A bootcamp graduate resume leads with a projects section written like work experience — deployed apps, real users, quantified outcomes — and lists the bootcamp in education with its hours and stack. You are competing with degree holders on evidence, not credentials, so the resume's center of gravity is what you built and shipped, not where you trained.
Create a Projects section directly under your summary and format each entry like a job: project name, stack, date, and two or three outcome bullets. Built and deployed a full-stack booking app (React, Node, Postgres) with authentication and payments; 40 registered users in the first month. Live links matter — deployed URL and repository — because clickable evidence separates you from every resume that merely claims skills.
Choose depth over count. Three substantial projects with real users, tests, and deployment beat eight tutorial clones, and interviewers will probe whichever you list. A capstone extended beyond the curriculum is the strongest single signal a bootcamp resume can carry.
The bootcamp lives in education: program name, completion date, total hours, and the stack covered — 24-week full-stack program, 800+ hours, JavaScript, React, Node, SQL. The hours number does quiet work against the assumption that bootcamps are shallow. If you hold a prior degree in any field, list it too; the combination reads as a deliberate career investment, and the earlier degree carries its own signals.
Do not title yourself by the bootcamp — your summary should say what you are now: full-stack developer with a shipped-project portfolio, transitioning from five years in logistics. The prior career is an asset; domain knowledge plus new technical skills is a combination employers pay for.
Everything a bootcamp grad claims should be checkable in one click: an active repository history (green squares over months read as discipline), deployed projects that load, a LinkedIn matching the resume, and any freelance or volunteer builds for real clients — a site for a local business is paid-adjacent experience and belongs in projects with the client named.
Then tailor per posting. Junior listings are keyword-screened heavily, and your stack section should mirror the posting's exact names — the free tailoring pass matters more at entry level than anywhere else. Apply to roles asking for the stack you actually know; a focused hit rate beats a broad spray.
Increasingly yes, but on evidence rather than the credential: deployed projects, clean repositories, and real users carry the argument. The bootcamp line establishes training hours; the projects section wins or loses the screen. Treat the resume as a portfolio index.
Keep them in a Projects section formatted like experience — jobs and projects mixed in one section can read as inflation if spotted. The exception is client work: a project built for a real business, even unpaid, can sit in experience as freelance work.
Yes, compressed. Prior work proves professional reliability and often contributes domain knowledge relevant to employers in that industry. Two to four lines per recent role, framed around transferable outcomes, below your projects and technical sections.
Paste a junior job posting into the free tailoring tool to see which of its stack keywords your resume carries — entry-level screens are the most keyword-driven of all.
