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What I look for in a junior developer CV

“The five things that get a junior developer an interview, and the three that quietly get a CV rejected.”
Attaullah

Instructor, TechSnow

19 Sept 2026 · 1 min read · Career

A recruiter spends less than a minute on your CV the first time. Make that minute count.

What gets you the interview

  • Two or three projects with a live link and a GitHub link
  • One line under each project saying what problem it solves
  • Skills that match the job post, in the same words
  • A clean one-page layout
  • Evidence you finish things: a course certificate, an open-source pull request

What quietly gets you rejected

  • Listing fifteen languages with no project for any of them
  • Tutorial clones with no change from the original
  • Spelling mistakes in the first three lines
Change your project names from "To-do app" to what they do: "Task tracker with due-date reminders".

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Attaullah

Instructor, TechSnow

Teaches web development, Python and programming fundamentals at TechSnow, with clear lessons in English and Urdu / Hindi and a real project in every course.

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  • Hamza K. 2 days ago

    Really clear explanation. The example made it click for me.

    • TechSnow teamAuthor2 days ago

      Glad it helped, Hamza! Try changing the example and see what breaks.

  • Mehwish 4 days ago

    Could you write a follow-up with a bigger project?

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