<story><title>Practical Tips for Facelifting a Tech Resume</title><url>https://cvcompiler.com/blog/facelift-your-it-resume-to-get-more-interviews/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bartread</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m getting pretty tired of seeing 5 (&amp;quot;Establish and showcase an online presence&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;Why? It&amp;#x27;s substantially nonsense. Many of the best programmers I&amp;#x27;ve worked with don&amp;#x27;t do, or don&amp;#x27;t showcase, side-projects. And why should they? They&amp;#x27;ve got families and other interests.&lt;p&gt;Who wants to be stuck in front of a computer all the time? (He said, ironically, whilst typing a HN comment on a Sunday evening.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TrackerFF</author><text>It is also the reason why we have about 695135 copy&amp;#x2F;paste blog posts on how to train a neural network on MNIST.&lt;p&gt;Whenever you see a lot of &amp;quot;Hello world!&amp;quot;-esque tech posts on how to do something, you can safely assume that it&amp;#x27;s 95% about building a online presence &amp;#x2F; reputation, and 5% about being helpful to the beginners.&lt;p&gt;I love good tutorials as much as the next person, but this constant CV-building nonsense is getting tiresome.</text></comment>
<story><title>Practical Tips for Facelifting a Tech Resume</title><url>https://cvcompiler.com/blog/facelift-your-it-resume-to-get-more-interviews/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bartread</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m getting pretty tired of seeing 5 (&amp;quot;Establish and showcase an online presence&amp;quot;).&lt;p&gt;Why? It&amp;#x27;s substantially nonsense. Many of the best programmers I&amp;#x27;ve worked with don&amp;#x27;t do, or don&amp;#x27;t showcase, side-projects. And why should they? They&amp;#x27;ve got families and other interests.&lt;p&gt;Who wants to be stuck in front of a computer all the time? (He said, ironically, whilst typing a HN comment on a Sunday evening.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codeisawesome</author><text>This is because Tech Recruiters are not Interviewers. You first need to pass the Recruiter filter. Tech recruiters are (and I quote) looking for &amp;quot;honey holes&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=lvpByue1M4E&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=lvpByue1M4E&lt;/a&gt; such as GitHub and StackOverflow. There is even a cottage industry of Tools that will Index developers on their public profiles, nowadays.&lt;p&gt;(I ran into that video while I was searching for &amp;quot;tips on searching for specific source code fragments on GitHub&amp;quot; and this title matched, and it was not what I thought it is :D)</text></comment>