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Summary: If your goal is a software development position, I would move "Highlights" above "Experience", move "Professional Skills" to the bottom of "Highlights"
by midnightmonster 12y ago
Summary: If your goal is a software development position, I would move "Highlights" above "Experience", move "Professional Skills" to the bottom of "Highlights" (who doesn't say they have excellent communication and teamwork skills?), and use either a nice resume template or a more favorable creative presentation.
I had to look at it three or four times before I could get past the presentation to actually read the resume.
The codepen presentation shows me that you are able to write basic HTML and CSS. These are useful skills, but not enough to get you in any door that I might be operating. If the design was good, this method of presenting might work to your advantage, but it's neither pretty nor easy to read and it shows mainly that you have not yet developed valuable design sense or taste. There are lots of jobs (development and otherwise) you can have without those, but it hurts your resume to draw attention to your probably-irrelevant weak points.
Alternatively, if you'd written it all in JavaScript using some trendy framework, I would at least see you as a programmer. If the code was clever or elegant, I would be interested even if the output wasn't very pretty.
I had to look back yet again to get past the experience section. The experience section made me think of you only as a sysadmin/network admin. I've looked at this five or six times now before I got to anything that would make me think of you as a possible developer.
- gr3yh47 12y agothanks. i took your advice about moving stuff around.