I really did write some software in my teaching career - but obviously I was a teacher, not a coder. Some of it really stretches the experiences to fit the narrative I was trying to sell, but is all true. Here is my actual resume from before I started working as a dev, HOWEVER it was not this resume that landed me a job! The other way is not to rely on resumes at all! Expand your network and use that network to find opportunities that sending out inexperienced resumes will miss. To answer your question “What is the best way for no experience self-taught developer to get the first junior to mid level job?”, Randell’s suggestion is solid (you’ll see from my resume below I did a similar thing). You might get the job…can you really keep up with the expectations of someone with way more experience than you? You might get an offer - but will your references verify that you did good work with them as a dev for 3 years? You may land some interviews - but how well could you really fare in keeping up the pretence? If someone has 3 years experience in a professional environment, the exposure they have had to issues such as scalability, maintainability, and sheer complexity of codebases would make it pretty difficult to bluff your way through if you did not have that lived experience personally. I understand the desire to pad your resume with things that didn’t happen if it feels like you don’t get noticed without it, but in the long term that can only lead to trouble.
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