Incoming Sophomore at state school. Is this good enough to get interviews?

[cold skiff]

@pale forum reposted

i put that just in case

i'll have to check but they're not very impressive

i have school's HW but they're done in less than a week

yea guess i should rename it 'Multiple Smaller Projects'

good idea pointing this out. i assumed people know i'm talking about my portfolio with projects in it

the projects are small in scale i can't find two bullet points each for them

basically exercise projects from my web dev courses lol

oh nice

thanks for the images

hmm alright

i'm gonna figure out how to make them two bullet points each

thanks for the advice. appreciate it

oh you're right looking back it is redundant

i think point 3 and point 5 could be rewritten to explain how it works. "configured blocked shadow DOM to be able to temporarily unblock website, Podomoro timer to block and unblock websites at set time intervals, and website analytics system to track time spent on each and all websites daily and weekly."

[chilly ember]

I would expand more (add more bullet points) on your research experiences

[cold skiff]

the part about my research exp is prob the best i could do lmao. idk what went wrong but for during my research, the labs im in just let me do grunt work/nothing substantial

[chilly ember]

In that case i would add another project

[cold skiff]

alright but i dont really have another project to put on

i can continue to make more project but im not sure if what i should do right now considering im only able to do LC easies atm

[chilly ember]

But at the end of the day, you can grind leetcode and projects as much as you want, but that's not what's gonna get your foot in the door. Reaching out and networking is what will help more than anything. I would leverage linkedin if i were you.

[cold skiff]

noted

idk how to reach out but that's prob googleable

[chilly ember]

Have a chat with @odd oar and what he's been able to do. He's been connecting and chatting with people on linkedin a tone, and has managed to get several responses and interviews, all while being in high school. work smarter not harder

[main ingot]

put 2006 person of the year, issued by Times Magazine

ez

[cold skiff]

lol pls share me what youve been doing @odd oar

i feel so clueless lmao ngl

[chilly ember]

All you have to do is find some companies and startups that you would be interested working for. Go on linkedin see the employees that work there, connect and message with hr,recruiters,devs,execs and ask how to get an interview while sending a short message to sell yourself. Worst case they don't answer or simply refer you to someone they know that could help you out, or they will reach out to people within their network etc etc...

the key here is soft skills.

but that's what gets you noticed, while building your network. people out here spamming thousands of applications thinking they will get noticed...lol

what i'm trying to say is even if you don't get an interview the person will be more than happy to help out give tips and advice and even connect you with other people or oppotunities that they think will help you. The power of networking is undefeated. If you allocate more time spamming cvs than reaching out to real people, you will have a much harder time

[cold skiff]

alright but the thing i feel like they just have no reason to just give you an interview just because you send some linkedin message to introduce yourself you know. but i get what you're saying and ill try to see if it works

also noted

yea i just fix typo and improve exercise solutions lol

not very impressive to detail what i actually did so i kept it vague instead

[chilly ember]

You're right they have no reason to give you an interview, if you can't sell yourself then you have no chance. But if you're telling me that you don't think this works while a high schooler is out here getting interviews then i dunno what to say lol

[cold skiff]

well you're right. guess i should try

oh okay i thought it's better to include more technical sounding word lmao

also noted

posting my resume here was a good choice lmao

pretty valuable advices

im limited on time and just don't know what project to do. it should be okay if the projects are complex but not original right

noted

noted as well

alright nice

alright

valid criticism

[odd oar]

yea sorry for late reply, had a hackathon lol. But yea, look for a company you want to work for (especially the ones that have interns at them), and connect w/ the people on linkedin that can get you a job there. For example, once I connected with another high school intern, and I got to the interview. Another time I connected with the founder of a medium sized game dev startup, and he referred me to the lead of the engineering thing (this is still in progress for me rn). I don't tend to get too many replies with emails, linkedin seems to be better

[cold skiff]

nice thanks

[cold skiff]

by the way what do you think about jira clone

[cold skiff]

probably dynamic

alright thank for the advice

ngl i don't really have any idea on what project to do at the moment but im gonna look something up

i think im just gonna copy what this person does

oh lol

[tall burrow]

I would recommend having one project based on the ChatGPT API. Recently, I created https://triptrio.co and had an initial phone screen with a Google engineer who seemed impressed with it. Of course, the way you present it is important, but it definitely works.

[cold skiff]

oh nice thanks for the suggestion

[limber temple]

gig em

[cold skiff]

alright i think i'm just gonna make an item market board for uni students

i mean facebook buy and sell group for uni students also exists but this can be an improvement

make it so that only people with verified uni emails can post and sell stuff

[woven hill]

How does this project work? Based on inputs, it generates a prompt for GPT, then parse the response?

[tall burrow]

Yes, I also have an npm package that allows taking snapshots and provides the option to download them as PDFs. Previously, I had implemented authentication so only logged-in users could download the PDF. Additionally, I had integrated a flight search feature through the Rapid API, which fetched the cheapest flights from Skyscanner. However, I temporarily commented out that code. I might add more realtime features using BARD APIs, not sure though.

[woven hill]

So with the users, you use Firebase or store on own DB?

Cool project tho

[tall burrow]

Firestore and Authentication

[woven hill]

Are you going to integrate a map in the future as well?

[cold skiff]

honestly pretty cool idea

[woven hill]

@cold skiff are you using a modified jake’s template?

[cold skiff]

it's a modified awesome cv template

though i can't post my template rn since it contains personal info that im too lazy to remove lmao