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Ryan Latta • Edited

Hi Gabi! I think we've talked on twitter before?

Ok, so I'm going to give a few cliff notes about my recommendations. We can talk more about why I'm recommending what I am as well. Before I begin, I'm going to give advice that works in a US market, I'm not quite sure if it applies fully in Europe.

  1. Your goal is to get interviews. You need interviews to practice so that you get offers.
  2. Only put things in front of people that you want to be judged (Your site lacks SSL and browsers complain for instance)
  3. Your CV could stand some rework. You want it to tell me as fast as possible that you're a good fit.
    1. Instead of burying your skills in each job, put a selected skills section at the top so and everyone else can see you have the right ones.
    2. In your experience, its great you tell what the application is, but say about how you helped achieved some goals. Did you improve quality by removing bugs, did you help them get their first customer? Did you help them scale their infrastructure? Everyone writes code and uses frameworks, you need to show that you get results.
  4. Adjust your skills and which result-statements you present for EVERY job you apply to. You want it to be tailored to the job you're after.

Hope this helps, Let me know if you want to get into more detail.

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Gabi • Edited

Hi, I am looking for Europe market jobs mostly because there is such a big difference in timezones. Regarding SSL, I agree, it's on my list of changing :). Regarding my CV, I mostly worked in subsidiary companies from corporations, and information regarding business data or even bigger scope of features is not easily explained from the upper management. I don't know what was the impact of my work in numbers and usually, most of my colleagues did not know either. Thanks for the input, I do appreciate it.