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Collections: Resumes, Portfolios, and Interviewing

If you are actively looking for a job or just preparing, here is Tim's advice and practical steps to improve your odds of getting hired!

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We have curated Tim's videos from YouTube and pulled together his best advice on improving your resume to help get it noticed. Not sure what goes in your Portfolio or how to present it? Tim will help you with that as well. Once you get your foot in the door, how should you handle the interview questions? Tim helps get you interview-ready.

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Key topicsGetting Hired As A C# Developer In 2025 Getting a job as a C# developer takes a plan. Otherwise, you end up spending a lot of wasted time aimlessly applying and getting rejected over and over. In this video, we are going to establish a clear plan that you can execute effectively. Along the way, I will show you how to perform each step to ensure that you are successful. Resume, portfolio, Skill growth 239. How To Get A Job In Software Development

How do I get a job in software development? What do I need to do to get my first job in C#? How do I approach the job market?

Resume, Skill growth

46. What Are Some Career Tips For Self-Taught Developers?

What are some career tips for developers who are self-taught? What extra should I do if I don't have a Computer Science degree? Is there anything extra I need to do?

Resume, Skill growth

74. How Do I Get C# Work Experience? How Do I Get My First Job?

How do I get C# work experience so I can get a job to get work experience? How do I get my first job when they all want work experience first? Is there any experience that counts for work experience that isn't a job?

Resume, Skill growth

180. Why Can't I Get a Job as A Software Developer?

Why can't I get a job as a software developer? Why is it that I apply and never hear back? How do I compete in this sea of developers? How do I stand out from the crowd?

Resume, portfolio

Improving Your Job Hunting Odds

There are ways to improve your odds of success when hunting for a job.

Resume, portfolio

C# Resume and Portfolio Review

Applying for a job can be tough. Often, you get rejected without finding out why. As an employer who has to look at hundreds of resumes every time I hire anyone, there are a lot of simple things that you can do to make your resume stand out and improve your chances with an employer.

Resume, portfolio

226. Why You Aren't Landing Your Dream Development Job

Why am I not landing my dream job? Why do I keep getting rejected when I submit my resume? I'm overqualified, yet I'm not getting the job. Why do I keep getting passed over?

Resume, portfolio

249. Why Employers Don't Treat You Like You Expect

Why does my resume get ignored when I am perfect for a position? Why don't I get a raise at work even when I deserve it? Why do I sometimes think I did something horrible, only to find out that people thought I did great?

Resume, Career management

4. How Do I Get a C# Developer Job? How Do I Prepare? Do I Need a Portfolio?

How do I get a job as a C# developer? How do I pass an interview as a developer? What should my resume look like? Whether you are a new developer looking for your first job or a seasoned developer looking for something new, figuring out how to get a job can be tough. So let's talk about it.

Resume, Portfolio

209. Using Outside Experience as a Software Developer

Can I use my experience from previous jobs as a software developer, or are those skills useless? How can I take advantage of my previous work experience outside of software development? These are the questions we will answer in today's episode of DevQuestions.

Resume

117. What Are Some Resume Tips for A C# Developer?

What are some tips on how to make your resume better as a C# developer? How do I make my resume more attractive as a software developer? Are there certain things I should add to my resume?

Resume

79. Why Won't Employers Hire Me?

What do I do if I keep getting rejected when applying for jobs? How do I get a job when I never get to an interview? What can I change to make a difference? How do I get hiring managers to give me a chance?

Resume

222. What Employers Look For When Hiring Developers

What are employers looking for when they interview a developer? How can I show a hiring manager what they want to see during the interview process?

Resume, Interviewing

231. Customizing Your Resume Per Application

Do I really need to customize my resume per job I apply for? How do I manage all of that customization? What do I change if I want to customize my resume for a specific application? What are the benefits of customizing my resume?

Resume

15. What Should I Have In My Portfolio? What Makes For Good Portfolio Content?

Your portfolio shows off what you can do. So what should you have in your portfolio? Should you put your class projects in it? How about the code from the tutorials you watched? What if you can't think of a project to create for your portfolio?

Portfolio

198. How Do I Make My Portfolio Better?

How do I make my portfolio more attractive? What do employers want to see in a portfolio? What if I am building desktop applications? How do I show off what I can do? What if my employer does not allow me to put anything in my portfolio?

Portfolio

Portfolio Preparation: Building a Postman Clone Course

In this lesson, we are going to turn our project into a portfolio item. We are going to do this by upgrading our readme, adding screenshots and explanations, and by publishing a working version of our application. This will then be something we could show off to others and include in our portfolio.

Portfolio

Backend Portfolio Items

What should a backend developer's portfolio item look like?

Portfolio

Overcoming the Job Market

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Portfolio

223. Protect Yourself From Layoffs, Downsizing, and Losing Your Job

How do I avoid being laid off? How do I make sure I will be successful if I lose my job? What do I have to do to protect myself in today's job market?

Portfolio

126. Does Knowing Data Structures and Algorithms Benefit a C# Developer?

Do I need to know about data structures and algorithms to be a good developer? Do interview questions apply to the real world? Do I need to know what a linked list is or how it works?

Interviewing, Skills growth

212. How To Nail a Job Interview

How do I interview well? What things should I say or do in an interview to impress an interviewer? What pitfalls should I avoid when interviewing for a job?

Interviewing

137. How Do I Recover After Being Fired?

How do I regain my confidence after being fired? How do I talk about being fired? Can I recover from being fired, or is my career over?

Interviewing

 

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