Platforms change,
judgment travels.
The question recruiters ask
Job ads ask for years of a named tool. Right now that tool is often , which bundles Power BI with data storage such as a . Few people have many years of it yet, because it hasn't existed for many years.
What a hiring manager really needs to know is whether you can do the work on whatever platform they run. That's a question about transferable skills, and you can show them.
Predict first: a recruiter asks "how many years of Fabric?" Which answer is strongest?
Pack for the move
Ten skills from building the report on Excel and . Tap the ones you think travel to a lakehouse with , then make the move.
Excel and Power Query
Lakehouse and Direct Lake
Six of the ten travel. The four that stay are tied to where the data lived and how it was loaded. Those you relearn in a week. The six took years.
The loop doesn't move
On a new platform the loop is the same: goal, spec, propose, build, validate, look, commit. What changes is the vocabulary inside the spec, such as table locations, storage modes and refresh. The on top, with its measures and relationships, barely changes at all.
Check: the project moves from Excel to a lakehouse. Which loop step changes most?
The rule, in one breath
Sell what travels. Show one move you've made, and the platform becomes a detail.
A small, real migration in your portfolio answers the "years of" question better than any number. That's what the sample project's Fabric move is for.
Next: your roadmap.