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指南与解析
关于 GitHub 个人资料、能通过求职者跟踪系统的简历，以及如何在不下错结论的前提下解读开发者公开作品的长文。
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#github#career#hiring
Do recruiters actually check your GitHub?
Who actually looks at a candidate's GitHub profile during hiring, what they look for when they do, and what a profile needs to hold up to that kind of scrutiny.
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#github#copilot#contributions#explainer
Does using GitHub Copilot show up on your profile?
Whether AI-assisted commits are marked differently on GitHub, what actually appears on your contribution graph, and what that means if you use Copilot regularly.
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#resume#ats#career
The complete guide to getting your resume past an ATS
How applicant tracking systems actually parse a resume, the specific formatting choices that break that parsing, and a full checklist to test your own resume against.
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#github#how-to#beginner
Forking vs. cloning a GitHub repository
The practical difference between forking and cloning on GitHub, when to use each one, and how to actually do both from the command line.
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#resume#career#how-to
Resume format: chronological, functional, or combination?
The three standard resume formats explained, which one fits which situation, and why the chronological format is the safest default for most applicants.
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#resume#career#students
How to make a resume for your first job
How to build a credible resume with little or no formal work history, using education, projects and volunteer work to fill the space experience would otherwise take.
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#github#explainer
Is GitHub free?
What GitHub actually gives you for free, where the paid tiers start to matter, and why most individual developers never need to pay for it.
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#resume#career#how-to
What is a cover letter, and do you still need one?
What a cover letter is for, when it actually gets read, and how to write one that adds something a resume cannot say on its own.
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#career#github#how-to
Adding your resume and GitHub profile to LinkedIn
Where to actually upload a resume PDF on LinkedIn, how to link your GitHub profile properly, and why the two should say the same thing.
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#resume#career#github
Why people exaggerate on resumes, and the case for verifiable work
Why resume exaggeration happens, why it usually gets caught, and why evidence a reviewer can check directly is a stronger position than any claim, true or not.
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#resume#career#how-to
What is a resume summary, and do you need one?
What a resume summary is for, how it differs from an objective statement, and a simple structure for writing one that actually earns its place at the top of the page.
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#github#explainer#career
What is GitHub Actions?
What GitHub Actions does, how a workflow file actually works, and whether CI/CD experience built with it is worth mentioning on a resume.
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#github#students#career
The GitHub Student Developer Pack, explained
What the GitHub Student Developer Pack actually includes, who qualifies, and how to turn a semester of using it into a resume that shows real, verifiable work.
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#github#explainer
Who owns GitHub?
GitHub's ownership history in brief, from an independent startup to a Microsoft subsidiary, and what changed for developers after the acquisition.
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#github#github-pages#resume#how-to
Hosting your resume or portfolio on GitHub Pages
How GitHub Pages works, what it is actually good for, and where it stops being the right tool once you need a resume that recruiters can search and parse.
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#resume#ai#github#career
AI resume builders vs. building yours from GitHub
What AI resume builders actually generate, where that content comes from, and why a resume built from real repository data is a different, more verifiable kind of shortcut.
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#resume#career
How long should a resume be?
The actual reasoning behind the one-page guideline, when two pages is genuinely correct, and why cutting length is usually an editing problem rather than a formatting one.
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#resume#career#how-to
What to put on a resume, section by section
A section-by-section breakdown of what belongs on a resume, what commonly gets included but should not, and how the answer changes based on how much experience you have.
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#resume#skills#career
What skills to put on a resume, and how many
How to choose which skills belong on a technical resume, why a shorter list usually reads as stronger, and how to group them so a recruiter can scan them in seconds.
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#resume#templates#ats
Free resume templates worth using (and how to check one first)
What separates a genuinely useful free resume template from one that will get mangled by an applicant tracking system, plus a quick test you can run on any template before committing to it.
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#resume#career#ats
How to make a resume stand out (without gimmicks)
What actually catches a reviewer's attention in the ten seconds they give a resume, and why most of the tactics people call "standing out" backfire in an ATS.
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#resume#career#how-to
How to write a resume, step by step
A practical order of operations for writing a resume from nothing: what to gather first, how to structure each section, and the most common mistakes to check for before sending it.
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#cv#resume#career#explainer
CV vs. resume: what's the difference?
How CVs and resumes actually differ in length, content and purpose, and why the right answer depends on your country and industry rather than a fixed rule.
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#cv#career#explainer
What is a CV?
What a CV is, how the term is used differently in the US versus the UK and Europe, and when an academic CV genuinely needs to run longer than one page.
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#resume#career#explainer
What is a resume?
What a resume actually is, what it is for, and the small set of things every version has in common regardless of format or industry.
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#github#explainer#beginner
How to use GitHub: a beginner's walkthrough
The handful of things you actually need to know to start using GitHub: creating a repository, making your first commit, and the difference between a commit and a push.
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#github#explainer#beginner
What is GitHub, actually?
A plain explanation of what GitHub is, what Git has to do with it, and why so many job applications now ask for a profile link instead of a portfolio PDF.
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#github#contributions#explainer
How the GitHub contribution graph actually works
What counts as a contribution, what does not, why your graph looks emptier than your year felt, and how to read someone else’s graph without drawing the wrong conclusions.
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#github#profile#career
How to write a GitHub profile README that is actually worth reading
A practical guide to the special profile repository: what to put in it, what to leave out, and why most profile READMEs fail the ten-second test.
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#resume#ats#career
Jake's Resume template, explained
Why the most-recommended LaTeX resume template for engineers works so well, what each section is doing, and how to keep its advantages if you are not using LaTeX.