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Re:Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class by arnvald on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @01:23AM (#15641405)
> As a hiring manager, I much prefer simpler resumes that are easy to scan. I don't really like the "five stars" self-rating stuff, however. It feels a little strange to distill one's language knowledge down to a number.

I don't like it either, and it looks especially bad when coming from someone with little experience. Occasionally I see someone working as a junior developer and putting 4/5 stars in Ruby, 5/5 stars in CSS, 3/5 in JavaScript.

I feel what these people mean is that they are most proficient in CSS, then in Ruby, then in JavaScript, not that they're experts in CSS, but this is not obvious.

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Re:Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class by pvdebbe on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @02:08AM (#15641542)
Or in a true Socratic way, the less stars they rated for themselves, the more they know about the tech.
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