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Subject: Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...
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On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 12:09:40 -0000 (UTC)
John Forkosh <forkosh@somewhere.com> wrote:

> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
> > John Forkosh wrote:  
> >> I came across
> >>       https://www.fastcompany.com/91169318/
> >> where I was quite surprised, and very happily so,
> >> to see C listed as #3 on its list of
> >>       "Top 10 most common hard skills listed in 2023"
> >> (scroll about halfway down for that list). Moreover,
> >> C++ doesn't even make it anywhere in that top-10 list.
> >> So is that list sensible??? I'd personally be delighted
> >> if so, but I'm suspicious it may just be wishful thinking
> >> on my part, and some kind of goofiness on the list's author.  
> > 
> > As far as I see, the article is about what people put on their CV's
> > - not what they /should/ put, or what potential employers want. 
> > Basically, it is pretty useless - you could use it to argue that
> > people think (rightly or wrongly) that C skills are useful for
> > getting a job, or that people with C skills are regularly out of a
> > job and needing to apply for a new one.
> > 
> > And you can also expect that the people behind the article don't
> > know the difference between C, C++ and C#.  
> 
> Yeah, I guess "C is #3" was just unlikely wishful thinking
> on my part (I'm now hoping my lottery ticket is a winner).
> So, is there any reasonably reliable such "Top 10" list?

By which criterion exactly?

> If so, where? If not, where would C fall on it if it did
> exist? (I'd probably guess C>10, so make that a "Top 100"
> list, as needed.)