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.NET Developer Resume and Interview Guide: Skills to Show

A strong .NET developer resume shows the languages and frameworks you have shipped with, the data and cloud services you work with, and what your work achieved.

Skills hiring teams look for

List the ones you have genuinely used, and put the most relevant to the job first.

C#
.NET / .NET Core
ASP.NET Web API and MVC
Entity Framework and LINQ
SQL Server and T-SQL
Azure services (App Service, Functions, Service Bus)
CI/CD (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions)
Unit testing (xUnit, NUnit, Moq)
Docker and microservices
REST API design and authentication (OAuth2, JWT)

How to write your experience

State your .NET version range if it is relevant, for example .NET Framework 4.8 and modern .NET.
Describe APIs by what they did: traffic served, systems integrated, latency improved.
Show data work too: stored procedures, indexing, query tuning, migrations.
Mention testing and delivery: automated tests, pipelines, release frequency.

Interview topics to prepare

Dependency injection and the service lifetimes in .NET
async/await and common pitfalls
Entity Framework tracking, lazy loading and performance
Designing a REST API and handling versioning and errors
SQL indexing and reading an execution plan
Authentication with JWT and OAuth2

Tailor it to each posting

Read the job description, find the required skills, and make sure each one you genuinely have is easy to find in your summary, skills and recent bullets. Do not add skills you have not used. See the guide: how to tailor your resume to a job description, and the ATS resume checklist.

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.NET Developer Resume and Interview Guide: Skills to Show

Skills hiring teams look for

How to write your experience

Interview topics to prepare

Tailor it to each posting

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