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Discussion on: What are your tips for an effective developer resumé?

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Code Monk

dang! I use skill level bars. I thought it was a nice visual way to order competencies from "best at" to "worst at". Of course it's not an exact science. It's a self assesment. It's like saying "I'm really good at Go, pretty good at HTML, not bad at Ruby, and I really like Rust but I'm new to it and don't fully understand it"

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GrahamTheDev

Hehe, don’t worry I have made most of these mistakes myself. The problem with them is actually worse than I made out. If you put a bar at full then your are signalling you know everything and that sets unrealistic expectations and leaves you wide open! If you put 75% then it looks like you have a lot to learn still as 1 in 4 questions you can’t answer. Neither of the scenarios work well so better to just leave them off. 👍