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I started to include links to my website on my resume as it contained a lot more interesting work and code than my day job. It didn't seem to be helping, howev
by nigelsampson 16y ago
I started to include links to my website on my resume as it contained a lot more interesting work and code than my day job.
It didn't seem to be helping, however it turned out that most recruiters were scrubbing it from the version they passed on to prospective clients.
- jshen 16y agoapply to companies that don't use recruiters :)
- kgo 16y agoI'm at a start-up now, but before that I got sick of developing professionally and took a break. Probably because I was one of those people who didn't look good enough on paper, and only got through the resume pile at corporate jobs or body shops, and got fed up with the bs you see there. So after my break, I honestly listed that as 'funemployment' on the resume, with a brief human understandable explanation. (I actually was working on some of my own non-programming related projects, and explained as much.) In the email cover letter, I basically said "Here's my resume, but I think my website does a better job of explaining my real strengths as a developer." An interesting thing happened. Without exception, any company with an HR department totally blew me off. And without exception, any company where the owner screened the resumes, I got a phone screen and a real interview. I also think that's something where having a custom domain for your email really helps. If any tech-savvy person gets a resume from blah@not-gmail-or-yahoo.com, they're pretty much going to instantly open up a browser and type http://not-gmail-or-yahoo.com http://not-gmail-or-yahoo.com.
- nigelsampson 16y agoHaha that was certainly the lesson I took from that, however the market I'm in (Auckland, New Zealand) they're a necessary evil sometimes.