Career-switchers to applied AI: "Let your work speak" is the worst advice

A practitioner who switched into applied AI argues that "let your work speak for itself" is the worst advice for career-changers, since recruiters judge you by your previous job title. Instead, you should proactively give them reasons to see you differently, and making existing work visible beats building yet another project.

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