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That's because you're a recruiter. As someone who interviews, I absolutely care what you're reading, and I often ask what the last technical book you read was.
by ebiester 11y ago
That's because you're a recruiter. As someone who interviews, I absolutely care what you're reading, and I often ask what the last technical book you read was.
And you should care about my favorite technologies, else you're going to call me for a job in Flex or Struts because I worked on it a few years ago and waste your time.
Now, it's worth me pointing out my PL/SQL experience because some places are working on old and new technology, and my fluency with diverse technologies is a competitive advantage, but favorites should matter to you.
- thenipper 11y agoThat's a totally valid counter point about the reading. Also as I said the recruiting work I do(which is about 30% of my job) isn't hiring programmers. In the field I'm in I doubt the last book you read question comes up too much. To be honest I'd have favorites go either in an executive summary in the top or a cover letter, not a resume. I'd mention like I'm really excited to work at XYZ because of your use of a React.JS combined with your Fortran to JS transpiler, in fact I worked on this project that uses that Fortran->JS program when I was at ABC company. You bring up an interesting point how the needs of a recruiter(internal or external) are different from a hiring manager in terms of detail/information.
- ebiester 11y agoI've never had a cover letter sent to me behind the scenes, but other companies may be different. Tech resumes have moved away from executive summaries.