Making an amazing resume

Below is an example of a great resume for your first coding job, during this article, we go over each part of the document with explanations and examples:

Employment History

• Do not add more than three past work experiences, unless they are really relevant or related to coding.
• You need software development experience.
• If you don't have coding experience: Start an internship (paid or unpaid) at a coding job in a great company or start/join a freelance project.

Why start an internship or freelance project?

Previous experience makes everything, you need to be able to add some to your resume to look better, and this is an example of what 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, and edTech, and 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 then you are specialized in building "social apps", etc. If it was a tutoring site, you can say you are focused on edTech.

Education

• If you have a master's degree or bachelor it's very good, you can also add the 4Geeks Academy education.
• Do not add your other small certificates (if any) in this section, that would be a different certifications section of the Resume.

Certificate

• Add any marketing or design certificates (because those are relevant to coding), do not add irrelevant certificates like Bartender or Event Planner.
• If you are certified in relevant software app design or business apps like Photoshop, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, etc.

Projects

• The projects you publish must be good quality, do not publish: A simple to-do list, a random card generator, tic-tac-toe, etc. None of that is impressive.

Enhance previous projects:

Enhanced versions of some of the projects you built at the academy, for example:

Star Wars Reading List: You can make this a social reading club, everyone has a password and shares their favorite.

• Contact List: Make the contact list a CRM, basically you add a "status" to each contact, and then the salespeople can change the contact status based on the sale process.
• Todo List: Todos don't need to have just two statuses: Done or Not done, you can make them have several like Not doing, Doing, Done, Approved, Rejected, etc. That will make your to-do list a project management tool with stages.

Each of your projects must have:

• Live link
• Readme description with screenshots.
• Organized code.

☝️ Quality is more important than quantity, just two or three projects are enough if they are really good.

The Skills

These are the most important most wanted technologies for Full-Stack:

1HTML5/CSS3, Bootstrap, Javascript ECMAScript 2020, DOM, GIT/Github, Python, Flask, APIs, React.js, Flux, SCRUM, SQL, SQLAlchemy, MySQL, Postgres

and for Data Science:

1Python, Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Data Science, Machine Learning, Exploratory data analysis (EDA), Webscraping

You also learned these secondary technologies that may be useful depending on what company you are applying to:

1Deploying, Markdown, User Stories, Data-Structures, Data-Modeling, REST, MVC.

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.

Additional resources:

• Create your resume online, for free: FlowCV.com or EnhanCV.com
• Amazing resume tips: FullStackResume.com