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Showing Your Skills
The Resume Toolkit
Showing Your Skills
Showing Your Skills
- Skills make your RESUME memorable: Know what skills make you stand out as a candidate. List those skills and highlight relevant qualifications.
- Give detail on your skills: List your technical and specialised skills including training and related information to these skills.
- Be specific: When you list your skills don’t be general, be specific. Anybody can say they are good at something, but saying that you are experienced or have an extensive knowledge conveys that you have done what you are saying and it is actually a skill, not just RESUME filler.
- Outline interests & ambitions: Briefly describe your interests; include future academic and professional goals that you wish to accomplish.
- Highlight skills gained through experience: Highlight jobs and experience that makes you stand out. Pick things that are relevant to what you are applying for and make them stand out.
- Skills you offer: When you are describing yourself make mention of the things you have brought to the table at previous jobs. List what made you valuable to your current and previous employers.
- Utilise skill headers: Use skill headings rather than job titles to list your experience. Often job titles can sound like they are unrelated to the job in which you are applying.
- Focus on your strengths: Highlight your strengths and minimise your weaknesses.
- Tell the truth: Don’t embellish your assets, experience or qualifications.


