Inverted Bell Curve, Resume/CV, Technologies and Time

While having a conversation with Kalyan Chakravarthy, I noticed that technologies/languages known section in resume/CV of a person, over a period of time fits an Inverted Bell Curve.

Fresh college graduates try to bloat their resume/CV with technologies they have heard of, or at-most used for a week or so. Hence their technologies known section is dense.

People with intermediate experience in industry (1 – 3 years), are more cautious and write technologies they have worked upon. The technologies known section for them is usually sparse compared to fresh college graduates.

As, people grow and become more experienced they really know a lot of things and hence their technologies known section becomes more denser.

Visualizing above observations:

Inverted Bell Curve

Inverted Bell Curve

PS: I’m not a recruiter