Most people trying to break into DevOps are studying the wrong 70 percent.

You are grinding Kubernetes, stacking another cert, maybe rebuilding the homelab for the third time.

Then you send applications and hear nothing back.

Here is the part almost nobody tells you.

Tech skills are about 30 percent of landing the job.

Not 30 percent of doing the job, you need real technical ability once you are in. But tech skills are only 30% of landing the job.

Think about the actual sequence of events between where you are today and a signed contract.

• You have to find the company that needs someone like you.
• You have to become known to them.
• You have to be convincing enough to get an interview.
• Then you have to be convincing enough to get hired.

Read that list again.

Not one of those steps is a technical skill.

That is why "learn Kubernetes and the rest will sort itself out" quietly fails for so many people.

The hiring game changed. A job posting now gets buried under hundreds of auto-generated applications within hours, sent from every corner of the world. I have asked recruiters and hiring managers about this at several companies over the past few years and they all describe the same flood.

Standing out of that stack by being slightly better at YAML is not a plan.

That is mistake number one.

I recorded a video about the four mistakes I see most in people who stay stuck.

The other three are the ones that surprise people.

Number two is the one I got wrong for years, and I still get annoyed when I think about the version of me who kept doing it.

Number three is the thing I make every private student fix before we touch the command line, before Linux, before any tech at all.

And number four turned into a story about my own life that I have almost never told publicly. I nearly cut it out of the edit.

​Watch the full breakdown here​

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Mischa

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