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Tips To Get A Job As A Developer

Pato on September 13, 2019

Hi Everyone! This is my first post! I hope some people find it helpful in landing their first job as a developer. I'm sure the following tips will...
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Mauro Garcia

Congrats for your first post! I'm in the same situation :D
About your post. I totally agree with your tips. Especially with 2, 7 and 8. It's super important to have an active presence on github and make contributions for the community.

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Pato

Amigo Mauro! What's is your post going to be about? and yes exactly! we have to give back to the community!

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Mauro Garcia

I already published it. It's about tailwindcss and Angular (how to integrate tailwindcss into Angular project without pain :D

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Pato

Niceeeeeeee def will read it

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lilimayon

Accept my congratulations for the first post! And it's really useful and cool :)
Just want to add that it's important to make an excellent resume. This 1resumewritingservice.com/ service often helped me. For all the time of the passages of interviews, I realized that a good resume is really important. Especially if you don't have much experience.

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teachingtechleads • Edited

Hey Pato, you made great points here and I wanted to reiterate a few of them.

1) I started at a private college here in the US, but ended up leaving and finishing my degree at a technical institute. In no way has that influenced my career in any way.

8-9) Yes. I have done plenty of interviews and I feel like I know the person across from me during the conversation when I have already read through their code examples and sample projects. Get your code out there. I don't care if it's just the step by step example from a udemy course or a simple start.spring.io/ shell that you strapped a few lombok controllers on top of. Let me see it all.

12-13) Totally agree. If during the interview process I can't tell that you're into learning and developing, you're not getting a call back. I don't care if you know the exact stack we use, because if you're clever and willing to dig in, you'll figure it out.

Keep up the good writing!

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Pato

Thank you much for th feedback. Specially coming from someone with the level of experience that you have!!

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Amin

Thanks for share your experience . almost near to 3 month i'm serious about get Job As junior developer but still i could not get one job. while i have resume website and portfolio on github .

really i got discourage, seems its very difficult

this is the link from my resume Website aminabolfathi.ir.
really i dont know what i should do ,i say thanks for any help
i love programmin

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Pato

I noticed you are a CTO. I have spoken to several CTO's in the past 3 years. None of them care about where you went to school.

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Fat-Tony

Thanks nice information

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Pato

Thank you sir!

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Abdulfatai Suleiman • Edited

Congrats on your first post, it impressive Thanks for the article am also searching for job i think this tips are going to help me, Thanks

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Hugo Cabrera

Hi!
Excellent first post. In point 3 you missed an 's' at your @.

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Pato

Gracias Hugo! Un saludo. Yo soy de León, Guanajuato

 
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Pato

I wish I could just hit retweet to this comment. You are 100% right

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Chukwuemeka Maduekwe

On April 01, 2022, Stack Overflow will no longer support Developer Story. You can download a copy of your existing Developer Story as a PDF if you wish to retain this information.

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Raj Kiran Chaudhary

Thanks a lot for these great tips. I still have to complete lots of things.....

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Pato

that's awesome!! welcome to the coolest community ever :)