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I actually just watched this Pluralsight course:

https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/successful-technical-int...

Short, easy to consume and full of great advice.

I would focus on the soft skills & cultural fit area and leave technical and managerial skills to other interviewers.

The reason for this is that as a junior developer, you won't probably be able to technically challenge a candidate with many more years or experience.

Also make sure you ask for advise to other interviewers in your company, people is always happy to share the way the interview candidates and everyone has a different approach that we can learn from.

Exactly. This is also the conclusion I got to. Detailed planning is great in order to tell your mind the direction you want to go to but then it's important to discard it so that you don't get lost in the details or feel frustrated because you are unable to follow every step of it, which may lead to demotivation.

What are you willing to sacrifice? If you really want to make it a priority you will have to sacrifice something. Do you spend too much time watching netflix? playing video games? reading news? Start replacing these things for career improvement activities.

Be smart with the learning activities you choose. Side projects? probably not the best option since they require a lot of your time. Books, podcasts, video courses? That sounds more feasible since they are things you can squeeze in at any moment of the day.

Also keep in mind that learning is about quality and not quantity. It does not matter that you spend 5 hours coding on a side project if you are solving the same problem over and over.

Lastly, make sure you have a learning activities list ready so that you always have something to start working on and don't have to waste your time thinking about what's next.

I agree with most things:

- Education goes at the bottom and tech skills at the top.

- Proficient and 'other' don't make much sense to me. I would actually remove the 'other' section, unless you are applying for a job in one of the technologies listed in that section.

- Remove the additional experience, it does not provide much value for a dev job.

- There is something with the resume that makes hard to get an idea of who you are and what you are looking for.

- Remove the word "technical" from technical projects, it's implicit if you are applying for a dev position.

Also make sure you tailor the resume for the position you are applying to. Ideally you should have a different version of your resume for each position you are applying.

I would pay a recurring subscription for an only audio Youtube app. This app should:

- Let me create playlists.

- Keep track of the audio progress.

- Work offline.

There is so much valuable content in Youtube that I would like to consume but that I don't make the time to actually sit down and watch the video. The video component of this content is irrelevant to me and being able to listen to the audio on the go would be really neat.