The difference here is people who have worked with a technology and people who are listing technologies that they have 2 weeks with in the same group as the tec

The difference here is people who have worked with a technology and people who are listing technologies that they have 2 weeks with in the same group as the technology they have 5 years in. I'd hope that you would somehow differentiate your expertise in C++ from your rusty Tcl/Tk. If you list them side by side with no differentiation, it almost serves as you misrepresenting yourself (not intentionally perhaps). If you are providing perspective as you say, you are not part of the problem here. It is a bit naive to advise candidates to be selective when they know that a machine might be ranking their words. If candidates that have 9 page resumes and 2 pages of buzzwords stop getting phone calls and find out why, that will solve the problem eventually.