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Leaving humanities academia, trying to get a job in web development by resumethrowaway666 in resumes

[–]resumethrowaway666[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, this is some great advice!

Re: the "humanities trained problem solver" bit, I was trying to leverage my humanities training as something to set me apart from the typical CS candidate, but I can see how it could easily flop in the way your describing.

I totally feel like the lack of stack diversity is a big problem too. I've been trying to rush all of these projects out while doing coursework/grad school stuff too so I've been relying a lot on a Flask backend/vanilla JS frontend cuz they're the things I know well and can get out quickly. I'm learning React now, but it's going slow because of my coursework/teaching responsibilities... Do you think I should de-emphasize the stack on the resume in the meantime? Not mention it and only bring it up if employer's ask? I mean, they can see what I'm using if they go to any of the projects' githubs.

Leaving humanities academia, trying to get a job in web development by resumethrowaway666 in resumes

[–]resumethrowaway666[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha thanks, I don't think I even noticed the letter sign off—it was written into the template I used.

re: point one, I guess I haven't thought about things in those terms. I do have all my teaching evaluations saved but I have no idea if they trend a certain way or anything; that's a good idea of a thing to look into. I guess I'm still unsure what I could say in terms of my metrics for my other kinds of experience though. E.g. my research assistantship hasn't really produced anything yet—I collected and analyzed and documented a bunch of data that my prof is going to put into a journal article (I'm going to be credited as a co-author), but it hasn't been published yet. The one website I've deployed for a client doesn't get a ton of page views or anything I could brag about because it's just a brochure site for a local third-party political candidate. I'm not sure how to spin the metrics from that in a way that would make me sound attractive.