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⚡️ 7 quick actionable tips for your job search

Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard on November 30, 2020

7 tips to not undermine yourself, automate CV generation and scheduling calls, having nice photo and banners and launching your website and GitHub ...
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vaz • Edited

Really well done. I learned of some new things I hadn't thought of or known about. I appreciate the opinionated suggestions. If I wanted all the options I can just look them up myself, for some of these the answer is don't spend time thinking about it too much.

lol at the static site generator thing, I was "definitely going to do that" for a long time but luckily my instincts about falling into a time-sink would cry out in protest.

One can also just have a very simple and clean one-page site with links to the usual places, and if you want to write you can do it here or on Medium or wherever. Search up the names of some devs you look up to and see what their website is like if they even bother to have a stand-alone site. For the most part what looks professional and practical to me is an extremely simple page with a 2-sentence introduction, the 3-4 links that matter and with one (1) modest design gimmick that's trendy but not overbearing. I have a feeling it's not super important in the job hunt though and is probably rarely seen.

You don't need a static generator for one page of HTML.

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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard

Absolutely

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Shaiju T • Edited

Nice tips 😄 . Thanks for writing.