*Getting involved in collaborative open source development (i.e. contributing to established projects) is likely to increase your confidence, as well as that of a prospective employer.* This is a good point I see echoed in a few other posts. Thanks for the tip.
In my case and I imagine in the case of many curious younger developers we do not have strong enough opinions nor preferences for this yet; *I would consider including only the technologies I had interest in working with professionally.* On Thursday, March 23, 2017 at 1:54:25 PM UTC-4, Moe Aboulkheir wrote: > > Jason, > > If it were my resumé, I would consider including only the technologies I > had interest in working with professionally. Getting involved in > collaborative open source development (i.e. contributing to established > projects) is likely to increase your confidence, as well as that of a > prospective employer - you could consider shunting off the coursework > details (or listing those as "Interests", if they're interests) if you had > some voluntary development to put in its place. Other ways to fill out > space while improving content would be to include a generic (i.e. not > job-specific) introduction beneath the heading, or using complete sentences > for the job description at the bottom. If you go with bullet points, using > a list indicator might make this clearer. > > As far as visual feedback: it might scan better if the section headings in > the left column were kept to single words (i.e. no line breaks), and were > vertically justified with the top of corresponding piece of text in the > adjacent column (using a table with invisible borders). The alignment of > the info icons (which are a good call) is off in a similar way, and that > block does not appear horizontally centred to me. Some colour variation > may help also - examples would be converting the urls into links (with the > url as the link text, for printing), or using a dark shade of grey for > heading or title text. > > Take care, > Moe > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Jason Basanese <jason.b...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Attached is a fairly bad resume that I am using. Any tips on how I might >> change it to appeal to more places that are looking for functional >> developers? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:> >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
