Ask HN: Hacker Resume

#1

Post by musiic703 » Sat, Aug 10, 2013, 3:38 PM UTC

How should a programmers resume look like?

Re: Ask HN: Hacker Resume

#2

Post by yulaow » Sat, Aug 10, 2013, 3:44 PM UTC

Personalized for each job position you are looking for, nicely formatted and well organized, all the main data on the first page (often the big part of recruiters do not even read the other pages), at least one link to something (your github/sourceforge/personal_blog/etc) in which they can see some exemples of your code/coding_style and if you have a list of other jobs you have done in your life please put first a list of those strongly related to the job position you are looking for now, then a second list with all the others.

Re: Ask HN: Hacker Resume

#3

Post by amccloud » Sat, Aug 10, 2013, 9:19 PM UTC

I've had much success with http://resume.amccloud.com

Re: Ask HN: Hacker Resume

#4

Post by musiic703 » Sun, Aug 11, 2013, 2:05 AM UTC

Great tips. Thank you.

Re: Ask HN: Hacker Resume

#5

Post by satyampujari » Sun, Aug 11, 2013, 2:41 PM UTC

You may also try one of the creative hire-me campaign :)

http://phildub.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FRwCs99DWg

Re: Ask HN: Hacker Resume

#6

Post by musiic703 » Mon, Aug 12, 2013, 7:41 PM UTC

Do modern resumes have a picture of one self?

Re: Ask HN: Hacker Resume

#7

Post by bennyg » Tue, Aug 13, 2013, 1:00 PM UTC

musiic703 wrote: post #6

Do modern resumes have a picture of one self?

No. It'll either help you more or hinder you more.

Make it a nonfactor by not putting one on there. They'll validate your merits without doing that. It's okay to put one on a portfolio - HR and future bosses don't look at the portfolio first. They'll do that if your resume is up to snuff.