The Complete Freelance Developer Business System
by Tom Eriksen
A complete job-search system: portfolio projects, a resume that passes, interviews you win.
MH Created by Marcus Hale
Every bullet below is something you will have built, shipped or be able to explain by the time you finish the last lesson.
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
Short list, and deliberately so. If you meet these you can start today.
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.
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Web engineer and JavaScript educator
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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