Ask HN: Would you hire me if this was my resume?

You're 18, you have no right to use the word plethora. What will you use when you're 19?

Your CV is too long. Meant to fit on 2 pages.

Remove all color. Black and white only! If you must have color then make a snazzy website.

You are talking about your technical skills, this is meant to be on a cover letter, take Jquery for example, you mention

"This is a very useful prototype framework, eases and simplifies my everyday job a lot more than if I was using javascript alone."

Chances are that your future employer knows all about this! Why even mention this line?

Often you need to tailor your previous experiences to the job your applying to. I take it you want to work in security rather than development? Do I have the right impression?

Btw, where are your hobbies and other interests outside of coding/being on the web? Often people are hired who are a good fit for the company, simply being a shit hot developer is sometimes not enough.

Best of luck with the job search though, this should get you a lot of exposure, tips and tricks.

This is subjective but it's not a very fine tuned CV. I would still interview you (there is something there for sure :)). It is a great start though; and this is how I would personally improve it...

First off the prose is a little up/down. One one hand there is a lot of Buzzword jargon and on the other you have sections like the Pornhub job - which reads like a novella. :)

Little asides aren't all that useful (e.g. ", fun experience" in the CakePHP section) - it's good to be casual/funny in a CV, but not like that.

CV's should be entirely jargon free, written in the simplest of English and avoid long paragraphs

Back to the Pornhub section. No hiring manager will care how you got the job. They care about two things - what you did, and why you left. You also list a lot of work

You should keep the section fairly rigid - naming the job, employer (if possible) and a short bulleted list of:

- things you did

- responsibilities you had

- stuff you learned about

These could be technical things, or social "teamworking" things.

Listing Jobs on a CV is crucial - but keep them succinct and informative

Under technical skills you've basically listed Programming languages/frameworks. There is no need to put a remark for each one. Managers will know what they all are (and if not - it's irrelevant to them) and will really be only interested in your experience with them.

You've also mentioned a lot of security testing in the jobs section - but no mention of that here? If you are good at it these are your most marketable skills!!

If I write a CV for someone I usually write the "mundane skills" like programming languages as a list with the length/amount of experience. Follow that up with a short prose section "I started programming in PHP at the age of 15 and quickly progressed into other languages, picking up OOP and MVC as I went...".

Then I would deal with the marketable skills - stuff you can offer than no one else can. Either as an extended list (preferred) or prose.

In a CV you need to plug why you are an asset - knowing programming languages is only a marketable skill if you're in the upper echelons of said language :)

Education is your best section (though a little more information about classes you took might add colour).

What you are missing is an "about you" section. For me this about the most important bit; you have to sell yourself and your interests and someone who will be an asset to the company. You should explain, for example, some of your relevant interests (no one cares you read and swim :)). I usually talk about my interest in social networking and how people interact, my belief in privacy and how that syncs with working in the security/forensic industry.

Be passionate.

Some final tips:

- Bullet points on CV's are fine, I'd even say encouraged

- Brevity is a gift. Us poor hirers have to sift through hundreds of these a year - make it easy on us :)

- Formatting is only useful if your applying for a design job. Tasteful highlighting is fine but otherwise 12pt text, nicely spaced with neat headings is preferred

- At least once mention about working in a team and how you got on with that.

- Discuss your aspirations in a way that a) appears to benefit the company but b) does not compete with it and c) does not make assumptions about possible promotion/career paths at said company - e.g. "Long term I want to become a leading expert in the field of fuzz vulnerability testing"

That's all I can think of now. Bear in mind this is just me (though a lot of what I say will be mirrored by others) and the kind of CV I prefer.

But hopefully there are some tips of use :)

Also, you list your title as back end developer, but javascript, jquery and web development are all front end related. PHP and Ruby are also web related, and so even though you often do back end work with them, having them along with javascript and jquery make you seem like a front end developer. So, change up your title or start mentioning more back end technologies you've worked with.

Remove your age, not relevant and people will disregard you as inexperienced, judging you for your age before they even talk to you. Good luck!

You'd tell him that your skills matter and your age doesn't, right?

So why mention your age at all in a document that's supposed to be about your skills?

While finding someone who's curious, smart, and capable at a young age is what I've looked for when hiring junior technical people - (I want the real hackers, not the paper graduates who can't think for themselves) - the trick is in weeding out those who think they already know it all and are above everyone else, making them difficult to work with, and potentially dangerous to a team in the long run.

Some of what is in your CV belongs in a cover letter tailored to the job you are applying for - stick to clear skills and experience and keep it short. Put the details and adjectives, if you feel it's really necessary, in the cover letter - and keep that short too - save the rest for the interview... because that's where, at least in smaller shops, the real test is - whether you are going to fit into the team or not.

The summary here is that you shouldn't interpret what you have done. Just communicate the facts. If I happen to think that one can spend a lifetime mastering a programming language, then you've already put up a barrier between us. If you had spared me the interpretation and had just told me that you've been programming PHP (or insert favorite language) for 4 years and that you love it, you'd be off to a much better start.

* I would also consider putting page numbers on them (In a small font, so if people print it out they can easily sort them)

* Also what paper settings are you using, It seems landscape to me? Use A4 or Letter (Depending on your local standard) and portrait mode, since most bosses like just to pile up the resumes and other documents they receive together and to be able to easily look at them, Having to flip them around is just a pain.

1) There are three points in your resume (page 1, 2 and last page) where there is a title, 1 point and the rest is on the next page. Try to keep each job on the same page where possible.

2) For most recent graduates a resume of about 2 pages is generally expected & appropriate.

Hope this helps.

Also, make your profile one concise paragraph. I like the non-bullshit words in it right now, but trim it.

Horrible fluff, too informal style for the rest of the document, like you're trying to befriend the reader of a fiction story.

"After talking, I began working a located many more security problems that needed to take precaution."

It's nonsense, how did that get past your proof read... oh.

It looks like you have some good points to make, but I'd never have found them if I wasn't hunting for things to comment on. Good bits:

Pornhub - keep the job in; finding a vulnerability, reporting it and turning it into a job, that's a great thing to have in there. Maybe describe it as a site with however many users/hits/revenue and more details available.

PHP, Javascript, jQuery experience. Knowledge of XSS/SQLi/salted password hashes.

Security flaw finding - if you did any for money then put that as work, if you did any for free put that as some kind of personal development / evidence of interest.

MyTrueColor, Shuckit, Neverblue - draw more attention to these as examples of motivation and interest (if they are valid - mytruecolor and shuck.it don't seem to load).

Github similar site - Yes keep this (what did you do, specifically?)

What competitions did you win?

Rewrite it into a page or so and keep the focus on what you did / can do in technical terms, what you have done, and what you want to do for {prospective employer}.