Post by Doghouse Recruitment

Tech bingo: when a recruiter matches a candidate to a job by counting keywords.   React? Check. Kubernetes? Check. AWS, "5+ years", "team player"? Check, check, check. Four out of six squares line up, and out the CV goes.   The problem is that a keyword tells you a word was on a page. It doesn't tell you what someone actually did with it. Two people can tick the exact same squares and be nothing alike. One built it in production. The other touched it once, in a side project, in 2019.   We're not coding ourselves. But we speak to engineers all day, so we know the difference between a buzzword and the work behind it. We'd rather understand what someone really built, and the impact they made, than count matching squares.   So when a CV reaches you from us, it isn't a winning bingo card. It's a one-on-one match.   What's the most overused square on the board?