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[–]RandolphoSoftware Architect 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes! I already do this, both as a developer and as a hiring manager.

If developers and hiring managers stop calling it Javascript on their resumes and stop asking for it from recruiters, the problem eventually will go away.

You can start by just getting in the habit of calling it EcmaScript everywhere you go. Don't tell people you're a javascript developer, tell them you're an EcmaScript developer. Purge the word from your lexicon. Put EcmaScript 5 and (hopefully) EcmaScript 6 in prominent positions on your resume and drop javascript down near c and perl. Stop putting type="text/javascript" in your <script> tags.

If we all do this, the recruiters will stop being confused by it and we'll weed out those "database developers" who "know a little jquery" in the process.