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Discussion on: If you're a frontend developer, How did you get your first job?

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Nedy Udombat

I had literally been neck deep in learning for about 5 months
and had just completed a remote internship at hotels.ng . It was hard looking for a job cause I had no portfolio, so i saw an opportunity to work as a volunteer for a company in my locality and remotely too. I decided to take the opportunity and I rebuilt the entire user interface of the company's website. With that in my portfolio, I started bidding for gigs on platforms and communities. The content of my portfolio was not enough but it was a start.

Advice: Strive to have a portfolio, because only then can you have massive influx of job opportunities.

Favorite tools: Text editor = Sublime Text; OS = Ubuntu Linux; Broswer: Chrome(chromium for linux); Github; google apps (docs sheets etc)