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Sat, 10 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Technical resumes are challenging to produce, and challenging to accurately interpret. One of the biggest obvious challenges is that candidates are highly motivated to exaggerate, and interpreters of resumes are highly motivated to make a quick decision erring on the side of rejection so as to waste a minimal amount of their precious time. Another big challenge, however, one which I think might be solved, is the difficulty in commnicating exactly what the resume author means by how skilled they are in a particular technology or specialty. Even if one were to assume candidates are 100% truthful and resume readers give 100% effort to read and parse every word of every resume that comes across their desks, what does “Expert at Python” or “5 years experience C++” really mean? Worse yet, someone says (or writes on their resume) “I am 8 / 10 at Ruby” - what does that mean? Eight what? Years? Projects? This person thinks they know 80% of everything there is to know about Ruby? Or are in the 80th percentile for Ruby programmers?

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