The headline misled me. The gist of the article is good. Two of the article's main points are solid: (1) On your resume and in interviews, talk about results

The headline misled me. The gist of the article is good. Two of the article's main points are solid: (1) On your resume and in interviews, talk about results more than technology. Instead of "I know Python" or even "I've used Python for five years," it's stronger to say, "I rewrote the company billing system, used by 100 people, saving $100,000 in licenses." Have bullet points like that on your resume. This advice first came to me from a book on making resumes, given to me by a friend who works as a recruiter. It's okay to mix in technical, of course. A good example is actually this Hacker News comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902739 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902739 (2) Don't neglect the human factor. Basically it boils down to trust. Put yourself in the employer's shoes for just a second. Hiring a new employee is a significant act of trust. It should come as no surprise. Have you ever said to yourself at work, "Wow, I really can see everything. I could really do a lot of damage, if I weren't such an upstanding citizen." Exactly. The problem I guess is that most people don't have the time and money to check you out as well as they should. So they resort to all manner of shortcuts, like: are you well-dressed, are you clean, are you polite --- or do you come across as someone building a bomb in their basement, or someone who might build a bomb at my company if I don't buy you the right monitors? Other shortcuts are prevalent, like: are you a friend or relative of someone I already trust? Yes, this is all embarrassingly low-resolution instrumentation for indentifying a good employee. However, can you think of anything better? Maybe you can. If so, there's loads of money to be made. Just try not to make it scary, like trying to algorithmically score a person based on key words in their opus of tweets.