Re:My dad's resume and skills from 1980
by onei on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @10:56AM
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I see them a lot for interns and new grads. I think there's a bunch of templates that have these 'features' and when people are first starting out they don't know better. No interviewer I've ever met thought 5-star ratings were a good idea.
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I graduated last year and one of our final classes required a resume be submitted using the professors format which was colorful, differing fonts, and used "confidence percentages". I wouldn't dare use it in the real world but I'm wondering how many of those new grad resumes are similar.
And new grads are probably often looking for something anything to stand out if they haven’t done any projects that really stand out and have a middling GPA from a middling school.
Yep 100%, and I probably did the same to be honest, I have a memory of painstakingly deciding which languages or technologies I was "experienced" in and which I was merely "intermediate" in :) I think people tend to be quite forgiving of graduates or those new to the industry, it's hard to know what's expected of you.