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I love those skill bars. Because they say something meaningful, potentially, namely what you're relatively better or worse at, more or less experienced at. Wit
by mkramlich 14y ago
I love those skill bars.
Because they say something meaningful, potentially, namely what you're relatively better or worse at, more or less experienced at. Without committing the sin of telling the world what your objectively absolute rating is in some supposedly global but in actuality undefined frame of reference.
Example: "I'm a 6/10 on Apples and an 8 on Oranges, and Bob over there says he's 9 on Apples and 1 on bananas. Turns out in actuality I'm way better at Apples than Bob, but Bob kicks most people's asses at bananas!"
- miles_matthias 14y agoI totally agree. That was the main original thing I saw and I'll be looking through the code to see how those are generated or if they're just static.
- FuzzyDunlop 14y agoThey're static: https://github.com/philipithomas/cv-philipithomas/blob/master/index.php#L240 https://github.com/philipithomas/cv-philipithomas/blob/maste...
- FuzzyDunlop 14y agoI disagree, because they're completely arbitrary and a full bar can suggest that you either know everything, or you can't improve any more. Trying to represent knowledge or skill on a finite scale is a bad idea, I think. If I got this CV in a pile I'd want to see examples to demonstrate that skill in place of this section, not a set of percentages pulled from thin air.
- S4M 14y agoAgree. The OP should mention what he has done or what he knows with the technologies and languages he is assessing himself. For example: Matlab: built a model to do X in matlab, used very frequenty to do my reports for two years.