Ask HN: I want to get hired for an entry level, developer role

My opinion (I interview and hire engineers):-

- Education goes at the bottom

- Tech skills go at the top

- The aligning on the work/url/date is really hard to read, just left align it, separate with -'s.

- The additional experience is almost a waste of space, I'd personally use the equivalent space to expand more on tech skills.

- You have 'proficient' then 'other', does 'other' mean not proficient? Use similar complementary terms to describe your skill levels i.e. 'Proficient at' and 'working knowledge of' or something like that.

- What's the difference between employment and technical projects? Some of your tech projects read like paid work so it's hard to tell what your skill level would be if I brought you in for a interview. if it's volunteer work I would put it under work but do something like '(volunteer)'

Basically your CV makes me have to think wayyy too much, I'm having to interpret things and guess what you mean, so I'd have no idea what to expect your quality to be if I got you in for a interview therefore I probably wouldn't bring you in.

Also if you're not doing it already then people connections is key (meetups etc)

Also if your university reviewed this and said it was ok then please considered them useless.

It's hard to deduce your age from the CV. If you're young, it works to your advantage (employers prefer young people for junior positions), so I think I'd just state the date of birth.

throw in some colors, some icons, etc. Something to make it different to the millions cvs going around

Well, the quickest way to create a job is to create one for yourself. This can be done many ways but here are two of the simplest. Pick one thing and become an expert at that. It could be as simple as "I only do email signatures....but my email signatures have a 97% click through/conversion rate." It does not need to be profound or exciting but you can then market yourself as THEE guy that does X. And when I want X done I will know that you are my guy and I will most likely tell everyone that has a need for X that you are the guy to call regardless of what you're charging. Specialties usually breed efficiency which will allow you to compete at a higher rate of perceived valuation. It may seem a little scary to pick a specialty but I can tell you that I won't call a plumber for brain surgery and I wont call brain surgeon to fix my motorcycle. There is more work than you think for whatever you choose.

The second way is to find a specialist and create yourself a position as saleman of his specialty. You will then have created two jobs, one for you and one for him. See? Easy! Plus you can start that part time while you are busy perfecting your craft as whatever you want to be in life.

I am very carefully considering what to do with my resume.

In the past, I paid this guy (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fecak) to make me a resume. I didn't post the link to that version of my resume. He said to do stuff like put my education on top, while people in this thread are saying to put it on the bottom. There are other conflicting points that I'm not going to mention for now. Needless to say, I have to be careful with this; I used to have education on the bottom.

Next, two things happened:

1) One person is giving me his time to help me with improvement. I want to hear his resume advice.

2) I received an invitation to do remote work for food money at a startup, which I agreed to do.

So I don't have any guaranteed date, until I hear back about my resume from the person I'm talking to.