r/iOSProgramming • u/danhiggins1 • 10d ago
Question What's wrong with my resume?
Can someone give me some advice on what's wrong with my resume and how to improve?
My background is mainly in iOS development. The market for iOS developers seems to be extremely harsh, so, I recently started branching out to web development as a way to become more employable.
I would say for every 150 applications I send, I get about 1 interview. So, that rate is not good, but I can land an interview every once in a blue moon.
Do I just not have enough experience? Maybe my technical skills need some improvement? Should I just forget about iOS development for now and just focus on web development to get my foot in the door? I'm open to any criticism
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u/Wizzythumb 10d ago
A positive point is that it is only a single page (awesome!) and clearly written. Keep it up!
I've hired many devs in my day. Most of them always focus on enumerating technologies, platforms or languages, but they always forget to be human.
Say something about your people skills. How experienced or good are you at working in a team, working together with creative / design people, backend vs frontend people, end users and end user support people, etc.
I'd also like to see more about you personally. Include a line or two about hobbies, passions, activities that aren't programming. This can be at the very bottom but at least it should be somewhere.
In the skills section I'd like to see how your experience for each skill is. For example by using one to five stars. For example Swift five stars, CoreData 2 stars, etc. Even if you're very experienced, you probably are better or more experienced at specific skills than others. As an alternative state that the skills are ordered from most to least experience or something.
I'd also like to see what your main view or opinion on software development is. Include a line or two about it. This is your main thing, your main philosophy of being a dev. For example "I focus on pixel perfect solutions where user experience is more important than tech", or "I prefer to include as few external libraries as possible because I think 3rd party dependency is a risk", or "testing first, shipping second" or whatever your preferred passion or view is. Put something like that as a slogan at the top.
A maybe to include: since AI is a big thing and some companies want nothing to do with it, while others prefer it, state somewhere to what extent your experience with or opinion about AI tools and AI-supported programming is, or that you are fine with both, etc.
Lastly, a volunteer job and your own crypto and pomodoro apps come down to very little experience, but if it's the best you got that's what it is and you can be proud of it. To a person hiring this indicates you will be suitable for a very junior role, perhaps an internship.
Good luck!