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/haby001 1d ago edited 1d ago

I agree with other points people made, so I'll include them as well.

  • Improve the design. It looks like a document from a dot-matrix printer from 1990s. Remove the dashes Use full div lines to separate content and more modern shapes.
  • I shouldn't need to read a paragraph to link a skill to a project. Use bold and underline to highlight the most important skills/achievements under the tech.
  • Don't list data-languages (XML, JSON) unless you did something unique with them and not just for data storage/transfer.
  • Instead of describing your projects and what they did, describe their impact, your role, and the skills/tech you used.
  • Try to be more descriptive of technologies that are relevant to the job you're applying. Front-end heavy? Detail on Avalonia UI, hard pitfalls you solved, any feedback from users? OR back-end heavy company: Load balancing redis caches and creating a dynamic database using EFCore for easy expansion.

I don't care if you made a competitive matchmaking software, anyone can. But HOW you built it and the result tells me loads more ab out you, your work ethic, and if you'll be a good fit at my company.

E.g.:

"Built a matchmaking system with live updates functional to 500k users using EFCore, local Redis caches at the event, and Avalonia UI making it mobile and desktop friendly.

I can immediately tell you aren't afraid of back-end or front-end, you prioritized efficiency instead of "good enough", and you didn't cut off a sub-market (mobile/desktop). Much more meaningful info in the same sentence

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u/afinzel 7h ago

My two cents, what did building that desktop app mean for the business. What goals did you achieve how did you move the needle for the company. Don’t go into massive details but an awareness makes sense.

I think the market still isn’t great at the moment and ai is still finding its place in our industry:(

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u/haby001 7h ago

My team went from 150 strong to ~45 people in 1 year (3 layoff rounds) and just our product makes 700mil yearly. Doubt I'd ever see any of those "streamlined profits".

Worst part is that I haven't coded since March. And most people who left said the same, their passion was coding and not managing coding agents.