I'm doing my CV in Vue with Bulma and everything is all nice and neat. I have a nice and neat 'skills' section that you can see pictured, and it's nice and neat. However, what is not very nice and neat is Firefox (and chrome's) print to PDF thing which ignore the nice little semi meaningless dots that I have, which is so fucking asdfghjkl;

@jespersh FUUUUUCK thats what i needed, thank you

Go Vue and Bulma 😁 A wonderful little combination, as long as you don't use @nuxt/bulma

I work as consult and my company prohibits these kinds of experience bars.
The better you know something the more you know of things you dont know. It is impossible to say 5/6 javascript because people who are 1/6 javascript also say they are 5/6 but dont even know Sets, spread operators etc.

Dont use this way of describing your knowledge as this can be seen as "I have literally no clue what I am doing"

@Codex404 Fair enough. What would you say is a good and concise way if describing one's skills?

@Codex404 Goes by the name of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

@inaba It is both nice and neat lol

@Jilano describing projects you have done with it, which problems you came across and how you solved it (in non technical terms, around 200 words)

Or if you dont like that, you can use years of active experience in a skill.

Never put skill level or stars or whatever as a measurement, just write it there what you can do and the one you’re confident

@Codex404 So you're telling me I'm at a 4/6 JS because my Sets are 0/6 but I make up for that with (at least) 5/6 spread operator? Nice. I give your comment a solid:
( )----( )----( )----( )----(X)

Which means you got the job! Welcome aboard. Since your experience bar is full you also leveled up. Please pick one:
> Mage
Warrior
Front end developer

I have 2 lists, one for stack im confident with and one for stack im familiar with

@jespersh Dude, dude, duuuuuuude thank you so much holy fuck!

@Codex404 Thanks for the advice. I have a couple and one more personal projects there, although they're all Javascript (one is Ionic tho).

I wonder, how would I tell people that I can do C# then?

@inaba work on a c# project, a simple RESTful API for a website backend also works

@inaba how do you know C#? Since you give it a 4/5 that means you are almost master and thus have done multiple projects on it (that is my reading on the bars)

I wonder if employers really see value in that kinda stuff (visually measuring skills) because it's all subjective. My way to go is to list projects and enumerate the technologies and languages used instead.

@specialCardinal I agree

I really hate seeing progress bars on skills.

Welp

Rating system altough bit corny is alright it also shows some sense of self consciousness.

Also:
The lines netween the JS and .NET balls are thinner than the rest.

@Codex404 our company defines these levels as follows:

1: very basic knowledge (able to write a hello world without external resources)

2: at least completed an official training course

3: used it in at least one (client) project

4: used it in multiple (client) projects

5: expert, able to be a tutor in an advanced training course

@undaunted That's sounds reasonable

@undaunted @inuba

Please. Never assume skillset in such a way.

It might sound reasonable, but is practically irrelevant.

Just because someone gave a Talk about C# or knows the full MSDN documentation by heart doesn't mean he understands what he's doing...

I highly like to read detailed project descriptions:

No: worked on an internal project with MySQL / PHP.

Much better: Designed and implemented the backend for an ERP software - utilizing PHP 7 and an internal framework and MySQL 5.5 as an database. In this project, my mayor contributions we're the development of an module for aggregating statistic data and creating reports.

Yes. It IS much longer and might be personal taste, but whenever I read stuff like that I'm really happy. It avoids a lot of questioning and I have much better understanding what the person is capable of.

@IntrusionCM This seems rather reasonable, thanks for the feedback! Thanks to everyone for the feedback actually <3

@IntrusionCM btw, where would you put the skills section? As some of the first or some of the last?

I think latex is more suited to the job of making CVS

I don't think fancy resumes give you any advantage with good companies tho 😃

@Konsole Sure, but when I grow up I'd like to do webdevelopment. So webdevelopmenting my CV as a personal project would be pretty cool

@inaba True, but you will almost always get alignment, page, and many other issues. Plus, they depend on screen size, not paper size.
Latex is designed to fit on papers. You can avoid all the mess by doing in latex.
And i guess if you know html, it's not too difficult to learn latex

@Konsole So far I have not and I'm not preparing to do that. And when making it I actually have it set up to look like it's on an A4 sheet which is togglable

https://github.com/inabahare/CV/...