I usually look for any signs of not being a left brained drone. E.g. nice typography, mention of creative hobbies, maybe a picture of you doing something fun,

I usually look for any signs of not being a left brained drone. E.g. nice typography, mention of creative hobbies, maybe a picture of you doing something fun, open source work etc. I generally don't care about anything you have done 6 months or more ago (degrees) and It's important to me that you are fun to spend time with. In fact open source is really key. Anyone who spends their free time doing coding is probably very passionate and will likely make a great employee. For the current programmer position I just posted I simply asked people for their GitHub profile as an experiment. I got more then 70 applications.