> I instantly get elevated to a respect-worthy status for free...Coming upon the Correct Signal by accident I have worked at companies with open positions, and

> I instantly get elevated to a respect-worthy status for free...Coming upon the Correct Signal by accident I have worked at companies with open positions, and I have had to sort through a lot of resumes. I also get an informal Bayesian probability heuristic in seeing the resume and then seeing the person who wrote the resume. People who are on the ball, who are the standard deviation above the rest, know what to put on their resumes which looks impressive. People who are a standard deviation below the rest not only don't know how to put together an impressive resume that stands out, they don't even know how to put together a median, average resume. If I was hiring programmers with little experience, and everyone has the same skillset - Javascript, ES7(8,9...), V8, Javascript framework du jour (React, Angular, Vue, Node.js) - they all look the same. If someone has Clojure on their resume as well, it sends a certain signal out. You still want to talk to that person, and verify that they are a standard deviation above the rest, but it sets you out from the pack. If we don't go by such signals from resumes and the like, I don't know where to go from. The OP is correct though, once you send up a signal you are a standard deviation above, then you have to follow through and you start feeling compelled to be able to produce at a level a standard deviation above.