Just received a job résumé for a software engineer position. The very first skill listed: MS Word. - devRant

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Massive-Dev

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5y

I bet (s)he Excels at it!
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abdulmatinsanni

287

5y

Red flag. 🎟
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possum

1597

5y

It could be that the documents created by former devs were so bad that they now require skills in Word.
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C0D4

66944

5y

could be an older resume of mine.

Got to get past those resume robots somehow, or maybe this poor guy/gal has had to do mail merge as part of a previous role or used word for documentation.
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duckWit

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5y

@Massive-Dev Excel was the second skill listed. No joke. Several items down were finally things actually related to the position.
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civel

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5y

I don’t know about you guys but, IMO, the first skill listed on pretty much all of our resumes should be: Google

:P
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torpkev

482

5y

I had multiple people with that same thing apply for a dev position.. they didn't have any actual dev experience, but they could mail merge like crazy. Not sure how they got past HR

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