I am a Software Dev girl who loves Uncle Bob, is drawn to the human side of software development and clean coded applications, and enjoys acting as a liaison between the business and tech.
I don't like to rate the skills I'm using, because what it means 5/10? or 2/10 or even 10/10?
I'm listing skills relevant to the position. And I divide it into strong, knowledgeable, and (eventually if relevant) learning. And keep them to 1-3 bullets at the top of my resume (summary).
And I believe it's better to write how you actually used it and for what purpose by mixing them in the accomplishments.
But this is really a matter of preference here and both ways are good.
Putting your skills in a table makes it hard to scan by ATS system (and there's more and more of them in play before your resume actually gets to the recruiter).
Yes, I agree. By level of skill, I didn't specifically mean a value score. I do the same as you, qualifying skill against basic, fair, good, & great. An ATS system won't have trouble scanning words, and that's basically all they are, glorified keyword searchers. It's why I tend to avoid going through agencies now; if they knew the technology they wouldn't be in recruitment, and a computer can never match a person for deriving context!
I am a Software Dev girl who loves Uncle Bob, is drawn to the human side of software development and clean coded applications, and enjoys acting as a liaison between the business and tech.
That's actually a controversial one.
I don't like to rate the skills I'm using, because what it means 5/10? or 2/10 or even 10/10?
I'm listing skills relevant to the position. And I divide it into strong, knowledgeable, and (eventually if relevant) learning. And keep them to 1-3 bullets at the top of my resume (summary).
And I believe it's better to write how you actually used it and for what purpose by mixing them in the accomplishments.
But this is really a matter of preference here and both ways are good.
Putting your skills in a table makes it hard to scan by ATS system (and there's more and more of them in play before your resume actually gets to the recruiter).
Yes, I agree. By level of skill, I didn't specifically mean a value score. I do the same as you, qualifying skill against basic, fair, good, & great. An ATS system won't have trouble scanning words, and that's basically all they are, glorified keyword searchers. It's why I tend to avoid going through agencies now; if they knew the technology they wouldn't be in recruitment, and a computer can never match a person for deriving context!
Yeah, that's true. I don't want to go into ATS and "best on how to apply" discussion here. It's too opinionated and probably everyone is right :p