“You’ll care less what others think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
That's generally why people give so much of a shit about resume values.
Nothing about chasing resume skills precludes you from being a decent human being. But there's also nothing shocking about people focusing on employable values, early in their lives.
You'd be surprised. People think so because we rationalize all kinds of bad behavior (e.g. not speaking up when a colleague was wrongly fired or abused, or working for a company that runs sweatshops, or does all kind of damage). As long as they don't do it directly (and just "follow orders" or "doing their job") they think it's OK.
But it's still a daily choice, and the other option to being principled is often not putting food on the table.