Ask HN: About to be homeless, any ideas for a junior dev?

Where are you located? I haven't worked w/ PHP for 8 years and I'm really not sure what the market looks like but learning other newer technologies such as Rails could potentially make a much big market available to you.

I know in the Bay Area, Jr Rails engineers are in super high demand.

First, it's incredibly confusing. You have useless information and the relevant information is spread out into a dozen boxes.

1. You don't need to list that you're a male. (I'd also argue you don't need your d.o.b)

2. You don't need the professional area. If you're submitting the resume, the employer already knows what sector you're in. If someone stumbles across the resume, your experience and skills should make it clear what you can do. The box takes up space and it typecasts you.

3. If they see your resume, you're definitely looking for a job. You don't need a whole box to say it.

4. Don't put a salary requirement. Forgetting some people's taboo about explicitly discussing salary, it can only hurt you. Why would any one pay you 80k if you're telling them that they can pay you 60k.

5. The timeline is useless. First, it stops you from providing extra context (I have no idea what Sherman Curl LLC is.) Second, it highlights the 3.5 year gap between Massage Therapist and the rest of your work. It's better to elaborate on a few relevant jobs then to list every thing you've ever done.

6. You don't use the legend on the bottom of the timeline, it just tells me you used resumup. I'm beating a dead horse, but your website should have the visual resume, not the downloadable pdf. Your downloaded resume should just be your relevant information.

7. You say you have a diploma but you do not say what you got it in or where it's from. That whole box is useless.

8. Hobbies in general are extraneous, yours are especially since none of them are close to notable or unique (although they're a lot of fun.) I also have no idea what electronic hobbies are.

9. The language box has nothing in it.

10. Personality traits aren't binary and, as an employer, I'd probably want to make those judgements myself. Your skills and experience are more important.

11. The skills graphs are confusing. I don't want to spend time trying to understand things that could be put in a list format. Finally, you don't fill all of the form boxes in the skill chart.

12. Your url is your resume, which has the same information I'm looking at. I normally would reccomend linking to your homepage, but since you're doing multi-level-marketing on it, I'm not sure where you want the link to point, maybe github.

I think this is harsher then I intended, but it's important for your first impression (your resume) to be a good one.

TL:DR: Your downloadable resume, even more then your digital one, should strictly be relevant information about your name, email, skills and experience.

You have been doing this for a decade...and still consider yourself junior?