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How To Learn Coding Skills That Actually Get You Hired (Not Just Educated)

by Zubin Pratap

Sep 04, 2025

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Why Most Self-Taught Developers Never Get Interviews

The coding education industry profits from keeping you focused on endless technical learning.

Reason #1: They assume professional skills transfer automatically (they don't)

Reason #2: They focus on learning things instead of building things

Reason #3: They teach coding languages instead of engineering business solutions

Reason #4: They ignore the strategic skills that distinguish professional developers from hobbyists

Reason #5: They don't teach you how to present technical work to non-technical decision makers (super important in a post-AI world)

Here's the breakthrough: You can become hireable by mastering a much smaller, more focused set of skills than you think.

And much earlier than you think.

Here's how, step by step:

Step 1: Learn to translate technical concepts into business language

This separates professionals from hobbyists more than any coding technique.

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