Seasoned web developer with 8 years’ experience in developing, designing, and publishing company and client websites. Solid experience in working with client deadlines as well as working within varying strictness in design parameters. Efficient, hardworking, and motivated by client satisfaction.
Yes! When writing a resume for a field as specialized as web development, it’s important to make sure you don’t bog down your document with unnecessary details. Hiring managers need to know your skills as they relate to the position. The skills you gained from the break dancing class you took in college or your job at a local sandwich shop in high school are not going to contribute to your eligibility for the position.
Absolutely. It’s important that your most recent experiences and achievements are closer to the top of your document. Hiring managers are much more likely to see it since they only spend between five and seven seconds looking at a resume initially. It’s also important to not only keep your work experiences relevant but to also keep them recent. Hiring managers have little interest in any position you may have had more than 10 years ago, especially in web design since obsolescence occurs quickly.
Yes, it does. It’s always a good idea to have a link to your personal website on your resume, but it is especially important in the field of web design. It’s easy to make bold claims in a document; it’s much harder to fake the work itself. Hiring managers will be more likely to call you in for an interview if they can see firsthand what you’re capable of. Notice that our resume writer included a link to his personal website under Freelance Experience.
Yes. One of the most effective ways to communicate the value of your accomplishments is by using metrics. Web design isn’t nearly as competitive or numbers-based as sales or marketing, but you can still find ways to incorporate metrics in your resume. As you’ll see in the resume sample, our resume writer noted a 24% company site traffic increase during his time with that company. Quantifying your achievements is a far better way to illustrate their impact on the company than simply stating you achieved something.
Indubitably! It may not seem important from the outset, but changing up the verbs used in your skills and work history section can go a long way toward engaging the reader. You’ll notice that our resume writer almost never repeated the verbs used at the beginning of each bullet in his work history section.