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cristian9509's avatar

What should I write on my resume when I did a one man project?

I did a project (subscription based) in which I did the planning, requirements gathering, database design, and coding (of course in Laravel). It was a fairly complex project with lots of DB tables (50+) and lots of code involved. Now I want to update my resume and I find it very hard to list these specific tasks I did. The project owner provided me with all the requirements (that they had in mind) and the business model. I had to figure out everything else. Does anyone has had any experience with building a project fairly complex by themselves and then placed in on a resume?

Thanks

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jekinney's avatar

From my experience and having to hire devs my opinion is make it as freelance (assuming it was) and use of key words means more then content. Project management from idea to final product as only developer. Ensuring clients expectations where exceeded. I had to learn advanced JavaScript to.... From the JavaScript documentation along with employing vue js successfully to accomplish the requirements

Something along those lines. Key words project management, developer, etc add in subscription based and more as required. If possable list the site name and url along with the clients name. In your references list your client.

I emphasize short and sweet. Look at like odesk profiles and generally do the opposite. We all now you might be good at a lot of things but master of one or two. List what your master of mention what your good at.

90% of people I have interviewed state they are an expert at php and JavaScript but don't know the difference between for and foreach loop or id vs class. And have very limited knowledge of where to find answers. Be surprised how many never thought to answer stack overflow or even YouTube. So mentioning you learned something new to implement and you figured it out on your own is huge in my book. Questions are fine, but asking me something basic that is easily found via Google gets Jr devs on my bad side right away.

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