On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:07:51 -0700, goemon@anime.net said:
This is what baffles me. People keep putting stuff on their resume that they simply don't know anything about. TCP/IP expert, yet they don't know SYN/SYNACK/ACK or subnetting. HTTP expert but they don't know what a 200 response is.
The Friday afternoon cynic in me says it's because it's a move with positive paybacks. There's 3 basic possibilities: 1) You send the puffed resume to a company with clue, it gets recognized as puffed, and you don't get the job. Zero loss, you weren't going to get that job anyhow. 2) You send a boring unpuffed resume to a company sans clue. They recognize it as boring because there's only 3 buzzwords on 2 pages, and you don't get the job. Loss. 3) You send a puffed resume, and the guy doing the hiring doesn't know what the 3-packet mating call of the Internet is *either*. Win.