One popular method, if you’ve got a programming job, is to write some automation tools or other minor, relatively language-agnostic projects in whatever language is buzzword-compliant at the moment. Wrote a few build scripts in Ruby? Congratulations, you’ve deployed Ruby infrastructure in a mission-critical environment.
This will usually come out once you’re talking to a human, but at that point you can talk about your personal projects and show off your actual knowledge of the language.
One popular method, if you’ve got a programming job, is to write some automation tools or other minor, relatively language-agnostic projects in whatever language is buzzword-compliant at the moment. Wrote a few build scripts in Ruby? Congratulations, you’ve deployed Ruby infrastructure in a mission-critical environment.
This will usually come out once you’re talking to a human, but at that point you can talk about your personal projects and show off your actual knowledge of the language.