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The going expectation for professional résumés is about honesty and modesty. What you say on that piece of paper should reflect what you would be able to come i
by Rumudiez 10y ago
The going expectation for professional résumés is about honesty and modesty. What you say on that piece of paper should reflect what you would be able to come in the next day and be productive doing.
I interviewed over 15 applicants for just front end development last week and not a single one of all the 6-page résumés from candidates who all apparently have their masters was honest: only 5 even knew what JSON is.
- flukus 10y agoAre these graduates? Are they real developers or people that know html, css and photoshop thinking their front end devs? Have they spent their lives in big companies that are still in xml land? That's all the excuses I can think of. Some of them may be honest, just ignorant.
- Rumudiez 10y agoThey generally don't have a clue, or sometimes have had job titles like "Software Engineer" but all they did was basic GUI testing, which is also the case at my company.
- underdown 10y agoIs it possible you aren't offering a wage that attracts talent? You seem to be implying that Indian labor is smarter/more qualified than US labor. In my experience, (hiring in Phoenix) that is simply not the case if you're willing to pay the prevailing wage.
- CM30 10y agoYeah, this was my first though too. Even outside of the US you see companies wondering why they can't find good local talent, except they're offering wages too low for any qualified applicant to live on. Pay peanuts, you get monkeys (or the extremely desperate/exploited).
- Rumudiez 10y agoI believe that might be part of the problem, but when I joined under this same role I was being fairly compensated, so it might be mixed.
- weirdstuff 10y agoI hear these stories all the time, and yet the value of these degrees seem to hold steady, while experience is often discounted.
- walshemj 10y agoI would have thought JSON was more a back end