| So respond to that job spec with a resume which clearly highlights the 3-4 things you actually did master, with multiple specific project examples and real roles/jobs. You may be pleasantly surprised. Speaking for myself, I will gleefully hop over piles of candidates with a 1/4 page of alphabet soup on their CV trying to talk with the candidate who hammers Python, PHP,
Javascript (etc) across a 5+ years of different projects. Even if I'm hiring for a slightly different technology, because I can be confident they actually know the trade. Multiple skill-sets do add value if they are related and easily combined to deliver a larger solution. Eg. HTML + CSS + Javascript = Front End Web Dev + Python + SQL = Full Stack Web Developer. So I can staff that person in a larger role. The spew of semi-related and adjacent buzzwords doesn't really help me feel comfortable with a candidate. And if I start asking you about them and learn all you did was read about them online (or used it once for a class), the rest of your resume goes into the danger zone real quick. "I mastered X, Y, and Z and used them together to build <pure awesomeness>" will get you further than you think. Even if the job doesn't require X, Y, and Z.... |