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Discussion on: Don’t use progress bars in your CV

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Tobi Bello

I decided to check out this article because I thought that whilst explaining why it was probably bad practice to use progress bar to show skill level, you would also make suggestions on how you think it should be done. You have managed to do only the former...

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Zoran Zlokapa

Well that is the last sentence in the article for :) But, if you go through the comments, you'll find some really good advice.

The point of the post was to make people think. Hell, maybe I'm wrong about the whole thing! What I maybe should have said -- and somebody mentioned it in discussion -- we're developers, we're logicians and as we think about what we build, weigh the value of the code we write, we should think about what we put in our resume.

Here's another advice. You can't have a single CV that you send everywhere. You must tailor it specifically for each job application. If you apply for C# position, there's little point in writing you're good at Photoshop. Like everybody here says, it all comes down to your projects and experience. In technical interview, the interviewer will see how you handle technology you rated highest.