Hi Jimmy, I'm no expert in Ruby on Rails yet, but I would feel bad to ignore a post graduate when I see one. Well, I'm not a post graduate anymore but I know what it is to come in a place where everyone (yes, everyone) has more experience than you.
In no special order: - Don't say that you have strong verbal and written communication skills if you are unable to write in perfect english. People are not stupid. They will see right away that english is not your mother tongue, and they will not blame you for being born in another country. My advice: For verbal communication, tell right away that you are still learning, and that your english may contain errors (and ask if they want/can help you fix it :)). For written english, buy/use a software to fix your grammar and, in the long run, fix it. - I would remove anything that is not related to the job I'm applying for. You want to work as a RoR developer? Cool. At least keep only the information related to software development. You won't be a manager right away, and you will have to write quite a few lines of code if you want to earn the respect that we give to a team leader. - A "casual" Junior position? Is that a new buzz word? No seriously, what does that mean? I've never heard of it. >> After googling "define casual job" (which is a specific australian term), I have to say that you will probably not find something like this here unless you're a senior. If I'm wrong, please, OH please, come and tell me. - "Self-learning" skill is not something you tell, it's something you show... so give examples of projects you have done outside school (software projects), books that you've read, or things alike. If you have none (and I won't blame you for that), don't tell it. FYI, the RoR community is really open and will try to help you as much as they can (yeah they are fantastic people), but the market for Junior developers is a pretty harsh place (or am I just imagining things?). You'll fall on many recruiters and they, by experience, are searching for mid-senior level developers. Not juniors and surely not post graduate because they are "not making enough money out of it" (cf. the last recruiter I spoke with). Even companies who are searching for Juniors ask for at least a year of experience, if not 3 (and you call that a junior, hu?). Maybe you'll have a better chance with a post graduate program (I heard about that once or twice, but never looked into it). Or more like I did a few years ago and again a few months ago, find one or more projects that people are ready to pay you for (pretty much only enough to buy food/shelter...) and gain the necessary experience to pick the interest of someone. Also, you can try finding a mentor. Ah yes, try working on open source projects if you can. Anything that you publish has value. And OSS is cool. Wish you luck. Vince PS: recruiters are not all bad. But I think I made up my mind to not lose my time with them anymore (except for rare individuals who will probably recognize themselves anyway). On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 1:17:23 PM UTC+11, Jimmy Fan wrote: > > Hi all > I attended couple of meet ups at inspire9 with you guys. I had great fun > there. > As having good communicate skills as well as performing well as a team > member. I also have the good self-learning skills that make me easily > adapter into any team and catch up the project. > I am looking for a casual Junior RoR developer position as I have done my > course. > This is because I have to back to my country to have the wedding in > January, therefore I cannot have the permanent position at moment. > Temporally Residence or Permanent Residence will be applied by end of this > year. > > Please find attached file for my resume. > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks > Jimmy Fan > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rails-oceania/-/uCq0F1wOZPIJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
