# Get a Tech Job Without a Degree: Prove Skills > No degree, or new to tech? Turn adaptive assessments, live sessions and projects into dated skill evidence a hiring manager can follow back to the work. Source: https://getlemma.io/solutions/career-switchers Many tech roles no longer ask for a degree, but without one you need another way to show what you can do. Build it on Lemma: assessments, live sessions with practitioners and the projects you ship become dated evidence on a Skills Passport. [How evidence is evaluated](https://getlemma.io/methodology) ## A certificate shows you finished. Evidence shows what you can do. Hiring still leans on titles and credentials, and both describe your past. When you are new to a field, the most relevant thing about you is what you can do now, and that is the hardest part to show. A Skills Passport keeps a separate record for each skill. Every record names its evidence, its source and the date it was demonstrated, so a reviewer can follow a skill back to the work. Read how this compares with [certifications](https://getlemma.io/compare/certifications). ## Two starting points, one problem. Whether you are changing field or just finished a course, you have the skills and no track record a stranger can check. ### Switching careers You have years of work behind you, just not in this field. The job title on your CV does not match the role, so it gets filtered out before anyone sees what you can do. - Show the new skill directly, without a matching title - Keep evidence for the skills you bring from your last career - Let a reviewer see how quickly you are progressing ### Graduating from a bootcamp or degree Your certificate says you finished the programme. So do the certificates of everyone else in your cohort, and a reviewer cannot tell from it which of you can do the job. - Add your certificate, then show the skills behind it - Turn capstone and portfolio projects into linked evidence - Keep building the record after the course ends ## Building a record from where you are There is no prerequisite and no fixed timeline. Each step adds evidence the next one builds on. 01 ### Choose the skills your target role needs Pick them from the skill catalogue, including skills you already have from your last career or course. 02 ### Set a baseline with an assessment An adaptive assessment places you at a level. A modest first result is fine: it is the starting point a reviewer will compare against. 03 ### Practise in live sessions Work through real problems with practitioners in live sessions. Completed sessions are recorded as evidence for the skill you practised. 04 ### Ship something and connect it Link the projects you build, from course capstones to your own work, so each skill points to something real. 05 ### Share your Passport with applications Send a link alongside your CV. A reviewer sees the skills you chose to publish and the evidence behind each one. ## Support while you learn ### AI tutor between sessions Practise with the AI tutor when no session is booked. It works through exercises with you and adapts to the gaps it finds. ### Progress you can show Records keep their dates, so your Passport shows how a skill developed over time, not just where it stands today. ### Teach what you already know Your previous field is worth something. Teach it in sessions, earn Lemma Credits, and spend them learning the new one. ### Practitioners, not only instructors Sessions put you in front of people who use the skill at work, which is the closest thing to the job before you have it. ### Turn the course into proof Your course taught the skill; now show it. Take the skill's adaptive assessment, connect the projects you built and practise with the AI tutor, and the record shows what the course left you able to do. ### One record across fields Old and new skills sit on the same Passport, so a reviewer sees the whole person rather than a beginner in one subject. ## Questions from switchers and graduates ### Can you get a tech job without a degree? Many tech roles are open to people without a degree, but you need another way to show you can do the work. Hiring managers look for evidence: projects you built, results on a skills test and how you work with others. A Skills Passport keeps that evidence in one record you can share with each application. ### How do I show skills on a resume without experience in the field? List the skill, then point to evidence for it: a project link, an assessment result or a session rated by the practitioner you worked with. Add your Skills Passport link to the resume so a reviewer can open each skill and see the dated records behind it, instead of taking the line on trust. ### Can I build a Passport with no professional experience in the new field? Yes. Assessments, live sessions and projects do not depend on job titles. A skill record shows what you demonstrated and when, wherever you learned it. ### How does a Skills Passport relate to my bootcamp or degree certificate? Keep the certificate. It shows that you completed a programme. The Passport adds evidence for individual skills: assessment results, sessions rated by the practitioners you worked with and the projects you built after the course. ### What if my first results in the new field are low? That is normal and it is useful. Every record is dated, so a reviewer can see where you started and how the skill developed as you added assessments, sessions and projects. ### Do skills from my previous career count? Yes. Many switchers already have skills the new role needs, such as analysis, writing or stakeholder work. Add evidence for those too, so your Passport shows the whole person rather than only the new skill. ## Plan your next step [Browse the skill catalogueSee how each skill is defined and what evidence supports it.](https://getlemma.io/skills)[The AI tutorHow the tutor fills gaps between live sessions.](https://getlemma.io/product/ai-tutor)[Live sessionsHow sessions are booked, run and recorded as evidence.](https://getlemma.io/product/sessions)[Are certifications worth it?What a course certificate shows a hiring manager, and what dated evidence adds.](https://getlemma.io/compare/certifications)[Lemma and LinkedInEndorsements and profile skills compared with evidence you can open.](https://getlemma.io/compare/linkedin)[Adaptive skills assessmentsSet a baseline in the skill your target role needs, then retake to show progress.](https://getlemma.io/product/assessments) ![Painting of a waterfall pouring into a clear pool among mossy rocks and ferns](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/islu4peo/production/76223a89ee5f00ffa62886801dd86be45a0ca233-1680x1120.jpg?w=1080&fm=webp&q=68&fit=max) ## Start the record now, not after the job offer. 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