Ask HN: What does a good resume for web developer look like?

Posted by ge96 on Thursday October 06, 2016 @05:24PM
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I'm trying to get hired as a junior front-end web developer. I have experience, however not professional as in with a company. I freelance.

I'm also not using the latest/greatest. I'm a LAMPy still.

Stuff like Grunt, Git, Angular, Laravel/Symfony, I have yet to use/get good at.

I at the moment code "from scratch" HTML/CSS/JavaScript/PHP/MySQL and I do some back end stuff.

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Re:Ask HN: What does a good resume for web developer look like? by bocata_chorizo on Friday October 07, 2016 @08:14AM (#12659996)

Say in your personal statement that you have delivered real projects and also that you are keen to learn and grow. The ability to deliver real shit is better than being a dilettante that jumps from framework to framework doing TODO example apps - even though the latter might sound much more "pro".

Add links to your work. If you have a portfolio page with links to your work, add a link to your portfolio instead.

In terms of tech you only need jquery and git. Juniors are not expected to know a lot. Rather, they are expected to be keen to learn and improve on the job. It's an investment. Your employer is buying a seed instead of a tree.

Create a github account and follow the instructions. Also maybe check out the git lesson at codeschool, it's short. You can learn git in a few days. It's easy and absolutely necessary for everyday work.

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