On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Kevin Jensen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Question for those of you that hire—when you are looking through resumes, > CVs and portfolios, how often do you *actually* look up a web link? > I almost always look at them, especially if I can just click on an electronic link. (If I have a paper copy of the résumé, I'm less likely to type in the URL, unless it's a well-known site like github. I almost always check out stuff on sites like github or gitorioius. Now, by way of fair warning, I've probably given a couple hundred interviews in the past decade, and it surprises me how many people will link to work that they don't understand. They'll go on and on about something they built, but then be unable to explain how it works, or how a "for loop" or "select/case statement" works. If you link to a portfolio, it better be your work, and you better be able to articulate how it works, and what you learned along the way. -- Jared Smith _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
