What Hiring Managers Really Want In 2025
DICE, Wednesday, October 29th, 2025
When I finished college ages ago, I was getting ready to send out my resume. I felt my resume would easily end up on the top. I knew something like eight programming languages. I would send it to six companies, and then decide between five job offers. That seemed about right.
And so wrong I was. Only after hearing another computer science graduate brag about the number of languages he knew did I realize that everybody who went through a computer science program knew those same eight languages.
And only after about 50 or so resumes being sent out and a dozen or so interviews did I finally land my first job, a year or so after graduation, and after spending that year working in a room where I pulled printouts and stuffed them in bins for minimum wage.