Curriculum vitae: Proper qualifiers for skills

Question

I am updating my curriculum vitae, and there is a section where I list my experience with several technologies and programming languages. I would like to group my experience in two categories; namely, technologies with which I have long experience, and those with which I have relatively basic (yet, not elementary) experience.

Currently I am listing my experience as follows:

1. 20+ years of experience with X and Y
2. Some experience with W and Z

However, some experience sounds ambiguous and I think gives the impression that my experience with W and Z is quite elementary. I do have some experience with W and Z but not enough to call it "broad". What would be a good or proper qualifier for such skills?

Answer 1

It depends on the nature of your experience:

• You could measure it in years, just like the rest of your experience.
• I've seen people use small bar graphs for each skill to indicate how well they know each ability.
• You could reword your other items and say you have substantial experience with them and just experience with the lesser-known items.
• You could say you have working knowledge of the lesser-known items.

Answer 2

You could say:

Moderate experience with W and Z

or switch it up a little:

Sound working knowledge of W and Z

which implies that you know enough to be useful in most practical cases.

Answer 3

I would recommend the following:

Experience with X and Y.

Exposure to W and Z.

However, you may want to up the scale a bit, in which case I would suggest

Expertise in X and Y.

Experience with W and Z.

This indicates that while you do have experience/working knowledge (more so than "exposure" would imply), you have not mastered the technologies/languages. It's made clearer by the use of "Expertise" with X and Y, since, if you were as skilled with W and Z as with X and Y, you would have called that "expertise" as well.