"Information technology" pushed computer science off the school curriculum towards the end of the 20th century, creating a skills shortage.
Rather than creating a standard chronologically organized resume, try creating a skill-based resume.
Skills: LinkedIn is taking the skills data from its 90 million profiles and creating a skills graph within professional communities.
In the boarding schools we'd gone to, a fear of punishment had created a skill in lying, and I had learned to withhold small pertinent truths.
Mynah has already been "trained into cautiousness" in the Ceylonese boarding school he attended with Cassius, where "a fear of punishment created a skill in lying, and I learned to withhold small pertinent truths".
You could also create a skill that includes helpful information for the babysitter, which could be triggered by the command, "Alexa, open My Sitter," Amazon suggests.
The idea is that you could create a skill for your friends or family to use, to save them the work of having to edit Amazon's provided templates with your own content.
Rather than just mentioning the main areas of your study in your education section, you can create a skills section from coursework modules and place it just under your profile, as shown in this graduate CV.
The idea is to create a "skills passport" so that someone from Ohio with skills in drill-fitting, for example, would find it easier to relocate to Illinois.Despite the uneven record of publicly-funded training schemes, these initiatives are worth trying.
Generations of rubbish IT teaching in the UK has created a skills vortex: developers – the computer engineers who actually make the apps – are in short supply and huge demand, and can comfortably charge up to a £1,000 a day for their work.
