Career Development

CV

This CV section is relevant for people applying to jobs within the UK.

Best practice

• Keep it short and concise, 1-2 pages maximum
• Put your details at the top. Only these details are necessary:
  • Name
  • Email
  • Phone number
  • Your city (not your full address since this is personal information! If they need it they'll ask for it later)
• Use the following sections, and only populate them with relevant details starting from the most recent first
  1. Summary (optional)
  2. Skills
  3. Employment
     • Use action verbs for each bullet point (see: https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/resumes-cover-letters/action-verbs-to-make-your-resume-stand-out)
     • Show your accomplishments, with numbers if you can (e.g. Improved landing page time to interactive by 50%)
  4. Education (this can go above Employment if the last thing you did was education and not work)
  5. Personal projects
  6. Interests (optional)

Resources

CV guides

• https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/get-a-job/cv-sections
• http://www.energizerecruitment.co.uk/software-developers-guide-writing-cv-2017/

CV samples

• https://www.livecareer.co.uk/cv-search/r/front-end-web-developer-31839afbd6b640429d637cdda953561c
• https://www.livecareer.co.uk/cv-search/r/front-end-developer-00fdd3a63d27437d899f94a70df420be
• https://www.brookes.ac.uk/students/careers/students-and-graduates/cv-guide/mature-graduate-cv/ — useful reference for people with gaps in their CV

Interviews

General interview questions

• https://www.wisebread.com/how-to-answer-23-of-the-most-common-interview-questions

Technical interview questions with answers (intermediate-level)

• https://github.com/30-seconds/30-seconds-of-interviews
• https://github.com/FAQGURU/FAQGURU

Questions to ask the company

• https://github.com/Twipped/InterviewThis — some of these questions are great, but some are not so good

Live interview practice

• https://www.pramp.com/

Personal projects

Personal projects are a good way to build up your portfolio of code projects on Github. They are very useful for employers to see how you code and also demonstrate your enthusiasm.

Inspiration for personal projects

• https://github.com/florinpop17/app-ideas
• https://github.com/karan/Projects

Walkthroughs of projects

• https://github.com/tuvtran/project-based-learning
• https://javascript30.com/

Contributing to open source

Easier open source issues for people starting with open source contribution

• https://github.com/MunGell/awesome-for-beginners
• https://firstcontributions.github.io/

Other

• Tips for creating your own portfolio website
• Career tips from HackYourFuture, a refugee code school in Amsterdam