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What Employers Actually Check

How a technical CV is really read, what a portfolio has to prove, and where a certification helps and where it does nothing. Written from what hiring processes screen on, not from what course marketing says they do.

What's inside

  • The two screens every application passes through, and what each one is looking for
  • Portfolio: why three finished things beat eleven tutorials, and what "finished" means
  • The README that decides whether anyone runs your project
  • Certifications — where they genuinely open a door, and where they are a tax on your time
  • How to describe a project so a non-specialist interviewer can see the work
  • The four questions almost every technical interview contains, in some form

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Educational material. Hiring practices vary enormously by employer, country and role, and nothing here is a prediction about any application or a guarantee of employment.