Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What you need to know As of 2026, recruiters and hiring managers ask for links — GitHub, live demos, deployed apps — before they read a CV. Titles and years of experience matter less than demonstrated shipping. A recruiter spends under ten seconds on a CV but engages roughly 80% more with a GitHub project that has runnable code or a live demo. The link is the interview's first round. Build fewer projects and go deeper. Three to four well-documented pieces beat ten shallow clones, because hiring managers scan for production signals, not a list of tools. Anchor the portfolio with a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) project — RAG is the most in-demand AI engineering skill as of 2026. Document each project around the problem, your approach, the metrics, the deployment, and what broke — in…
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