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It’s my main quibble with various resume tools; ending up with something I won’t be able to reuse when I have to update it, and thus will need to do it all over again by hand, from scratch.
No a criticism; just candid hope and curiosity.
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Yes, when hiring I do discriminate against candidates with bad skills. Reading and writing, communication in written form is a critical skill for a software developer, more important than even coding skills (btw, I'm yet to see a person who can code and can't write, or even hear about such person). It is irrelevant, what is the reason for the lack of skill - innate disability or low intelligence - if you can't clearl…
As I mentioned in the comment below, this is the first excuse for such discrimination, as most of the times they do properly communicate and can effectively communicate the idea, but it’s the covert way of discriminating them. One of the examples I witnessed, someone was from Singapore -and in Singapore just like a lot of other countries, English IS native, i.e. taught early in life- but they do have a thick accents,…
Interestingly, the mistakes non-native English speakers make are different from the ones native speakers make. Thus, excluding non-natives makes it more likely for certain kinds of mistakes to slip by. "There" vs "Their", etc.
A general question: What do you all think about this Skill representation as points out of 5 (or 7 or 10 for that matter)? These arbitrary scales always hit me as kind of...useless? There is no frame of reference what a specific amount of points mean. Of course, with this kind of skill-self-description there will always be difficulties, i.e., one does not always know what one does not know etc. But it seems to me tha…
If somebody has experience in different areas (not just "Java and c++" but e. G. Project management and technical development), it may be useful to understand their relative ranking or focus or priority or direction.
All data is data.
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The optimal approach is to rate yourself high in everything because you can. It is clearly in your best interest to do so.
Not for everyone. Resume-padding gets you into teams with resume-padding members.
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The skill bars or skill meters are completely useless because one person's 10/10 is another person's 2/10. Moreover, the more junior the engineer, the higher they score themselves in their discipline. I am an older engineer and I would rank myself 6-7/10 in most aspects of my work, even if I have architected and built some trend-setting systems in my corner of tech. I have never seen a junior score themselves so low…
It also sickens me when I see a posting stating something like, "Must be an expert in these 6 disparate technologies". Like, I already hesitate to call myself an expert in my bread-and-butter, day-to-day tech stack. Now I have to over-analyze, "Do they mean expert? Is that flexible? Or am I really just that unqualified? Did the hiring manager just spend four seconds putting this together and will take whatever?"
Also checkout https://jsonresume.org/ not my project but also amazing work
I still maintain the project, currently rebuilding a lot of the infrastructure. Ive been having fun integrating AI stuff into it. Going to polish them more soon. https://registry.jsonresume.org/thomasdavis/jobs https://registry.jsonresume.org/thomasdavis/interview https://registry.jsonresume.org/thomasdavis.letter https://registry.jsonresume.org/thomasdavis.suggest <- Resume Suggestions (it asks ChatGPT to give preci…
A general question: What do you all think about this Skill representation as points out of 5 (or 7 or 10 for that matter)? These arbitrary scales always hit me as kind of...useless? There is no frame of reference what a specific amount of points mean. Of course, with this kind of skill-self-description there will always be difficulties, i.e., one does not always know what one does not know etc. But it seems to me tha…
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It suited me quite fine for many years. If an intellectual worker can't take a text editor and produce a coherent text about his skills and job experience, it is unlikely he'll be good at any job that requires thinking.
> If an intellectual worker can't take a text editor and produce a coherent text about his skills and job experience, it is unlikely he'll be good at any job that requires thinking. I'd argue that if a resume builder threatens your ability to filter out good and bad resumes, you're probably not a good hiring manager and also are unlikely to be fit for a job that requires thinking.
A quick dumb filter that works isn’t dumb, right?