Writing your first post anywhere can feel harder to do than it should be. Right now, for instance, I feel as if I -really- need to get the right words in the right order, lest my future of dev.to-blogposting will start off with a flop. I want my post to be confident yet humble, funny yet serious. Readable without being clever about it.
I get the same feeling when I apply to jobs. I want the recruiter, client, or whoever is reading my application to find it interesting, just like everybody else. I want to stand out, but not too much. I want to be remembered.
I have just graduated from a coding bootcamp called in Stockholm, Sweden. 3 tough, intense months of tapping away at a keyboard to go from barely knowing what HTML is to making a fullstack application - and deploying it! We coded using mob programming, and at the end we got to decide on what our final project would be. We landed, after a moment of voting, on a cv-creator.
The project needed to be fullstack, meaning that frontend, backend and a database was needed. We wrote it using TypeScript, NextJS 13, MongoDb among other things. We had roughly 1.5 weeks to do it, going from nothing to a finished product that we could present not only to our fellow mobs but to the clients of that came to visit.
Our result was this -> https://cv-creator-three.vercel.app/
I can, without a shred of doubt, say that I am so, so proud of my mob. We have worked hard these 3 months, and the effort, strength, smarts and skills I've seen from my team has been inspiring and impressive. "Plan-B", as our mob is called, will always have a place in my heart (and LinkedIn/GitHub, of course).
In our project a user can log in using either GitHub or Google. They can then create a CV, saving that info, then choose a template/theme and download it as a pdf. We added a "helper" (read: chatGPT) that we named "Ceve" that can help the user write a good introduction. We even added a job-search-API that will allow the user to look for jobs.
1.5 weeks. 11 days. 264 hours of going from scratch to an application that I want to, and am going to, use myself. My passion for coding has only grown since I entered the bootcamp, and now at the end I feel it growing for every day.
Our application was made to make the process of searching for a job just a bit easier. A smidge, a crumb more fun. A modicum of relief in the jungle that is job searching. Hopefully it can help people stand out, allow users to send out our (beautiful!) CV's and help them find a job.
With a little luck my first post is as good as our project is, but truthfully, I am so proud of my mob (my friends!) and what we have achieved that even if my first post is read by no one I will still feel bliss thinking of the whole process. However, if you've read this far I thank you, and hope to see you out there. If you ever need a CV, you know where to go. Take care, double-check your commit-messages and have a lovely spring.
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