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It has happened to me that I was turned down for an engineering position whose main focus was working with a tool that I had developed the year before, because the other guy had a MSc and I didn't. HR people are weird.

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That is where I see a big value proposition in agents for engineers, even in "hot" markets: cutting through HR's crap. That doesn't change, no matter how hot or cold the market is. I feel like that has been part of my problem, not knowing how to finesse my way past those gatekeepers.

I still have trouble marketing my relevance to technical people, though. I don't have a very forceful personality, nor am I comfortable talking about myself without becoming (in my mind) a know-it-all douchebag. I need help and coaching on that front, too.

This is an interesting side effect of http://offerletter.io , I've noticed - we've been aggressively institutionalizing knowledge around many of these kinds of processes. Tends to give folks we work with a leg up.

(Incidentally - We offer precisely this kind of help and coaching - let me know if we can help! mallyvai at offerletter.io :)

Maybe you should have offered them a support contract instead :)

The credentialism in this industry is often infuriating though, I agree.

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