In this video, we're going to go over how to create a web developer resume.
So in the previous lessons, we've gone over the entire course as far as understanding how to become
web developer, how to develop the skills, as far as creating the various projects, how to use HTML
cyesis right.
All of the different skills that require you to become a web developer.
You've essentially learned and developed through this particular course.
Now we're ready to go out there and either, you know, look for a particular job and, you know, develop
a resume and or also if you want to go out there and start freelancing, we're going to cover that in
this particular section as well.
But in this particular lesson, we're going to walk through how to set up a resume.
If you're looking to get a web developer job, let's go right ahead and jump in here.
So this is an example here, as you can see on the right hand side of how to create a web developer
resume.
Now, the thing you want to keep in mind here is that you want to keep it as short as possible.
You want to try to make it one page, because if you're making it with multiple pages and you have,
you know, two to three different pages of all the stuff that you've got going on, oftentimes recruiters
will, you know, just skip over because they want to be able to make things very easy and simple for
them.
So they want to just screen and take a look at your resume real quick, kind of look at your accomplishments
and then, you know, see if you are a fit to go on to the next stage.
So another thing you want to keep in mind here is that a lot of times resumes are oftentimes going through
the, you know, particular computers in particular I.
And they don't actually get to individuals where they're manually being read and taken look at until
after they've passed a prescreening through some sort of algorithm.
Right.
Or some sort of mechanism that, you know, make sure that you have the right keywords in there that
actually verifies that you have the right type of experience, the right type of keywords.
Right.
And they'll filter this typically, like I mentioned, through the keywords, through your experience.
And then after you pass that kind of preliminary stage, right.
Then you're actually going to have somebody manually review your resume to be able to get you on a call.
And so how you want to set this up here as far as for your experience and your resume at the top, you
want to put your name, your location, you want to put your LinkedIn email, phone number, plus your
website address, because obviously as a web developer, you must have or, you know, if you don't
have a website, then you're doing yourself a major disservice.
So you want to have a website of your own that, you know, maybe some kind of blog that showcases your
portfolio, your experience.
Having a website is extremely important for yourself because, you know, if you are getting into web
developer type of position and you yourself don't even have a website, that's not going to be sitting
very well with employers or, you know, freelancers or contractors or, you know, whatever kind of
road you're looking to take, it's not going to sit well as you being somebody who is trying to run,
you know, your own business or trying to actually run your own self as a business, because believe
it or not, when you are going out there looking for a job as an individual, you're essentially positioning
yourself as a product.
Right, as a business because you're marketing yourself as such.
Right.
Your resume.
That's essentially you, you know, selling yourself, selling yourself as a product, as a service
to an organization.
So you want to make sure that you have a website and you're actually able to showcase your skills,
your background, your knowledge and, you know, some work there.
So make sure you have this information at the top there.
And then under that, you want to put your technical skills.
You want to make sure you have the same skills that are mentioned in the job postings.
So this is critically important here whenever you are applying to a specific position.
Right.
And they have certain criteria and certain skills that they're listing on the application, you always
want to make sure you have the exact type of words.
Right keywords in there, because as I mentioned and our first point here, a lot of times these applications
are being reviewed by computers, by algorithms.
Right.
And if you don't have the right kind of keywords in there right now, you typically not going to pass
that first round where, you know, the actual algorithm looks at your resume, filters you out by keywords
and then put you on to the next stage.
So making sure you have the right keywords there that are associated with the position and that your
skills.
Right.
Are reflected upon your resume that have to do precisely with what the actual job description entails.
Right.
Because if you have an application that or, you know, some kind of job description out there that
you're looking to apply for, that says, you know, we want X, Y, Z experience and you're putting
A, B, C experience and you're not really showing the individual recruiters or individual, you know,
employers how your skills directly are able to connect with and are associated with what they're asking
for.
As far as for the, you know, the job description skills, you're going to have a hard time being able
to get past even the first round because you want to make sure that your resume is talking to what the
actual, you know, description and what the actual job description is talking about.
So next thing here, you want to avoid subjective quality, such as organized, hard worker, detail
oriented.
Right.
These are all going to be things that are very, very subjective.
Right.
Just like saying I was the best worker on my team.
I was the most organized, you know, individual on my team or whatever that may be.
Right.
Because you know the best of what?
According to who or, you know, in comparison to what.
Right.
Organize.
You were the best organized or the most hardest worker compared to what right, so you want to make
sure that your specific and the quality should be shown through your work project experience.
OK, so and here's a reference here where you can actually go and use this template here, change it
around so that you can create your own resume.
And oftentimes the situation is going to depend as far as you wanting to create maybe just one resume
or have several specific resumes that are talking to each particular job.
The way that I would work it is if I'm looking to, you know, apply to various jobs and they're all
kind of, you know, similar.
But some are asking or requesting certain skills.
I would go in there and modify and adjust each particular resume that I am, you know, submitting to
each particular position.
Now, if you are maybe working with a recruiter or with somebody that can, you know, place you in
a particular position, then you can oftentimes just give them a, you know, overall resume of your
experience.
Right.
Like something like this here is great because it shows that this individual here has senior web developer
experience with end web development experience.
Right.
And so, you know, this individual here could easily get a position, you know, with like a startup
or, you know, an organization that's looking for a web developer.
Now, if you are looking to, like I said specifically, go out there and apply to various jobs yourself
individually, make sure that your resume is talking to and specific to that particular job description.
Because if not, and you're just creating one resume and submitting it to all of these different positions,
your response rate is going to be extremely low.
So want to make sure, like I said, you are creating a resume.
You have a good kind of framework and foundation, say, here.
But when you're applying for various jobs and you're doing it yourself, make sure that you're adjusting
it, modifying it to cater to that specific job.
Right.
And what it's actually asking for, for you to have as far as a skill.
So that's going to be here for this one.
And we'll see you on the next one.