Five Reasons You Need A Software Development Portfolio

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Greetings prospective employee! Thank you for applying for the job opening that we have posted. Let me take a quick glance at your resume.

Hmmm. Nice. OK. Good. A little light over there, but looks like some solid strengths over here. Not bad.

What else ya got?

It is awesome that I read your resume because that means that you made it past the initial weed-out. Now as a hiring manager I am going to set your resume down in a stack of dozens of other very similar resumes and go on about my day.

Let’s get on the same page about one thing right now. It is going to be extremely hard for you to impress me or rise about the rest of the crowd just by what you put down on one or two sheets of paper.

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Sorry to burst your bubble. There are no magic words, images, formatting, or pixie dust that you can sprinkle on your resume to make it wondrously stand out.

Also, even if you are sitting there sprinkling something on your paper resume in hopes that it will help, please be aware that I haven’t handled a paper resume in years. I prefer PDFs. And I can’t stand word docxs.