I will wade in on this
I tell all the people I send out for interviews with hiring manager:
It is a TALENT game. Skills and experience don't amount for a hill of bean. TALENT is a discription of what business benefit you have brought to your prior employers.
TALENT is the application of skills and experience to create a business problem. That problem is defined by a threat to the profits of the company. Your skills/experience was applied to that problem and the results were positive for the company.
If someone comes to me and only talks about knowing this tech or skill or this method, I say that that is nice, WHAT have you accomplished with it???? Tell me about your saving money, reducing time or staff, winning back accounts because of your customer service skills.
That is what sells a hiring manager these days
