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I wish it was considered acceptable to provide bar charts of relative self assessed competency with a set of tools. With error bars of courses.
by 1propionyl 10y ago
I wish it was considered acceptable to provide bar charts of relative self assessed competency with a set of tools.
With error bars of courses.
- crispyambulance 10y agoIt is not acceptable because it is utterly meaningless. There's no way that a scale can represent something that is intrinsically subjective.
- atoko 10y agoIt might be subjective but it's a good indicator to how much guidance the person needs initially. I think it would be useful.
- SubiculumCode 10y agoSubjective ratings often predict reality quite well.
- cema 10y agoAnd yet, people are often asked to estimate their level of specific knowledge "on the scale of 1 to 10".
- gr3yh47 10y agoon my resume I list specific skills (i.e. AWS, Node.js) under several categories (i.e. ops, programming) and for each skill listed i format them bold, italic, plaintext with a legend showing that those map to adept, proficient, and working knowledge
- abraae 10y agoSuccessFactors HR product used to do this (may still do). You had to drag and drop your skills within a kind of bell curve. It forced you to prioritise only one or two as your super skills, then a larger number that were your next top skills, and finally a whole bunch of stuff at the lower level. It worked well, though it was in no way the final word on this kind of very challenging problem.