[flpm]

Also a hiring manager. I always do. For me a good personal site is a huge step towards a phone interview. I look for things people do not because anyone told them to do (college projects, internships, work), but because they were excited about it. That initiative and excitement is what will set you apart from the other 100 resumes that look exactly like yours.

[zelphirkalt]

I hope you can "infect" others with this kind of view, so that more people adopt it.

My CV currently also includes a link to my repositories and a page briefly describing some projects that got anywhere. Far from all of my 100 or so personal free time projects get finished, but some do, and those are described and linked in my CV and on my website.

At least I do get interviews, which must mean at least something, and sometimes it's just the role that is not fitting. Often it is their tech stack and they do not believe in engineers learning things on the job, looking for a perfect match. Sometimes it was some test that they do, that presumes some knowledge about some library or that is some specific leetcode thingy, that I wouldn't code that way anyway, if I had the choice.

[deadbabe]

Please no, I don’t want people making blogs just because they want to get a job from it at some point, they should be making blogs because they love to blog.

Imagine everyone having some cookie cutter blog, just a standard part of a resume.

[kyawzazaw]

what kind of companies do you work for?