You can absolutely (and should) provide a URL to your website / GitHub on your resume so someone can dive deeper into your experience. I didn’t want to click through 5 pages of your website to get to your experience, I didn’t want to scroll through your GitHub projects to see what languages you knew, and I sure as heck was in no mood to watch your 10 second loading animations. Through this exercise, I got a glimpse into what recruiters and managers go through while filling a role and it was not pretty. Relying solely on a websiteĪs useful as having a portfolio website or thorough LinkedIn profile is, it’s more important to have a document ready for email or print. Run it through a printer, make sure it looks good in black and white and that it’s not cut off anywhere. Recruiters and managers pass your resume around via email and printed paper. Out of the many I reviewed and comments I’ve seen from other reviewers and more, I’ve compiled the list of the most common mistakes collectively caught. I reviewed as many as I could bear before holiday, and will be continuing to go through and try to catch any that fell through the cracks.
Overall it was an amazing thing to watch the community help each other out. OK – we didn’t break the internet, but my notifications were definitely fried. Recently we broke the internet with a Resume Review dev.to post and tweet.