Github is Your New Resume
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Github is Your New Resume
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Re: Github is Your New Resume
#2this may be true in startup land, where hires are evaluated by the engineers/managers/founders but it's absolutely not the case in the world of BigCorps. many recruiters (including internal ones) are less technical than anyone would like and have to operate on looking at key words in a resume before deciding what to pass along to managers. a github account with a bunch of code in it would be so confusing they'd just move on.
if you're looking for work, it's worth knowing how to put together a good resume just so it gets you by the HR department.
i've also had experience where i was required to write (non trivial) sample code with my application, only to find out months after i started the job that nobody even looked at it.
code samples and projects are great to have, and especially helpful if someone cares, but the resume isn't dead yet.
Re: Github is Your New Resume
#3I use zerply. The name is terrible but I like their service and don't see myself updating my "traditional" cv in the near future. That could change but I'll resist it.
Might be a nice recruiter filter too. If you tell them you don't have a resume and point them at your github or whatever else and it's not good enough you probably dodged a bullet. If they are fine with it then perhaps you found the proverbial needle in the haystack and could give the recruiter a chance.
Re: Github is Your New Resume
#4I came to this conclusion a while ago and tossed Github Badge (http://drnic.github.com/github-badges/) on my personal site.
Re: Github is Your New Resume
#5GitHub in particular is problematic for those of us that don't particularly use Git, and use other hosts for their code.
Something like ohloh is much better suited to being a CV.
Re: Github is Your New Resume
#6Along these lines, David Coallier created a tool to generate your github "résumé" awhile back: http://resume.github.com/
As unshift mentioned, the entire development community is not quite at the point where a github account can be used as your go-to résumé, but it is certainly becoming more and more useful in the job market.
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#7I certainly believe this to be a trend. I have been interviewing with different startups and they all have seemed to respond more to my github page than my resume. They all want to hear about personal projects and your thought process through them. Maybe I'm biased towards startups though.
Re: Github is Your New Resume
#8Along these lines, David Coallier created a tool to generate your github "résumé" awhile back: http://resume.github.com/ As unshift mentioned, the entire development community is not quite at the point where a github account can be used as your go-to résumé, but it is certainly becoming more and more useful in the job market.
cool, thanks for mentioning resume, I've never seen it!
Re: Github is Your New Resume
#9I like the idea of GitHub as a resume, but most of the code I drop in GitHub is closed source and I don't spend a lot of free time hacking on other people's projects. So, while a GitHub resume is a great idea if you do a lot of open source hacking, it is not nearly as useful if you are working on private code.
Re: Github is Your New Resume
#10I like the idea of GitHub as a resume, but most of the code I drop in GitHub is closed source and I don't spend a lot of free time hacking on other people's projects. So, while a GitHub resume is a great idea if you do a lot of open source hacking, it is not nearly as useful if you are working on private code.
My day-to-day tasks are all around private repos too. But for some reason I keep having to patch, fix, edit, hack other people's open source projects. If you don't, maybe it's time to look for a piece inside a private repo that could be useful to others and spend the extra time extracting it into something open-source?