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Below is an example of a great resume for you first coding job, during this article we go over each part of the document with explanations and examples:
Previous experience makes everything, you need to be able to add some into your resume to look better, and this is an example of how your freelance job could look like:
1Title: 2Freelance Web Developer at MyCompany Media 3 4Description: 5Responsible for designing, coding and modifying React applications and Python APIs from layout/mockups/wireframes to functional and according to a client's specifications. Strive to create visually appealing sites that feature user-friendly design and clear navigation.
☝️ DO NOT COPY AND PASTE, please customize it, use different words, different technologies and programming languages that you like, you can talk about eCommerce apps, edTech, you can mention particular industries that you like.
If your final project was a game, you can say you are specialized in building games with HTML/CSS/Javascript/Python. If it was a social network than you are specialized in building "social apps", etc. If it was a tutoring site, you can say you are focused on edTech.
Enhanced versions of some of the projects you built at the academy, for example:
Each of your projects must have:
☝️ Quality is more important than quantity, just two or three projects in enough if they are really good.
These are the most important most wanted technologies:
1HTML5/CSS3, Bootstrap, Javascript ECMAScript 2020, Node.js, GIT/Github, Python, Flask, API's, React.js, Flux, SCRUM, SQL, SQLAlchemy, MySQL, Postgress API's
You also learned these secondary technologies that my be use-full depending on what company you are applying to:
1Heroku, Markdown, Use Stories, Data-Structures, Data-Modeling, REST, MVC, Event oriented programing, The DOM.
Additionally these are good technologies that we don't teach during the 16 weeks but will be easy to learn and add a lot of value to your resume:
1Unit testing, jQuery, Gatsby.js, SSR, AWS, Firbase, WordPress, React Native.