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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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Subject: Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2024 14:41:16 +0200
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On 24/08/2024 00:03, 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#.