Stage 2 · Lesson 5 of 8
Projects with stack, scale and links
For students, graduates and people changing careers, the often carries the resume. Pick two or three projects. For each, give its name, the stack (the main languages and tools you used), one line on what it does, and your role if it was a team project.
Add a result or scale figure, and a link to a or the where the code lives. Order them by how relevant they are to the , not by date. A deployed app with 30 real users says more than a large but unfinished clone.
The next stage turns these same projects into , so choose ones you can explain in detail for twenty minutes.
Common traplisting tutorial projects everyone has built, with no link and no sign of your own decisions.
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Resources for this stage
Start with· follow one of these
- CoursePaidGrokking Prompt Engineering for Professional Portfolio and Job Search
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Using AI to tailor a resume to a posting without generic filler or invented claims
- GuideFreeTech Interview Handbook: Resume Guide
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Free guide to engineering resumes: what to cut, how to phrase results, how screening works
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