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Re:Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser by ghosty141 on Sunday June 25, 2023 @04:05PM (#36472050)
They are arbitrary in a way but remember that the people scanning over the resumes are not technical people, for them its important that a skill is there and thats about it. Finding a job is more about social skills than technical ones.
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Re:Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser by linusha on Sunday June 25, 2023 @04:24PM (#36472226)
But why spent valuable estate on the CV by providing a made-up scale, when just putting the skill would be enough to satisfy your argument?
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Re:Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser by evilduck on Sunday June 25, 2023 @04:41PM (#36472377)
Because resumes aren't evaluated on maximum information density (and sometimes sparser resumes even do better).

I don't care for skill self-ratings as a concept either but these are placed in what would need to be negative space anyways. If you're committing to a skills list, removing the rating dots and stuffing more skills in their place probably wouldn't have a positive effect.

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