How to Get a Tech Job in 2022

pcmag.com:

Although tech job hiring surged in 2021, recruiters continue to complain about a dearth of skilled people to hire and the high number of employees who are quitting as part of the Great Resignation, particularly in the tech sector. Human resource professionals are looking to address these difficulties in 2022, and they're going about it in a variety of ways. So if you're looking to get hired, make sure you're drafting off at least some of these trends.

One of the most notable new developments is that many recruiters are now willing to overlook your curriculum vitae (CV), which details your academic background. In Europe, the hiring process often requires a CV as a separate document to be sent in with your resume. On this side of the pond, it's usually at the bottom of the resume. Either way, recruiters are starting to overlook where you went to college and instead focus on skills-based assessments, particularly for developers and IT professionals.

A recent survey by CodinGame queried 14,000 developers and tech recruiters from 131 countries on the current global job market. It asked recruiters whether they had considered putting less emphasis on an applicant's formal education. Surprisingly, 57% of recruiters said they'd be willing to do just that, claiming that the measure would not only open up hiring possibilities for a broader pool of applicants but also ensure that those applicants had the necessary skills to do the job.

In fact, 40% of those recruiters said they had already hired technology professionals who didn't possess formal qualifications in technology—particularly programming. That's good news for a large chunk of CodinGame's professional respondents, who said they didn't learn to program through a formal