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How to increase your chances of landing interviews

Aashir Khan on February 23, 2020

Every developer, designer or marketer thinks of getting a job at well-known and huge organizations like Google, Facebook, LinkedIn or Netflix, but ...
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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

An additional advice from me:

To build your stunning one page resume, don't waste time trying to make something that looks good in Microsoft Word. Instead be a lazy programmer and rely au automation:

  • Git clone this repository
  • Edit resume/data.yml
  • $ npm install && npm run dev
  • Open localhost:8080/home in your browser

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πŸ‘” πŸ’Ό Build fast πŸš€ and easy multiple beautiful resumes and create your best CV ever! Made with Vue and LESS.


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πŸ‘” πŸ’Ό Build fast πŸš€ and easy multiple beautiful resumes and create your best CV ever

Made with Vue and LESS.



Prerequisite

  1. It is required to have Node.js with version 8.5.0 or higher. To see what version of Node.js is installed on your machine type the following command in the terminal:
node -v
  1. If you do not have installed Node.js in your machine then go to this link in order to install node.

How to use

  1. Clone this repository.
git clone https://github.com/salomonelli/best-resume-ever.git
  1. Go to the cloned directory (e.g. cd best-resume-ever).

  2. Run npm install.

  3. Customize your resume in the resume/ directory: edit your data data.yml and replace the default profile-picture id.jpg with your picture. Rename your picture as id.jpg and copy it in the resume/ directory.

  4. Preview resumes with npm run dev. The command will start a server instance and listen on port 8080. Open (localhost:8080/home…





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Aashir Khan

Thanks, this is really awesome. You just added more value to this post. I'll add this to my free resources list/

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

Glad I could help.

best-resume-ever is a great tactic.

Strategy is even more important, so if you are wondering what to put in your resume, read this:

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RΓ©my πŸ€–

I think the best way to land a job at Google is buy a satanic bible, pray the devil and burn virgins on a stick. Apparently it's similar for Facebook but I don't dare write it in here.

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard • Edited

Honestly the best way to handle companies that have a broken byzantine hiring process that rejects tons of good candidates ist simple:

Do not apply at those companies.

You will waste lots of time, feel like shit, and what is the upside for you considering that you could apply instead at companies that do this better?


But what is the second best way if you really want to work there?

Consider that there are two separate questions:

Do you think you would be good at the job itself? If not, don't apply.

If you think you would be good at the job itself, then realize that lots of good people have been rejected for dumb reasons.

rejected.us/

I like personally how

  • Chris Wanstrath, co-founder of GitHub was not good enough to work at Yahoo
  • Kyle Simpson, the author of You don't know JS was rejected at Facebook because he didn't know enough JS

So be cynical and consider the hiring process as an obstacle you should work around.