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Discussion on: How to write a SOLID dev resume to be 2018 STAR

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Ashley Sheridan

One thing I've found which helps is to have your skills, and level of skill in each, in an easily digestable format, like a small table. The people looking through your CV have a very limited time to read through possibly dozens, so anything that helps the reader get to the point quickly is ideal. Also, be careful about giving yourself 10/10 in anything, it's a pretty good sign that you're suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect!

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Aga Zaboklicka

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).

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Ashley Sheridan

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!

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Aga Zaboklicka

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