Recruiters conflate skills with technologies. Or perhaps the author does. I feel like a skill is something that doesn’t go away if a particular business folds.
This might seem nitpicky, until you’ve had a recruiter ask how skilled you were in JIRA and demands you tell them a story about a time when you used advanced JIRA skills to solve a problem. It becomes a checklist of things that really don’t matter that much compared to actual skills.
Employers, this is also why you can’t find good candidates. They might not have a lot of “skills” in the way they’re being defined.
This might seem nitpicky, until you’ve had a recruiter ask how skilled you were in JIRA and demands you tell them a story about a time when you used advanced JIRA skills to solve a problem. It becomes a checklist of things that really don’t matter that much compared to actual skills.
Employers, this is also why you can’t find good candidates. They might not have a lot of “skills” in the way they’re being defined.