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Land the Developer Job: Portfolio, Resume and Interviews

A complete job-search system: portfolio projects, a resume that passes, interviews you win.

22 students

MH Created by Marcus Hale

  • Last updated August 2026
  • English
  • 7h 20m of material
  • 55 lessons

What you will learn

8 concrete outcomes

Every bullet below is something you will have built, shipped or be able to explain by the time you finish the last lesson.

  • Position yourself for the role you can genuinely win right now
  • Build two finished, deployed portfolio projects instead of eleven abandoned ones
  • Rewrite a resume to lead with outcomes and survive automated screening
  • Send short cover notes that actually get replies
  • Think out loud in a technical screen without freezing
  • Deliver a take-home with a trade-off note that sets you apart
  • Prepare honest behavioural stories that answer what was really asked
  • Handle the salary conversation without naming a number first

Course curriculum

7 modules · 55 lessons · 7h 20m of material

8 lessons running 1h in total. Each lesson ships with the finished source files and a short written recap, so you can follow along in your own editor and skim the module again later.

Lesson-by-lesson titles, code downloads and exercises live inside the course library you get access to straight after checkout.

8 lessons running 1h 4m in total. Each lesson ships with the finished source files and a short written recap, so you can follow along in your own editor and skim the module again later.

Lesson-by-lesson titles, code downloads and exercises live inside the course library you get access to straight after checkout.

8 lessons running 1h 6m in total. Each lesson ships with the finished source files and a short written recap, so you can follow along in your own editor and skim the module again later.

Lesson-by-lesson titles, code downloads and exercises live inside the course library you get access to straight after checkout.

8 lessons running 1h 8m in total. Each lesson ships with the finished source files and a short written recap, so you can follow along in your own editor and skim the module again later.

Lesson-by-lesson titles, code downloads and exercises live inside the course library you get access to straight after checkout.

8 lessons running 1h 2m in total. Each lesson ships with the finished source files and a short written recap, so you can follow along in your own editor and skim the module again later.

Lesson-by-lesson titles, code downloads and exercises live inside the course library you get access to straight after checkout.

8 lessons running 1h in total. Each lesson ships with the finished source files and a short written recap, so you can follow along in your own editor and skim the module again later.

Lesson-by-lesson titles, code downloads and exercises live inside the course library you get access to straight after checkout.

7 lessons running 1h in total. Each lesson ships with the finished source files and a short written recap, so you can follow along in your own editor and skim the module again later.

Lesson-by-lesson titles, code downloads and exercises live inside the course library you get access to straight after checkout.

7 modules · 55 lessons

7h 20m total length

Requirements

Short list, and deliberately so. If you meet these you can start today.

  • You can build a small application in at least one language
  • Willingness to finish and deploy two projects during the course
  • No prior interview experience assumed

About this course

Job searching is a skill with almost no relationship to the skill of writing software, which is why excellent engineers sometimes struggle for months while weaker candidates get offers. This course treats the search as its own discipline and gives you a system to run, rather than advice to feel encouraged by.

It begins with positioning. What kind of role you are actually a strong candidate for today, which adjacent roles are reachable with two months of deliberate work, and how to describe yourself in a sentence that makes a hiring manager keep reading. Then the portfolio, built on a single unpopular principle: two finished, deployed, documented projects beat eleven abandoned repositories, and the course shows precisely what finished means, including the README that decides whether anyone clicks further.

The application material follows. A resume rewritten to lead with outcomes and numbers rather than responsibilities, formatted to survive automated screening. Cover notes that are three sentences long and get replies.

The second half is interviews. Technical screens and how to think out loud without falling silent. System design at a level a mid-level candidate is genuinely asked. Finally the negotiation conversation, with exact wording for the moment they ask your expectations and you should not answer first.

Frequently asked questions

Still unsure about something? Write to misteryjj100@gmail.com and a human answers, usually the same working day.

No. Resume examples and interview material are provided at junior, mid and senior levels, and the negotiation module is most valuable to experienced candidates.

It teaches how to approach them and how to practise efficiently, but it is not a problem set. It focuses on the parts of the search that most candidates neglect.

Yes. Resume templates, README and cover note templates, a story preparation worksheet and a negotiation script are all behind your access link.

Checkout is handled on our provider's secure payment page. The moment your payment clears we email your personal access link and access code to the address you used at checkout, and the same link appears in your account library. There is nothing to install and nothing to wait for.

Email misteryjj100@gmail.com within 14 days of your purchase, quote your order number, and we refund the full amount to your original payment method. No form to fill in and no questions about how much of the course you watched.

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Your instructor

MH

Marcus Hale

Web engineer and JavaScript educator

  • 259 students taught
  • 12 courses published
  • 4.7 instructor rating
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Node.js

Marcus has shipped front ends for two ad-tech startups and one very large retailer, which taught him more about performance budgets than any blog post could. He teaches JavaScript and TypeScript from the runtime up — event loop first, framework second — then follows the same code through Node on the server side. Every one of his courses ends with a deployed application rather than a folder of exercises. He writes a weekly newsletter on browser performance.

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