How to make my GitHub standout as a fresher
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Hi everyone, I wanted to get some insights on how you guys structure your GitHub page to look like so it feels personalized, well-made and not AI generated? I'm a fresher just starting out in my career, I would love to get tips, especially from recruiters, on how to make my profile look good and not fake. One tip I've received in feedback from an interviewer is to not put extremely complex projects that I obviously made Claude write and I just learnt the theory of it.
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Pin two or three projects you can explain in detail. In each README, show the problem, how to run it, and one decision or bug you worked through. A small project you understand is much easier to discuss in an interview.
Not a recruiter, but I read other people's repos a lot, and the thing that convinces me is the history, not the code. A project that appears in two giant commits looks generated whatever it contains. A project with many small commits, each saying what changed and why, looks like a person working through a problem, and it is very hard to fake. The second thing: a short notes file of decisions, "chose X over Y because Z, found this bug, fixed it this way". In my own project those notes are the most valuable file in the repo, and in an interview they give you a dozen true stories to tell.