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Discussing all of this here is fine. However when you interview all you should talk about is "I graduated in December 2017 in CS program...I had work on some s
by Mc91 4y ago
Discussing all of this here is fine. However when you interview all you should talk about is "I graduated in December 2017 in CS program...I had work on some small freelance projects for friends in React and Android and currently working fully fledge ecommerce site for my cousin as business partners." That's all you should discuss initially, because that is what they care about and what they need to know about initially. If they have questions you can answer.
The only topic to bring up is at the end if they like you and make you an offer, make sure you tell the hiring manager that you will need some flexibility in your schedule as sometimes you need to handle family matters like take your parents to the doctor. Where I work, during WFH plenty of people take 30-60 minutes off to pick their kids up to school or whatnot. The only time to bring this up earlier is if they ask what you want in a job - then you can say some time flexibility for family matters.
If you're "currently working fully fledge ecommerce site" then you don't have a resume gap, you're working on an ecommerce site. You did freelance projects in React and Android before. I mean some people have a more impressive resume but it's not a 6 year gap.
If you think your current work isn't impressive enough, look on angel.co or something and tell some pre-seed or low seed company you'll work part time for them mostly for the experience, and for future recommendations if they like the work. Say you need to be paid something every two weeks but realize they are strapped and it does not have to be much. Tell them you'll work for two months and will then start interviewing (and continue working), but that you're junior and they might get three, four or more months of work from you.
They might have a web page, and/or app, and/or social media presence, and have gone through a small amount of seed already, and a real corporate setup with the state and so forth. So that future employers have something to see. It is a resume bullet (if companies ask why it's only 2-3 months initially say it is a consulting gig), and when companies ask what you're up to, you can honestly tell them what you've done - you just put in a feature for them on the website with ReactJS or whatever.
Also, you're promising them two months of work, but you can even interview elsewhere from day one, you just can't use this company as a resume bullet for two months. If you get lucky and get an offer within the first six weeks, just tell them you have become busy and will be dropping out somewhat, but will try to keep your promise of two months worth of work when you can.
There are no-seed, low-seed companies that operate like this. If they get lucky they get a good college student studying CS, or maybe a moonlighting experienced dev who wants to transition from backend to ReactJS or something like that.
- usrn 4y agoIt used to be super easy to get small dev tasks from Fiverr. I used to do that in college (and in the gap between college and getting hired.)