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May 24, 2013 at 9:46 history migrated from programmers.stackexchange.com (revisions)
May 24, 2013 at 9:44 comment added Matt I completely understand wanting to communicate this experience. I am talking purely about the future here. As an employer, an unspecified, unfinished project gives very little to go on. You may be better off discussing it as dedicated, structured self-driven learning, describing functionality x, y and z which you can now implement. Since you're not giving detail about the app, I'd feel that the context of an unfinished app adds little value to the discussion and may come across as defensive, which some recruiters won't like.
May 24, 2013 at 9:31 comment added J. Berman @Matt This project was a "main-project". I wasn't employed nor attending classes while I was working on the project. And, I have no intention to work on this project if I get hired. I would just like to appeal my experience as a junior mobile developer because my university does not teach anything about mobile development (therefore this experience takes up huge portion of my mobile development experience).
May 24, 2013 at 9:21 comment added Matt I agree that it's good to have worked on something while not employed. However, if you're not even willing to share the objective of the app, I would take that to mean that you potentially still see this as your number one priority. That might worry me as a recruiter, as I'd want work projects to take priority.
May 24, 2013 at 9:17 comment added haylem Depends, if he was employed at the same time, then "side-project" may indeed give a wrong idea. It's all about how he presents it though. Doesn't need to say he was going at it 80hours a week or anything. If he wasn't employed at the time, then that's fine, that sounds like a valuable sabbathical to me.
May 24, 2013 at 9:14 history answered Matt CC BY-SA 3.0