From the course: Writing a Tech Resume
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Personal portfolio or website
- Creating a personal portfolio or website is a wonderful way to provide more information about yourself, and it can also demonstrate your technical skills. If your strongest front-end development skills are with React, you might want to build your portfolio using the Library. Building a personal website using the technologies you're comfortable with allows you to demonstrate the skills on your resume and gives you a place to be a bit more creative. While resumes are meant to be professional and clean, a personal website gives you the creative license to let your imagination run wild. You can also use your personal website to learn a new skill. I've always wanted to learn web animations with react-spring but I never had a side-project to test them out on, so I decided to leverage my personal website to practice some of my skills. Creating a personal portfolio can be time consuming and is not required for landing a job…
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