Booting Up: Bootcamp Week 14 - Interview, Resumes, Projects
Tags: bootcamp, career, react, javascript
Published: 2020-01-20 06:47:26

# Juggling, Juggling, Juggling!

![alt text](https://media.giphy.com/media/rk0bnorYhwv96/giphy.gif)

With my career track progressing and and our final project in full swing, my life has been very, very busy. In synopsis, here's what happened:

## Career Coaching

I worked with my career coach to work on my online presence and prep my job application materials.

### Preparing My Resume

I would like to pursue a full stack developer job, and after discussing with my career coach, we decided it would be good for me to have multiple versions of my resume.

- A more design (creative) form of my resume (to target more front-end oriented jobs)
- A technical-skills oriented resume (for back-end jobs).
- A template resume that holds all of my experience for when I need that data

**For The Design Oriented Resume** I am using [Canva](https://www.canva.com/). It's a really great tool for personalizing a resume without having to configure settings in a design suite like CorelDraw or Photoshop. I haven't quite finished this resume (because of the juggling of tasks) but I am scoped to have all versions of my resume ready by graduation (next week!).

**For The Technical Oriented Resume** I will also be using [Canva](https://www.canva.com/), but will packing more 'word' information rather than making it creative.

**For My Resume Template** I built this using a simple word editor. It has links to my github repositories and even this blog! If you're curious what it looks like, you can see a part of it below!
![Alt Text](https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/jykf8h4kqz9ag1sxel1s.png).

### Looking at my LinkedIn

I'll be honest, I haven't really used much of LinkedIn in my previous career (and I definitely should have). My coach gave me some great feedback regarding my current account. Looking at [my LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawn-huang-fernandes-24b450194/), it should include:

- Your Photo (**Still Need To Add, Going To DIY it with my DSLR!**)
- A Good Headliner describing what you are seeking
- A meaningful About Section
- Your (professional) Experience
- Your Projects with links (**Still Need To Add**)
- Your Presence such as blogs or portfolio website (**Still Need To Add**)
- Your Volunteer Experience
- Your Skills
- Your Endorsements (**Still Need to Add**)
- Your Connections (**Still Need to Add**)

I am planning on having my Linkedin fully ready before I graduate next week (again... trying to juggle).

![alt text](https://media.giphy.com/media/E0vIY4TIqZwepFScYy/giphy.gif)

### Technical Interview + Cultural Interview

I had scheduled a Technical Interview via Skilled, and it went pretty well. It was a Javascript interview that more or less was gauging how well I knew ES6 Javascript. I had a single interviewer who gave me awesome feedback. I realized I am still pretty weak on CSS and HTML so I'll be diving into W3 Schools to make sure my skills are sharp before I do real interviews. The actual feedback I got can be found [here](https://www.skilledinc.com/report-card/3461).

My coach will be conducting my cultural interview next week. I was instructed to provide one or two of my "ideal" companies that I'd like to work for, so my coach and structure the interview accordingly. So, I guess that means I'll be doing more... you guessed it, JUGGLING!

![alt text](https://media.giphy.com/media/BvjoYFizIt5yU/giphy.gif)

## Wait Did I Mention My Project?

So asides from career stuff, I am also working on my final project - called **FlexABLE**. It's a workout recording web application using Rails as a backend and React as the front end. 

I promise I will do a full synopsis and lessons learned of the project at the end of the next week (aka GRADUATION). Here's basically what happened with the project during the past week:

- Built out front-end and backend authentication
- Immediately started using Material UI (a styling library) to pull in components to populate the views I had mocked up beyond the login page
- Began having minor issues with integrating Material UI components, event handlers, and redux. Tried to "bandaid" all the coding issues that were coming up
- Upon debugging complex redux issues, began having cascading issues because of the "spaghetti code" I was writing, decided to redo a large part of the project to clean up the code
- (as of yesterday) rebuilt all the old views with modular components, proper commenting, and regular git commits
- Removed part of the original scope of the project to focus on styling instead of rushing to add features

I learned a ton from the mistakes I caused for myself during this project, and I'd love to dive into those in detail to help you all out! I'll be doing that next week! Stay tuned!

![alt text](https://media.giphy.com/media/26DN5ukGJF2uakiPu/giphy.gif)

Good luck with your own "juggling"!
Shawn