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It also discourages people from embellishing their resume with stuff that they don't really know. I think a lot of especially younger people don't realize that
by btmorex 16y ago
It also discourages people from embellishing their resume with stuff that they don't really know.
I think a lot of especially younger people don't realize that if you list a programming language on your resume it's sort of expected that you'll be able to write something in that language (maybe with minor syntax errors). I'm appalled at the number of people who list C/C++ and yet can't write a simple string manipulation function.
Actually, this phenomenon is kind of useful because it the quickest way to filter out more than half of the candidates applying.
- derefr 16y agoFrom my experience, a lot of employers are Nash level-two thinkers here: they know that everyone embellishes their resume, so they assume that you've put union of the sets "things I know how to do" and "things you require" on it, rather than their intersection. Thus, they require "10 years experience in Clojure" etc. because they think that anyone who doesn't say they have it really doesn't know anything about it, even though that usually disqualifies the Nash level-three candidates who honestly evaluate themselves.