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I've had about 6 interviews so far, I always know the answers to the technical questions and yet they never pass me on to the next round. How come? I had one interview where the CEO told me to my face I was a strong candidate but I was still ghosted right after.
Is there something I can improve on in my resume? Thank you
It is strange that you can’t land a job with those skills.
You have great skills, especially the ones with your latest position ,i have a similar problem, tho , but icant land a job either, and i have 4 years of experience with wp.
So idk what the problem is.
It could be that there are many wp developers in the field 🤷‍♂️
I would consider dropping the bullet points describing specific projects and write from a higher level that describes your role and responsibilities instead.
> Full-stack Development position responsible for the creation of multiple custom WordPress projects, including e-commerce sites from concept to completion. Created applications for data automation, API consumption and content optimization. Developed WordPress plugins for a variety of solutions including optimizing schema markup and data synchronization. Responsible for client WCAG compliance.
That’s a rough of how I would do your latest job. Get into the details when you get the interview.
What is your personality like?
Market is pretty rough atm for pretty much all devs unfortunately… the one suggestion to use a more high level overview of your role rather than bulley points is a good note. Likely just need to keep applying. You’ll find something!
I don’t see anything wrong with your rĂ©sumĂ©.
What kind of companies are you applying to? What kind of annual revenues are they doing? What is their annual marketing budget?
If you are only interested in a full-time employment role, I would recommend someone with your experience and skills needs to focus on two targets:
1) Companies with $100M+ ARR and $10M+/year marketing budgets
These companies have enough cashflow and budget to justify employing full-time web developers. In these companies, you would be one of several on a team, and companies at this size and scale that are growing will continue to need more labor as they continue to grow, so they are hiring quickly and may be more willing to give you a chance.
Smaller companies have less room for error as they are hiring fewer people and so each hire needs to have a high ROI, so there’s a lot of incentive to minimize risk and uncertainty, which means more difficult candidate selection/interviewing processes, and less likelihood of success unless you are exactly the unicorn candidate they are searching for.
2) Agencies that provide web development services, who can bring you on as labor for their engagements
If you’re not in the mood to try and get a job at a larger company I described in #1 above, then someone with your years of experience is likely too expensive for a single smaller company, but you could join an agency that has many small companies as clients, and you would just help the agency service their clients needs. If you’re effective and efficient, you could justify the compensation that someone with your experience is looking for, spread out across multiple small companies through the agency.
Of course, there are many factors that go into interviewing and the candidate selection process, and only seeing your résumé is a very incomplete picture of who you are and how you come across during the process, but I think my recommendation above is likely to still be relevant, but may not be sufficient, depending on the other aspects of how you interview and present yourself, etc.