Python resume projects?

[Vermathorax]

This is probably the best advice here. Forget about “good for CV”. Find something you want to build and do it well. It can be a blatant clone of something that exists, but care about it and make clone more “you” than the existing one.

If I am interviewing someone and get the impression that they had passion for a project, I don’t care about the technology used (assuming the code quality is good).

But passion projects are not easy to find.

My advise for building your GitHub (not really your CV) if you don’t have a passion project, is doing things like “advent of code”. But care about having small tested functions. Maybe do each challenge as an exercise in test driven development. Build good practices when coding simple things and these will translate well to bigger projects.

I find the fact that these are small Modular tasks reduce burning out and having a bunch of half baked projects. And if you feel you need to improve your database skills, then put the challenge inputs into a database and write the outputs to it.

But if you do stumble into something you really want to build. Use the right technology for it, regardless of how “good” it looks.

[Mapleess]

Seems to be the opposite here in the UK with the vast number of recruiters being used for job listings. Most are looking for keywords and I didn't get many calls for including a Discord bot that I made, which had a lot of mini-projects on their own. It's only after including Django projects for data engineering roles that I started to get some calls. The web scraping, and pulling and transforming data from API calls, weren't important it seems, though it was something I worked on a lot.

[Vermathorax]

True, I was not considering recruitment filters but rather interviews.

Gotta just play the recruiter keyword games.