#Latest version of self-taught FE web dev

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spring junco
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Although I have no real professional experience as a web dev yet, I'm trying to get across my potential. That's how I see myself "winning" a job position. My experience in work and management, the coding skills are the only thing holding me back right now.

I will be finishing up a lot of projects next(getting this resume skeleton and website portfolio out of the way and in my back pocket.)

The web portfolio site (in header) is not live yet.

Any feedback is appreciated, but ideally would like thoughts on summary section and experience at Bed Bath and Beyond. I'm struggling with both of these sections wording to try to make it more web dev appealing.

Thanks for any help!

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feral elbow
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for your cost reduction initiatives.. how much cost.. did u reduce?

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can delete independent OTJ training bullet

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“Coded Developed a discord bot to notify members of high priority messages using …..???”

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in your skills section, you list a lot of things that are not reflected anywhere in the resume. Where and how did you gain these skills?

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can delete your summary or at the very least, drastically reduce it to 1-2 very short and concise sentences. Many employers are not reading summaries, let alone ones that are a paragraph long

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the way your work experience is set up is a little confusing

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I would just do

Support Representative - Tickets Bot
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Co-Founder - Furus Mint Club

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can drop the links to the businesses

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can also drop the italicized sentence and actually add it to the bullet points

spring junco
spring junco
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Appreciate you taking the time to look by the way

feral elbow
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little to no recruiters are visiting websites

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yes you most definitely will need to add the projects to your resume

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you wouldnt really pass a resume screen as it stands now

spring junco
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Do recruiters look at projects? Is my assumption that recruiters are more HR people than tech people?

winter pier
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well its either exp or projects ahahah

feral elbow
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they look at whats on ur resume

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will they visit a link to a project? probably not

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you need to have the projects listed

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rn you just list stuff you know but theres no actual physical evidence on the resume that you know these things

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please review the pinned post and look at the google doc. There are some example resumes that you can take a peek at and see how people are formatting their projects and things.

spring junco
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So SUMMARY, PROJECTS, SKILLS? Or just PROJECTS, SKILLS?

Or make it two pages? I think for entry level it might benefit me if they knew I wasn’t straight out of school and have tons of work experience, no?

spring junco
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Alright. I’ll make the calls. Thanks again!

feral elbow
feral elbow
spring junco
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We discussed it very shortly here: #1014903518215278673

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Without summary or skills that's 1.5pgs if put projects in... so I could cut a work experience position out, and maybe cut a project or two out go to 1 page?

feral elbow
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i see

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yeah. You can probably either sacrifice 1-2 of the experiences and/or probably chop it down and have only 1-2 bullets. And also condense the actual like…. layout of the work experience a bit like i mentioned earlier

spring junco
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yeah. moving the position to side of company will save me 4 lines

feral elbow
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if you go the route of sacrificing a job or two, remember you can always bring these things up during an interview but for the purposes of actually getting to an interview, they will want to see some more of your technical skill 😄

spring junco
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I could move more experience and summary to a cover letter, if the company requests one?

feral elbow
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ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that should work yeah but also beware not many companies are asking for cover letters and some of the ones that are, are not even reading them so you can throw one together but I wouldnt spend tooooo much time trying to like perfect it or anything.

As for ur first comment, im not too sure what you mean by that. I believe you should keep coding and keep working on some nice, semi-original projects to really showcase your technical skills. We’re not too much worried about soft skills since your work experience takes care of that. Just keep working on some nice projects

spring junco
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I meant like "oh, well coding is the only thing holding him back from being a senior or team lead - we can get him there down the line. Seems to be a quick learner and looks to innovate, so let's get him in. We'll probably see a great return from 6-12 months."

or don't bank on that... just realize I'm starting over from the bottom and work my ass off to gain skill and knowledge.

feral elbow
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does that answer your question?

spring junco
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yes. Thank you so much for being here! Really appreciate you KJ

Up above I meant due to my management and owner experience. But this industry and this position - it just doesn't matter most likely...

Need to prove I can do it well, before anybody cares.

feral elbow
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oh yeah you’re pretty much starting from scratch. Being a senior engineer and/or a team lead (and beware that some titles are inflated at companies) but yeah its a whole different ball game

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your experience leading and having experience with like customer facing projects will definitely be of use BUT I personally wouldnt go as far to say “oh if they had maybe 1-2YOE at a SWE job (for instance), they would be team lead or senior eng ready” but again titles are inflated at some companies so there are a few companies where you CAN be a team lead in 1-2 years. It all depends

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i can really only go off of my experience, my job currently you would be nowhere near a senior eng status but i reviewed a resume a few weeks ago where somebody got team lead after about 1.5 yrs or so out of school so 🤷🏽‍♀️

spring junco
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Yeah I get ya...

Hey thanks again for all your input, hope things are going well for you!

I appreciate the feedback!

spring junco
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@feral elbow - no rush at all, but what do you think of this instead?

This is a photo, so no need to download - and there is margin on top and bottom in real file...

I will edit the Projects section when I've completed the others I'm working on (few different e-commerge/gallery sites, and some other things.)

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feral elbow
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looks tons better!

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i would decrease the left and right margins a tinnnnyyyy bit

spring junco
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just fixed some mistakes (added position to Furu's Mint Club job, and replace"(project below)" on tickets bot project to "being opened"

feral elbow
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and left align your skills section it looks a bit funky as its the only thing centered and the headers in general maybe(?)

spring junco
spring junco
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I'll fix the right side now

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feral elbow
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some of the bolding doesnt really make sense IMO, like “develop app” isnt really worth bolding.

For your project bullets, i would work on incorporating the languages/technologies into the actual bullet! I think it makes the projects sound more structured and gives the non-tech recruiters and even tech ones more of an idea of what you used and how it was used. For example,

  • Developed an app for loan specialists to automate loan calculation using React, and Bootstrap.
  • Created user friendly form to input loan details and export data to a CSV, increasing speed to calculate loans by 20%

or whatever the app does

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people also usually bold metrics, or languages/technologies