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BillWoodruff25-Apr-15 15:48
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I can't imagine what goes on in recruiters/screeners' heads, but if I were interviewing you and saw the term "familiar with," that would "register" as an ambiguous term, and would make me immediately want to question you in in detail on what your "familiarity" was, exactly.

imho, "have specific experience with" is less ambiguous.

imho, it is always wiser to claim you know less, and demonstrate you know more, than to claim you know more and then be able to demonstrate less.

cheers, Bill
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"

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