Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
So you’ve got all these skills and abilities and geektastic inclinations. You want to use them on the job search, and so you put them on a resume or talk about them. Let me suggest you take it a bit further.
I suggest you make your job search a way of leveraging your progeek skills and interests. In fact I suggest you try basing some of it on what you do anyway.
And our question today . . .
Are there some skills that are considered too common (like Word) or too bland (like people skills) to be worth mentioning?
In an age of overloaded resumes it’s actually an interesting question to ask – what do we leave out?
The answer, of course, is that there’s no simple yes/no rule. No, that’s not a cop-out, because the question itself is actually the wrong question.
You know I'm frustrated with the craziness of the job search that affects so many people. I could probably rant about that for many posts – and I probably will, knowing me.
One thing I note in the insanity of the job search is that among the inevitable laundry lists of skills, many job postings ask for sets of skills that A) most people probably have, B) they could learn if said person is reasonably intelligent, or C) that they have similar skills to anyway so it doesn't matter very much.