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How Much More Impressive In General Is Having A Personal Website Vs. Just Providing Your Info Directly?

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In the context of hiring within the industry in general, does having a custom personal website to show off your info/professional accomplishments/personal project portfolio really help you stand out that much more than just providing that info via document uploads and direct links to your LinkedIn and GitHub?

I can imagine it would obviously help you stand out a lot if you're going for more frontend-focused or webdev type roles. Do people hiring for other types of dev roles actually care that much about seeing something like that from a candidate?

I've heard mixed things ranging from that it does indeed help you stand out no matter the role to it doesn't really matter either way to it even being viewed as something of a nuisance compared to just directly providing your resume and links to your LinkedIn and GitHub because personal websites typically don't work as well with ATS tools and a lot of recruiters and HMs in the initial stages just don't have the time to manually look through your website.

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