A former coworker once caught someone whose claimed PostScript experience consisted of clicking "Print to File" Was that deceit, or tremendous ignorance? It s

A former coworker once caught someone whose claimed PostScript experience consisted of clicking "Print to File" Was that deceit, or tremendous ignorance? It seems to me that there's a huge problem with resumes and interviewing regarding unknown unknowns. 1-10 ratings, for example, vary wildly depending on how much you don't know that you don't know. When I graduated college, I was a 9/10 in C++. Now I'm about a 6, even though I'm ten times the C++ programmer that I was. :-) But I don't dare tell a recruiter that... I do agree entirely with this statement of yours: at a minimum that I have already developed it to the point of being commercially useful Which is sort of my point. You can have employed a language or technology, professionally, to solve a problem, gaining very meaningful experience, without coming anywhere close to being an expert, or even meeting most people's requirements for 'knowing' something. I'm certainly not saying that people should list anything technology they can conceive, on the most tenuous bases they can rationalize.