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In this video, we're going to go over how to create a web developer resume.

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So in the previous lessons, we've gone over the entire course as far as understanding how to become

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web developer, how to develop the skills, as far as creating the various projects, how to use HTML

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cyesis right.

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All of the different skills that require you to become a web developer.

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You've essentially learned and developed through this particular course.

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Now we're ready to go out there and either, you know, look for a particular job and, you know, develop

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a resume and or also if you want to go out there and start freelancing, we're going to cover that in

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this particular section as well.

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But in this particular lesson, we're going to walk through how to set up a resume.

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If you're looking to get a web developer job, let's go right ahead and jump in here.

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So this is an example here, as you can see on the right hand side of how to create a web developer

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resume.

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Now, the thing you want to keep in mind here is that you want to keep it as short as possible.

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You want to try to make it one page, because if you're making it with multiple pages and you have,

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you know, two to three different pages of all the stuff that you've got going on, oftentimes recruiters

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will, you know, just skip over because they want to be able to make things very easy and simple for

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them.

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So they want to just screen and take a look at your resume real quick, kind of look at your accomplishments

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and then, you know, see if you are a fit to go on to the next stage.

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So another thing you want to keep in mind here is that a lot of times resumes are oftentimes going through

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the, you know, particular computers in particular I.

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And they don't actually get to individuals where they're manually being read and taken look at until

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after they've passed a prescreening through some sort of algorithm.

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Right.

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Or some sort of mechanism that, you know, make sure that you have the right keywords in there that

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actually verifies that you have the right type of experience, the right type of keywords.

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Right.

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And they'll filter this typically, like I mentioned, through the keywords, through your experience.

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And then after you pass that kind of preliminary stage, right.

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Then you're actually going to have somebody manually review your resume to be able to get you on a call.

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And so how you want to set this up here as far as for your experience and your resume at the top, you

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want to put your name, your location, you want to put your LinkedIn email, phone number, plus your

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website address, because obviously as a web developer, you must have or, you know, if you don't

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have a website, then you're doing yourself a major disservice.

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So you want to have a website of your own that, you know, maybe some kind of blog that showcases your

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portfolio, your experience.

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Having a website is extremely important for yourself because, you know, if you are getting into web

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developer type of position and you yourself don't even have a website, that's not going to be sitting

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very well with employers or, you know, freelancers or contractors or, you know, whatever kind of

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road you're looking to take, it's not going to sit well as you being somebody who is trying to run,

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you know, your own business or trying to actually run your own self as a business, because believe

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it or not, when you are going out there looking for a job as an individual, you're essentially positioning

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yourself as a product.

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Right, as a business because you're marketing yourself as such.

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Right.

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Your resume.

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That's essentially you, you know, selling yourself, selling yourself as a product, as a service

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to an organization.

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So you want to make sure that you have a website and you're actually able to showcase your skills,

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your background, your knowledge and, you know, some work there.

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So make sure you have this information at the top there.

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And then under that, you want to put your technical skills.

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You want to make sure you have the same skills that are mentioned in the job postings.

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So this is critically important here whenever you are applying to a specific position.

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Right.

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And they have certain criteria and certain skills that they're listing on the application, you always

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want to make sure you have the exact type of words.

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Right keywords in there, because as I mentioned and our first point here, a lot of times these applications

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are being reviewed by computers, by algorithms.

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Right.

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And if you don't have the right kind of keywords in there right now, you typically not going to pass

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that first round where, you know, the actual algorithm looks at your resume, filters you out by keywords

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and then put you on to the next stage.

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So making sure you have the right keywords there that are associated with the position and that your

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skills.

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Right.

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Are reflected upon your resume that have to do precisely with what the actual job description entails.

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Right.

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Because if you have an application that or, you know, some kind of job description out there that

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you're looking to apply for, that says, you know, we want X, Y, Z experience and you're putting

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A, B, C experience and you're not really showing the individual recruiters or individual, you know,

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employers how your skills directly are able to connect with and are associated with what they're asking

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for.

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As far as for the, you know, the job description skills, you're going to have a hard time being able

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to get past even the first round because you want to make sure that your resume is talking to what the

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actual, you know, description and what the actual job description is talking about.

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So next thing here, you want to avoid subjective quality, such as organized, hard worker, detail

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oriented.

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Right.

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These are all going to be things that are very, very subjective.

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Right.

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Just like saying I was the best worker on my team.

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I was the most organized, you know, individual on my team or whatever that may be.

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Right.

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Because you know the best of what?

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According to who or, you know, in comparison to what.

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Right.

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Organize.

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You were the best organized or the most hardest worker compared to what right, so you want to make

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sure that your specific and the quality should be shown through your work project experience.

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OK, so and here's a reference here where you can actually go and use this template here, change it

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around so that you can create your own resume.

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And oftentimes the situation is going to depend as far as you wanting to create maybe just one resume

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or have several specific resumes that are talking to each particular job.

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The way that I would work it is if I'm looking to, you know, apply to various jobs and they're all

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kind of, you know, similar.

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But some are asking or requesting certain skills.

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I would go in there and modify and adjust each particular resume that I am, you know, submitting to

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each particular position.

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Now, if you are maybe working with a recruiter or with somebody that can, you know, place you in

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a particular position, then you can oftentimes just give them a, you know, overall resume of your

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experience.

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Right.

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Like something like this here is great because it shows that this individual here has senior web developer

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experience with end web development experience.

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Right.

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And so, you know, this individual here could easily get a position, you know, with like a startup

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or, you know, an organization that's looking for a web developer.

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Now, if you are looking to, like I said specifically, go out there and apply to various jobs yourself

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individually, make sure that your resume is talking to and specific to that particular job description.

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Because if not, and you're just creating one resume and submitting it to all of these different positions,

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your response rate is going to be extremely low.

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So want to make sure, like I said, you are creating a resume.

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You have a good kind of framework and foundation, say, here.

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But when you're applying for various jobs and you're doing it yourself, make sure that you're adjusting

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it, modifying it to cater to that specific job.

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Right.

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And what it's actually asking for, for you to have as far as a skill.

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So that's going to be here for this one.

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And we'll see you on the next one.