Ask HN: How do you switch domains / industries?

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In software development, it seems that many domains and industries prefer to hire people who have professional experience in that industry. In one particular case, I saw a job listing that strongly preferred people who had worked at a small set of competitor companies.

How does a developer manage to switch to a domain or industry completely outside their experience?

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I switched to Investment Banking when they where looking for Java people 20 years ago.

So this was a case of the demand for a tech skill outwaying the supply and therefore the banks didn't get to be too choosey.

So perhaps one way to switch would be to learn a tech skill and use that as leverage. i.e. Rust to get into blokchain/crypto.

Julia to get into Bigdata, AI and ML.

Kubernetes to get into DevOps/CI-CD etc.