Recently for my company I had to interview developers who were very different from each other. Young, less young, passionate, less passionate, effervescent and more composed.
Leaving aside that "lively" eye of someone who is "hungry to know" and who was the one asking the questions, and not vice versa, from each of these interviews I learned something. I learned that there are peculiarities or small things that improve your position as a possible candidate, whether you are a Junior figure or not.
I have seen many of them, most of them coming from a well-known "Academy" present in the territory. Indisputably there is a need for developers and a path - very well known online - of this type can be a "blessing" for Web Agencies (or similar) that have to look for Junior figures. The thing that I can perhaps suggest is to have them try their hand at a wider variety of projects and not always on the same ones. Precisely because I spoke with so many people who often had the same "pre-professional background" I had to add some KPI (pardon the term NERD) to my selection.
If they have a website
When you find someone who has a website, start putting a check mark on that CV. What was commonplace until a few years ago is no longer commonplace today. If it goes well, they have an "empty" box under "Portfolio/Personal Website", if it goes badly, they have Instagram under that heading.
Their Github repository
A dear friend and former collaborator once told me: "If you don't have a Github repo, you have something to hide...or you're not for me". Now, extremism aside, I believe that nowadays, it is not strictly necessary to have a Github account, but if you do, you gain points. There are many reasons, but one above all, indisputably, is: you have a minimal idea of what GIT is.
Then, paraphrasing, "a Github profile does not make a programmer" but it certainly helps. In this regard, let's go directly to the next point.
If he mentions known development software or extensions
If we meet and you tell me about Prettier, Tabnine or LiveServer it means that we are destined to be together. It is not true but it gives a good idea.
Again, if you want to be a developer, in my opinion you have to be a NERD and being a NERD means that you are also passionate about the "nuances" of the software you use.
This is not why Zeno Rocha made so much money from Dracula.
I want you to tell me why you like Linux rather than OSX (or vice versa). I would even accept you telling me that Windows Vista had some interesting features, look. But, for God's sake, make me understand that you have already put your hands in the cookie jar and that you really liked it.