I've always avoided being too elitist when it comes to a candidate's school/university when hiring people. Partly I guess because I didn't go to a particularly

I've always avoided being too elitist when it comes to a candidate's school/university when hiring people. Partly I guess because I didn't go to a particularly prestigious one myself. I guess my point is that it depends who is reviewing your resume and what their background is as to whether this really matters. For me I found that the best way to stand out when looking for a new position was to work on a side project. Sneakily my side project was a resume building app. Which meant I got a nice new resume out of the deal too. It definitely got me noticed and people came to me rather than me having to apply for jobs. I even got some telephone interviews for startups in the Bay despite being located in the UK. Overall I think if you build out some form of beta app and execute to a minimum viable product level of service then that's going to be a good thing for your chances of employment. So now for my shameless plug. I'm continuing to slowly bootstrap MightyCV - my resume creation app with hacker leanings. It has integrations with HN, github and StackOverflow along with some other cool features. You can see an example of what one looks like here: http://robeastham.mightycv.com http://robeastham.mightycv.com If you like the look of it you can sign up for a beta invite at: http://www.mightycv.com http://www.mightycv.com I'm hoping to redo the management interface over the next month or two and push out a largish update to the service along with some bug fixes.