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Kacper Turowski • Edited

The preposterousness of recruiters and pro devs thinking that Github profile readme is just for them 😁

We don't care what you listen to on spotify, we don't care about flashy images, and we don't care about your life here. That's what cvs and personal websites are for.

Arguably, cvs are not necessarily for what I listen on Spotify and definitely not for flashy images. And my cv and Linkedin profile are for recruiters. My profile on Github is for me and I'll put whatever I want in there, for other devs wanting to actually connect to see.

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Keff

I never thought github profiles are for recruiters nor pro developers, but the posts says how to create a pro github profile, which I don't think this overdone readme is. Just my opinion though! Of course feel free to put whatever you want to, just note that it mighht have a negative impact when looking for work (or maybe not)...

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Kacper Turowski

If my potential employer won't want to hire me because I said that - for example - I do Tarot readings in my free time, it's 💯 an employer I do not want to work for.

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Keff

Fair enough, I'm not a recruiter by the way! I might've written it weirdly but I was refering to the life information and experience would be in the CV, not spotify and so on. Of course you can put whatever you want in your profile, my problem was calling it pro...

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Kacper Turowski

In their defense, the title says "cool github profile", I didn't even notice them saying it's also "pro" in the body 😁 full-on agreed!

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Keff

They must've changed since I wrote the comment! I kinda feel a bit bad now!