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Now you may be asking yourself, What if I have no coding experience?

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How do I go and create a resume if I've never done anything in the development world before?

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Well, to put it simply, you may be suffering with imposter syndrome, and imposter syndrome may be

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a feeling like you are a phony, and you may feel as though you are going to be found out as a fraud

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at any moment.

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And you don't belong.

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But you need to understand that you have to apply to jobs that you are underqualified for.

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It's all part of the process, and it's how you can eventually actually learn, expand and grow.

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So sometimes a job will appear harder than it really is in order to weed out junior developers and those

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who are afraid of hard work.

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So if you have no experience, you may just be telling yourself that and you may actually know a lot

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more than you think you do.

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Even without any past programming experience.

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You can work on 1 to 2 big projects to gain that valuable experience in your desired programming field.

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Now, this should be a project that has a certain level of difficulty, and you want it to give you

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credibility and serve as a talking point for not only your resume and your freelance profile's, but

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also within the interviews you have with clients.

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Now, this can help you massively if you are starting out with little to no work experience or history

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in your industry and you're looking to get started freelancing as soon as possible.

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All the different projects that you work on will be displayed on your resume, your online portfolio,

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as well as your freelance and your social media profiles.

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So those jobs are very important.

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And those projects, if you don't have any jobs, are very important because that is what you use as

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your foundation to lay the groundwork that you will later build your entire career upon.

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If you have no idea where to get started on a new project, you can check out GitHub, which gives you

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the ability to work on open source projects to gain experience and to showcase your work.

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GitHub is an awesome website because it's a code hosting platform for version control and collaboration.

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It lets you and others work together on projects from anywhere in the world, and millions of developers

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and companies build, ship and maintain their software on GitHub, the largest and most advanced development

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platform in the world.

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Another way to gain experience and to showcase the projects you have worked on is blogging, such as

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on websites like Medium.com.

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You can learn from others in your specific niche by staying up to date on recent trends, as well as

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learn the fundamentals from different industry experts that are sharing them on their own blog.

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On the other hand, if you want to go the other route, you can demonstrate your own knowledge and your

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specific skills and what your interests are by creating your own blog on medium.

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It's another great talking point that not only gives you things to talk about and to reference, but

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it also builds credibility for your resume, your profiles, and to ultimately create a better personal

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brand for yourself as a freelancer.

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On top of that, if you want to go even more above and beyond, you can create your own website that

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will show clients that you can walk the walk.

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Now, before you think this may be too advanced for you, this doesn't have to be a 100% from scratch

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customized website.

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And if you are brand new, it probably shouldn't be.

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You can get started on WordPress using a template as a starting point and customize it from there.

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And this can actually turn into one of your projects that you can showcase if your website can serve

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a specific function or if you want it to host your portfolio.

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I'll see you in the next lesson.