tarius

Just a thought: What if I were to buy a TV with a port other than HDMI and use a converter from Roku device to that port? For example, hdmi to display port or whatever.

I meant like Workday, Greenhouse, ADP, etc.

Wouldn't the application software filter out the keywords from the description?

Appreciate it

The same question would apply to skills mentioned in the experience section–unless the experience section is nothing but a description of use of those skills.

That's why I said if the skill is listed as a description in the experience (not literally the keyword), the "time range" would give you somewhat of an idea about the person. Key here is not listing just the skill, but what they actually did with that skill.

It seems as if you and I may be valuing the experience section in different ways.

If you are a recruiter/manager that gives a call to everyone, then I appreciate what you do. But, wouldn't your job be much easier if you are able to understand the candidate's skill from the description without even talking to them? Filtering out inexperienced people would be much easier instead of just going by the skills section.

But the direct answer to your question is in an interview. If you assert both valuable skills and experience, then you will get pressed to demonstrate or explain those face-to-face.

In the current market for IT folks, its not easy to get an interview. So you wanna give as much information in the resume to get that first call. This is from my personal experience in the last 6-10 months

I dont use a Skills section at all in my resume. How do you determine the quality of skills based on just keywords in the skills section?

In description if you show that you worked in certain technology for "this" long, you would get somewhat an idea of how skilled that person is in that tech

Lets say I put Office in skills section, you wouldnt know how skilled I am in office. I might have only worked with it for a month. And I am talking about resume without any fancy graphics with bar graph to show the skill level

I understand. But, consultants could work on so many various things based on the project. Its better to provide context of the role and what industry that project was instead of only showing one block of text.

As an example, If I worked at a company for 2 years, I could have used GitHub for 3 months in one project and used GitLab for 6 months in another project. If I write both of them in the same block, you would think I have 2 years of experience in both which is not accurate.

Obviously there are ways you can write that in the description. I was just wondering if there are options to have nested experience.

This is very close. The only thing missing is job title for the parent along with the company name for each nested experience

Somewhat unrelated question:

How do you list experience based on projects under single employer with timeline?

Right now I have it like this:

• Consultant

  Employer - 2020 - 2023

  • Developer - June 2023 to August 2023
    • Description 1
    • Description 2
  • Analyst - March 2021 - May 2022
    • Description 1

I havent found any resume template that can handle this (nested experience) automatically

I've been using comprehensive.io for salaries. Its not as good as Glassdoor for data but, its free and gets the job done for me. Also, layoffs.fyi when I feel like getting depressed

Exactly. I was unemployed for several months and once the desperation kicked in, I would have done anything to get a job.

I had 5 rounds of interviews with a company last year. After the last round, HR said they got good feedback from everyone but they are cancelling that role because they dont have the funds. Thats 5 hours of time wasted on their side but, I lost so much more time because I had to do research for interviews. You can imagine how I felt after hearing that.