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📝 Writing a professional resume: Ultimate guide

Arthur Kh on January 23, 2024

As I wrote in my previous article about the importance of a Resume, almost everyone needs one. I've also provided some key points you should follow...
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Daniel Rendox • Edited

What do you think about portfolio projects?

People who are looking for their first dev role usually describe them in the form of a work experience section.

One of my friends told me they no longer matter as soon as you get some work experience. Indeed, it probably doesn't fit on your resume any longer but I think it's worth including links to your portfolio website or the projects themselves so that a potential employer gets the picture of what you've been working on besides the raw text in the resume.

Lol, saw this post while writing this, which is literally my idea:

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Arthur Kh

I have my portfolio in my CV, but it's just a link because I have more than enough of commercial experience. Commercial work experience is valued way more than any pet-project, EXCEPT your pet project generated some revenue or has plenty of users. In that case, you can even include it in your CV.

If you don't have commercial experience, you can include even a basic CRUD pet-project like To-Do List App. However, you will have to

  • Create a great README file for it in GitHub with instructions
  • Spend some time on the design/implementation to make it more special (for example: making a Trello app like clone with real-time updates)

Please don't use To-Do List App as an idea or google for "App ideas", they're in most cases very common. Ask your friends what problems they have and try to solve them with the software. It will also help you on improving requirement collection soft-skills

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Georgexp97

A good CV is essential when it comes to finding a job.

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Arthur Kh

Totally Agree

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Arthur Kh

You're welcome to share your outstanding resumes 🤩

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Benoit COUETIL 💫

If you graduated in 2022 and are already a Senior Full-Stack Developer 1 year and a half later, what will you do the remaining 40 years of your working life ? 😅

dunning-kruger

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Arthur Kh • Edited

I've started working since high school and worked while studying in university because I saw more sense in programming, earning money, and having fun than studying "Basics of standartization". Now I think it was wise desicion for me.
My current plan is to share my experience in tech blog, mentor everybody who asks, and work at my full-time job
My future plan: build a house with garage, where I can do all my crazy DIY experiments, grow a passive income source, and probably start some volunteering (I have a couple of ideas in my backlog)

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Daniel Rendox

THAT'S the right mindset one should have about a CS degree.

Greetings to my fellow compatriot!

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Arthur Kh • Edited

Thanks a lot! I just treated my university as a hobby, and it really helped me. I was less stressd I just studied what was interesting to me like math/electronics/cs, and even participated in some olympiads. All other disciplines I finished at ok level just by improving soft skills by taking conversations with professors :D

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Jimmy Anderson

Yes, I agree with you that making resume in this manner will help a lot. But if we are going to make a resume for LinkedIn not for educational skillset but for other freelance skills like content writing, we should make a resume on docs document or on canva. Like we should design it or simply made it? What about Portfolio? How we are going to make portfolio for LinkedIn?

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Abdul Sami

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