Helping You Write Your
Tech Resume,
Cover Letter, & More

Experience does not have to come from a full time developer role. Building a tool to help your team in your current position or building projects for clients part time on the side can give you enough experience for your first full time role.

Write a lot of code! Make your own projects and continuously maintain them and update them, using interesting and new technologies to show that you are always learning. Give links to your websites, apps, and github with specific code examples. Make sure that you’ve caught all bugs for your projects. One of my new favorite ways to come up with projects is just to join some online hackathons – there are some fun prompts, you have a deadline so you might be more likely to finish your project, and you’ll definitely learn something new along the way! Plus if you win anything, you can add that to your resume 🙂

Don’t stress first of all. They say they all require experience but you may have experience from other roles that you can correlate to the roles directly that maybe aren’t engineering related on the surface. If you are struggling to find a job without experience look into a passion project or reach out to local small businesses and offer to help them to amp up their website and/or ordering system. A lot of small businesses have basic websites because they are not tech savvy. So they will gladly allow you to help them. The pay might not be the greatest but it gains experience. Also use your network. Ask for opportunities through people you know. Networking is your biggest tool that is usually the least utilized.