Re:Doesn't work for me (Score 1)

It's more to do with the country/region you're trying to look for a job in. Here in India, freelancing, internship, FOSS work does nothing to impress most employers. Quote one manager: "It cannot be counted as valid experience since I'm sure you must not have handled major responsibilities as you would now in a full time job". Yeah, single-handedly migrating applications from Oracle to PostgreSQL and deploying them into production in 2 weeks is not a job requiring responsibility.

I show off my FOSS (ayttm, antidialer) work more prominently than my day job experience, partly because I feel it's more important to me and partly because I want to be sought by employers who understand the relevance of FOSS contributions. But since FOSS contribution has not caught on as much as other parts of the world, most managers dismiss them as "college projects".