Looking for some suggestions to enhance your CV? This article contains some tips for beginners to make their CV more interesting.
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. There are hundreds of articles on how to properly draw up a CV. In this article, we will look at what you can do to insert the information about it later into your CV. Participation in all these activities develops both your hard skills and soft skills, and recently they are especially relevant. Participating in open source projects will give you the skill of reading code and experience working with large projects, and most importantly, it will show your employer that you can put your skills into practice. Reading code well is very important. At first, you will spend most of your time at the company reading the code and understanding the project. Therefore, the skill to understand the code on your own will help you a lot. These can be well-known frameworks or small programs like calendars or a system for keeping track of students. If there is an opportunity, look for projects that are as close as possible to the requirements of the companies where you want to work. However, it is quite difficult to find them, since development in companies and open source projects very often significantly differs. Open source projects rarely use frameworks. On the other hand, this is an advantage, as it allows you to enter development only with knowledge of the language. It is better to describe in your CV the result you have achieved, for example: There are many hackathons of different levels.
