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How to tailor your resume for a Frontend Developer role

A screener on a Frontend Developer posting clicks your portfolio link before reading a single bullet, so a broken or slow one erases everything above it. After that, they look for the framework named in the posting and one shipped result: load time, conversion, a metric tied to the interface you built.

Four moves for this posting
  1. Put your live portfolio link at the very top of the resume, tested on a phone, above your skills section; a broken link on this resume ends the read before it starts.
  2. Match the framework name in your top bullet to the exact framework named in the posting; a resume naming one framework when the posting names another reads as a mismatch.
  3. Attach a performance or accessibility number to your strongest project, like a load-time or audit score you personally raised; postings for this role reward evidence over adjectives.
  4. Drop older static-site or template work below your shipped app work when the posting asks for component-based frameworks; recent stack match outranks tenure on the page.
The fact behind this

Recruiters spend about 7 seconds on a first resume scan. (Ladders eye-tracking study)

Before you tailor anything

Start with the version a recruiter opens right now, then make these moves against it.

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