Oftentimes, employers may require specific skills for programs like Excel or PowerPoint, especially for jobs that require sorting, analyzing and displaying data or creating and delivering presentations. I don't list that because if I was picked based on that implied skill or qualification, I wouldn't be as effective and it would look quite negative for me.Proficiency in Microsoft Office can be a desirable skill set for employees to have. In contrast I had to get a CCNA for an old job (programmer supporting network engineers), I've let it expire and couldn't manage much more than my home network at this stage.
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However, its unfair not to be able to list some or all of those, especially since refreshing or picking up a new programming language is generally an exercise in learning some new syntax.įor example, I learned Java at university, I hate it, where possible I never code in it (haven't since I left university), but I list it because I could pick it up quite easily. You might have learned 10 programming languages, but that's more than someone could hold in their head and be proficient in at any point in time. The rationale for this, I feel, is its not unreasonable to list all of the things you've attempted and have had to let slide for whatever reason. My approach is that if an employer picked you based on a skill and you could do it reasonably well, or could pick it up quickly, then list it.
And it solves the problem of people who list technologies on their resume because they happened to make a change to a script written in that language once at a job 5 years ago That allows you to put the experience in context both in terms of what you accomplished and in terms of when and allows interviewers to naturally infer that you're probably a bit rusty if they don't see any more recent mentions. It makes perfect sense, on the other hand, to list the technologies that you worked with in the descriptions of your prior jobs. If I'm reading a resume and I see a skills section that lists dozens of different technologies, I'll generally just skip the section entirely on the assumption that it's just a keyword dump for the search engines. If you are trying to emphasize technologies to a human reader, you want to be very selective and only list those you're really comfortable with. And it increases the odds that someone decides to quiz you about things you've long forgotten in an interview. It's much more likely that you'd end up popping up for jobs that you're not likely to be a good fit for (someone looking for a C developer is probably not going to have too much difficulty finding someone with much more recent experience). If you are trying to get HR systems to match the skill list on your resume, listing languages you're not proficient in is unlikely to be helpful. Languages you haven't touched in a decade are unlikely to satisfy either criteria. The other is to list specific skills and technologies that you want to emphasize to a human reading your resume. This is particularly true where there are tons of acronyms that have changed over time and you can't be sure what someone is likely to search on (i.e. One is to provide a bunch of keywords for HR systems to be able to find your resume if the term in question doesn't appear elsewhere in your resume. There are two basic reasons why you might have a separate "Skills" section of your resume.
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