Applying for a Web Designer or Programmer Job
If you are applying for a job as web designer or programmer, a few things you might want to consider:
- Please make your resume neat and a bit unique, if possible. Here, in Nepal and parts of South Asia, I have had the honor of reading/scrutinizing/agonizing over carbon copy IT resumes (CV) with same dull format and not even properly formated. A turn off from the start. You want to make a change, Show the change you want to be (from the very start).
- Employers are interested in your Job Experience, much more than your education and which school/university you went to. In Information Technology Communication Field, try build up a few rounds of experience by interning at small web design or web application building firm or if that is hard to find, build a website or build something yourself.
- Sound confident in your cover letter but also humble enough so that the person on the other side would want to short list you to the candidates s/he wants to interview.
More on interviews later.
chandra 5:42 pm on May 30, 2007 Permalink |
Another funny thing that I have noticed for all these years is people not being ‘interested’ in jobs. We can just say that they are being too lazy. Common people, how do you expect to get a job when you make a standard template of application and send it to one company and addressed to another. You need to be smarter than that!
Tip: DO YOUR HOMEWORK if you really want to work on the job you are applying to.. else .. don’t even bother. You are wasting everyone’s time.