The other day at work I was asked to describe what I look for when I look at a resume or screen a candidate. I said that one of the most important things to me

The other day at work I was asked to describe what I look for when I look at a resume or screen a candidate. I said that one of the most important things to me was a demonstration of a breadth of knowledge and experience and that was more important to me than a depth of experience. The example I gave was along the lines of IMO it's better to have spent 10 years working with a variety of languages from a variety of paradigms on a variety of types of projects than to have spent 10 years becoming the super deep expert in a single thing. Why? Largely the reasons you cite. As trends change and technology changes, often times the person in the latter camp will struggle much more than the person in the former camp. Sure, the people in the latter camp are much more impressive in their little slice of the world but the person who has seen the proverbial world will often be able to adapt more quickly. I've also found that the person with a breadth of knowledge which spans these sorts of concepts can often use that experience to form outside the box solutions (in a good way) to sticky problems.