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Discussion on: Do not put skill bars on your resume!

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Liam Hall

While I completely agree that the figures are somewhat meaningless, I think it does help visualise which areas a candidates feels are their relative strengths and weaknesses are. For example:

PHP: 2/10
JavaScript: 7/10
HTML: 8/10
CSS: 8/10

Their last job title may have been as a “Full-stack web developer” but they’re clearly more front-end focused. Whether it’s visually through info graphics or through words they’ll tell you the same thing.