Why tailor a project to a posting
Because hiring people compare literally. If a posting asks for a particular set of technologies and your project uses different ones, you're screened out before anyone reads the description — even if you'd cope fine.
That isn't pedantry. Someone has forty applications and an hour: they're looking for matches.
How to read postings
Take five to seven roles you'd apply for and put the requirements in a table. Half an hour later you'll see:
- What appears everywhere. That's the mandatory minimum, and what your project should be built on.
- What appears half the time. Nice to have; add it if it's cheap.
- What appears once. Don't chase it.
Usually the core turns out to be a language, one framework, a database and something for deployment. That set is enough.
Applying it
Take the stack from the overlap. Not the fashionable one — the requested one.
Consider the domain too. Aiming at a company building business services? Build something with records, reports and access rights, not a game.
Show what they check for. If postings mention tests, write tests. If containers, deploy in a container. It's cheaper than it looks and removes several questions at once.
What not to do
Don't write a separate project per posting — there isn't enough life. One project on the core stack that covers most requirements is enough.
And don't inflate your technology list for the sake of ticks. Three you genuinely know beat ten you've read about.
What to write in the application
Connect the project to the requirements directly: "you're asking for these things — here's a project where I did exactly that, link". One sentence that saves the reader time and sharply raises the chance the link gets opened.
What adds weight
If the project was built with a team and your contribution is confirmed — with the technologies you actually worked with recorded — the stack match stops being words on a CV. It becomes checkable: who confirmed it, and what you genuinely worked on there.
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