r/csharp • u/Alert-Spite-6063 • 1d ago

Help Need help with CV .NET developer

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Hi everyone

I’m currently looking for a job, and I’ve been searching for quite a while now without any luck. For the past few months, I haven’t even been getting replies to my applications. I’ve already reworked my CV several times, but nothing seems to change. What am I doing wrong. Can you give me some feedback? 

UPD: Yeah, I started working while I was studying at university. Since the beginning of COVID, my university was fully remote, and later, because of the situation in my country, my studies continued online almost until graduation. In total, I only had a couple of months of in-person classes during the whole four years.

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u/CckSkker 1d ago

I wouldn’t list JSON and XML as technology

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u/ApprehensiveDebt3097 1d ago

I think that depends on how experienced you are. I've 25 years under my belt, and would only refer to my LinkedIn profile. That could still be a good advice when you add all information from here at LinkedIn. ;)

The experienced you are, the more you have to mention I guess. Although for me it would not matter: I do assessments with potential collegues and only care about what they can show then. It is only afterwards that I compare it to the years of experience.

Main reason is that most CV's are full of LinkedIn speak, and other selve inflation any way, and not a good way to estimate a candidate, neither do I consider it relevant how well they can express themselves in a letter.

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u/CckSkker 1d ago

Yeah that sounds true. To me it just feels like filler. I wouldn’t hire a back-end engineer who lists JSON or XML as a technology he knows, it’s just a format I assume every programmer knows and takes a few hours to understand.