6 steps to land your first front end web developer job in 2025

If you struggle learning how to code, you stuck in a tutorial hell, you have spent hundred and thousand of money on a paid course and still you didnt land any job to a point you are about give up. This video is going to change your whole perspective because by the end of this video you will obtained a blueprint on how to land a front end web developer in 3 month

3 year ago i self-taught myself how to code in 3 month and land a job as a front end web developer. Fast forward today i have build my first saas product and make money from it. I currently building my second product and while im doing those im also working as full stack web developer. And now im on a bigger mission , im going to use the superpower called coding to build something from nothing to achieve the impossible called freedom. The freedom to create. The freedom to live anywhere you want in a world. The financial freedom. The freedom of time. The freedom to have breakfast and lunch with your dear one’s anytime and anywhere in the world. So enough said, lets begin.

1. Step 1 - Mindset

   1. In order for you land you first job, you do not need to learn everything, use the 80/20 rule where you focus on the 20% effort that give you the biggest impact. You only need to learn a specific technologies that catch the attention of future employer to make you the right fit for their company. I’ll share with you step by step how to do it

2. Step 2 - HTML ( Hypertext Markup Language )

   1. So imagine this , a human body consist of bone , muscle & blood, so HTML is the bone in a web appplication structure. While you are learning HTML do not memorize all the HTML tag, learn just enough to understand concept and how it works in web application.

   2. Go through all the HTML tag (Don’t memorize tag)

   3. Understand the concept is good enough

3. Step 3 - CSS ( Cascading Style Sheets )

   1. If html is the bare bone for the web application, CSS is the muscle. The purpose off CSS is to hold together the html component, to beautify it, to create animation and motion so that the web application is not just a boring black and white but it splashes the art.

   2. Go through it (Don’t memorize every CSS tag)

   3. Understand the concept is good enough

4. Step 4 - Javascript

   1. Here comes the superpower to create something from nothing. Javascript represent the blood , its a programming language where it do all the magic in web application, where it move data around files, it pull data from internet, it make animation talk to each other, it control web application security and plenty more

   2. While you are learning Javascript Do not rush, Take time to understand all the concepts of the programming language, as it is a powerful tool that allows you to create something from nothing. And these are at least the basic key concept that you need to know

   3. Variable

   4. Data type

   5. Function

   6. Code block

   7. Data structure

   8. Object oriented concept

   9. http request protocol

5. Step 5 - React.js

   1. We have learn html, css & javascript and now why do we need to learn react? most importantly what is React.js ? Think like this, React.js is a steroid to make web application as powerful as we seen today. React.js is a widely use frontend framework, imagine big company like facebook and netflix web app are powered by React.js. React solves various important web development challenges, notably those related to creating dynamic and responsive user interfaces.

   2. Similar like learning javascript. Do not rush, Take time to understand all the concepts of the React. js. as it is the perfect sidekick to Javascript. And these are at least the basic key concept that you need to know

   3. useState

   4. useEffect

   5. useContext

   6. useMemo

   7. useRef

   8. props

   9. React router

6. Step 6 - Build a portfolio

   1. After you have collected the 4 infinity gem stone, html, css, javscript, and react.js. Its for you to snap your fingers and build a personal web porfolio to showcase eveything that you have learn previously.

   2. The key here is to build something that makes you excited so that when you face an issue during development, you not going to give up because you really want to see your idea becomes reality.

   3. During development make sure to include these features in your web application.

   4. HTTP request - to show how you use code to talk with another application

   5. Push your project changes to github - to prove that you familiar with the industry control versioning

   6. Workable application - To show that you able to build a working application

   7. Deploy public - To with your potential employer

When you have done with the portfolio. Now you are ready to land a job. This is exactly my strategy 3 years ago, because im from a enterprenuer and engineering background where im able to understand a concept where most people dont.

Now you apply every front end web developer position in every job application website. Do not bother about the tech stack listed in the job application as long its a front end web dev position, you must apply.

So what is the game plan here. In all your job application you are going to hook these 2 types of company to hire you

1. Startup company

   1. Willing to pay you below average salary.

   2. Limited budget

   3. Taking risk hiring junior

   4. They dont have strict requirement

2. Software house company

   1. Business model is a project based business

   2. They are making profit based on the man hours claim or project sum value

   3. They will take risk hiring junior developer so they can earn higher profit margin

   4. They dont have strict requirement

So all these step is the exact roadmap and strategy that i use to land my first job as a front end web developer in 3 month. If you are still watching this video and you still not confident to go through on this journey. I’ll show you my portfolio that land me my first tech job.

Its a Pokemon browsing web app, im using react.js as a front end web framework and free open source pokeApi to pull and display pokemon data. This app is very basic, its does not contain any wow factor, it just a plain browsing pokemon application. But it land me a job

I have realize the core problem in your journey, the reason why you still havent land any coding job is not because you are not smart enough, but you unable to stay consistent in your learning journey. I have identify this serious problem , so i created a solution for that. With this 10 pages ebook, you will be able to print it out and stick it to your wall so you can stare at it everyday and it remind you that “JOB NOT FINISH” so can stay consistent and stick to the mission. The content of this ebook contain a learning resources so that you dont have to scrap the internet to find a learning material, i have preapred it for you, and it have a weekly checkbox where you can update it on a weekly basis on what you have learned. You can get this ebook on a link description below

If you feel that you need more clarity on going to this path to become a programmer or to provide a custom roadmap or a career advice specific to your situation before you start investing thousand of money into expensive coding bootcamp or college and spend years just to land a coding job, you can book me a call. Link in a description below

My final advice is do not give up, stay consistent. Everything i shared in this video is more than enought for you to start your journey. In order for you to get somthing you never had, you need to do somthing that you never done before. Im not going to lie It’s going to be tough but its worth it because you a learning to aquire a superpower called coding.

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