Resume Skills Employers Want—150 Examples for All Jobs

Stephen Greet
Stephen Greet March 27, 2023
Resume Skills Employers Want—150 Examples for All Jobs

When it comes to your skills section, the more specific you can get, the better. That’s why we broke down the most in-demand skills by career type.

Still, it can be helpful to get you started looking at which skills employers generally might be looking for right now.

We analyzed countless job descriptions across different careers and identified 150 of the most sought-after and generally-applicable skills you can include on your resume, like this one here, in 2023.

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Best General Resume Skills in 2023

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While we’re going to give you plenty of job-specific resume skills, there are some that work across just about any field. These add value to any piece and can prove especially helpful for candidates who either lack work history or are creating an entry-level resume.

  • Data Analysis
  • Problem Solving
  • Collaborative
  • Detail-oriented
  • Adaptable
  • Creative
  • Written Communication
  • Public Speaking
  • Critical Thinking
  • Bilingual
  • Multi-tasking
  • Organized
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Time Management
  • Accountable
  • Leadership
  • Results-oriented
  • Project Management
  • Budgeting
  • Compassionate/ Empathetic

Which Resume Skills Get You Hired or at Least an Interview?

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We’re glad you asked! Because the resume skills section is the second most important in determining whether you’ll get an initial interview or not (the first is work experience), we want to provide you with the right skills to get that callback.

Before a human even looks at your resume, an automated system called an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) will decide whether or not your document even makes it to a pair of real eyes for review.

What is the ATS looking for on your resume? The right skills! Employers determine the skills they’re seeking in a prospective hire for a given role, and the ATS scans your resume to find those very skills in acceptable amounts.

Knowing what to put on a resume includes discovering the right skills to get past the big, bad ATS filters. Pass step one, so you can make it to the next—convincing the hiring manager you deserve an initial interview.

To help you achieve that end, we analyzed numerous job descriptions and break down the most in-demand skills you should include when writing a resume based on your career stage or job title.

Hard Skills vs. Soft Skills

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Before we jump into which skills to include on your resume, we need to get some definitions out of the way:

  • Soft skills are those that are hard to measure or prove expertise in. “Communication skills” are the textbook example of a soft skill.
  • Hard skills are the tools and software you use to get your job done. Excel and QuickBooks are examples of hard skills.

A quick way to distinguish between hard and soft skills is to ask, “Is there a specific tool or software associated with the skill?” If the answer is “yes,” you’re likely dealing with a hard skill. If not, you’re talking about a soft skill.

As discussed above, companies use an ATS to filter out job applicants based on whether or not they include the right skills on their resumes.

The ATS filters are looking primarily for hard skills. That is, they want to make sure the people who are applying for a job know the right tools and software needed to succeed.

This doesn’t mean you should exclude soft skills from your resume. Why? After the ATS approves your resume, it’s passed on to the human hiring manager. They’ll likely want to see soft skills depending on the kind of role you’re applying to.

Use this guide to determine whether or not you should include soft skills on your resume.

Should I include soft skills on my resume?

If the answer to any of these questions is “yes,” you should likely include soft skills on your resume (we’ll detail how in the next section). 

  • Is the role I’m applying to largely non-technical?
    • Technical roles are those primarily dominated by hard skills (software engineer, data scientist, accounting, etc.)
  • Can I demonstrate how I used my soft skills in past roles?
    • Just listing soft skills on your resume isn’t as impactful as showing how you used them to do your job.
  • Are there obvious soft skills I need to do my job well?
    • For example, if you’re in sales or customer service, you need the ability to communicate with customers!

How to Include Skills on Your Resume

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Now that you know whether you should include hard skills, soft skills, or a combination of both on your resume, the next question is, how do you actually include them?

  • When it comes to your resume skills, the presentation can matter just as much as the content! 
  • Before we get to structure, a word of warning:

Don’t list too many skills in your skills section! While it’s OK to dump all sorts of skills into your resume outline, it’s a big red flag to the hiring manager if they see a resume where an applicant lists 15+ skills. First, it might mean the applicant is exaggerating their skillset (a big no-no). Second, a hiring manager would rather hire someone who’s a master of a few skills than a beginner in many.

Different resume formats may display your skills in various ways, but regardless of the design you choose, there are three places you should mention your most important skills: 

  • In your resume objective or resume summary
  • In a dedicated “skills” section on your resume
  • In your work experience or projects (show how you used your skills to do your job in the past)

Your resume objective should only be two to three sentences, so you should include your top one to two skills most relevant to the job you’re applying for here. In addition to our demo below, there are plenty of great examples of how to mention your top skills in your resume objective or resume summary.

Organized, considerate administrative assistant with a history of keeping cool under high-pressure situations where multiple priorities are being managed. ABC Corporation is doing invaluable work for under-served housing populations, and I would be an asset in enabling Ms. Garcia to focus on that mission by alleviating her organizational burden.

How to Organize Skills on Your Resume

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When it comes to your skills section, there are a few different ways you can structure it:

  • By skill category (technology type, soft skills vs. hard skills)
  • Experience level

We put together over 150+ resume examples so you can see how your skills section can be structured in practice. Browsing through our resume templates on Google Docs or our Word resume templates (free) will give you a few more ideas, too.

These kinds of breakdowns aren’t essential. You can just list all of your skills in your skills section, provided you keep the number to under 10.

First, you can break up your skills by category. This is most appropriate if you’re applying for a technical role since you can group the different technologies you use by their type.

For example, as a data analyst, you might want to divide your skills by the different facets of your job (programming, modeling, and data visualization).

Data analyst skills be different facets

This breakdown of your skills can also work well if soft skills are your biggest strength. For example, you can chunk your soft skills into categories like leadership, customer service, communication, etc.

Another way to classify your skills on your resume is by your experience level with them. Convey your expertise either in terms of years of expertise with that skill or by a rating you choose (beginner, intermediate, expert, for example).

Here’s an example of this skills breakdown in action:

Resume skills organized by proficiency

And again, you can also just list all of your skills without categories like the example below if there are fewer than 10:

Resume skills without categories

Let your work experience vouch for your resume skills

Now that you’ve got your top one to two skills in your resume objective and a dedicated skills section on your resume, it’s time to talk about how you’ve used your skills in your previous roles and projects.

This is especially important for soft skills. Put yourself in the shoes of the hiring manager.

Does seeing that someone described themselves as “attentive to detail” in their skills section mean much without seeing that skill in action?

It’s much more valuable if you highlight a time you were attentive to detail in a previous job. For example, if you’re an administrative assistant, you might say you “re-organized thousands of customer contacts in HubSpot without losing any customer information.”

Remember, it’s one thing to say you have a skill, but showing your knowledge of that skill in a work or personal project will carry much more weight in the eyes of the hiring manager.

This software engineer lists NodeJS and Django in the resume skills section.

Software engineer resume skills example

The skills don’t end there, though, because the job seeker’s work experience at MarketSmart weaves those exact skills into improving the click-through rate. Even this candidate’s intern experience shows how Django played a role in increasing reporting speed.

Software engineer skills in resume work experience

It’s best to start with specific work experience and then work backward to determine which skills you used instead of the other way around.

Regarding technical skills, try to be specific about what you did with the tool/ software you’re describing. Microsoft Excel is a program that can be used for many different applications, for example. Discuss specifically which functionality you used to accomplish your task (pivot tables, vlookups, etc.).

Match Your Resume Skills to the Job Description

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How can you identify the most common skills for the industry or role you’re applying for? The best way is to look at job openings for positions you’re interested in.

Here’s the process that works best to add skills to your resume:

  1. Look across 5-10 different job descriptions for roles you’re interested in and identify the 10-15 most common skills in those job descriptions.
  2. For each specific role you’re applying for, choose the 5-7 skills from your list that are most relevant to that job.

Yes, this means that you’ll have to customize your resume for each role you apply to. Customizing your skills section, however, will vault you into the top five percent of applicants and is the quickest way to increase the number of interviews you get.

Let’s walk through an example of how to customize your skills for a specific job.

Say you’re looking for a position as a digital marketer, and after looking at some job descriptions, you notice the most common skills employers are looking for are the following:

  • CRM: HubSpot, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, Pipedrive
  • Web Analytics: Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Mixpanel, Heap
  • General Tools: Microsoft Excel/ Word/ PowerPoint, Google Sheets/ Docs/ Slides
  • Optimization: A/B testing, customer segmentation, attribution modeling
  • Paid Ads: Facebook, AdWords, LinkedIn, Google Display Network, retargeting
  • Social Media: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn
  • Email Marketing: Mailchimp, ConvertKit, Drip
  • SEO: Content creation, keyword research, backlink building

Now, you’re specifically interested in a role with the following job description (this is a digital marketing role from Barnes and Noble).

Digital marketing manager job description

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

  • Develop and execute data-driven marketing strategies and campaigns with a strong focus on driving acquisition, engagement, and retention across multiple channels (e.g., SMS, mobile, email, social media, etc.) on time and on budget.
  • Aim to generate revenue, and deliver on key business objectives, ROI, and KPI targets.
  • Own, measure, deliver, and optimize key metrics and reporting on marketing activities across channels and platforms.
  • Identify trends and insights, optimize segments, spend, and performance based on data.
  • Utilize strong analytical ability to evaluate end-to-end customer experience across multiple channels and customer touchpoints and work cross-functionally to drive qualified traffic, improve conversion, and identify new opportunities to boost user engagement and retention through A/B and multivariate testing.

REQUIREMENTS:

  • Minimum 5-7 years of digital marketing experience with a minimum of 3 years demonstrated success in mobile, email, social media, PPC, and SEM marketing from concept to completion with a proven track record of success.
  • Results-driven mentality with exceptional detail orientation and knowledge of metrics, A/B testing, and ROI analysis.
  • Experience with testing and optimization platforms.
  • Strong track record of distilling actionable insights from data to improve multi-channel marketing strategies.
  • In-depth familiarity with email service providers and knowledge of marketing automation platforms.
  • Solid understanding of website analytics tools (Google Analytics, Amplitude, Appsflyer), email systems (Sailthru, Salesforce Marketing Cloud), and ad serving tools (Adroll, Facebook.)

Finally, we cross-reference our list of 10-15 skills with the skills this specific job is looking for (underlined above). This leaves us with the remaining 5 key skills:

  • Optimization: A/B Testing, Segmentation
  • CRM: Salesforce
  • Web Analytics: Google Analytics
  • Paid Ads: Facebook
  • Social Media: Email Marketing

There you have it! These skills are what will make up your skills section for this specific role. Don’t forget to include the seemingly most essential skills in your resume objective (for this position, I’d say those are optimization and A/B testing) and mention relevant work experience where you used some of these skills.

Note, It’s important to be truthful about which skills you know and which you don’t. A good rule of thumb is to ask yourself if you’d be comfortable being interviewed about a skill. If the answer is “yes,” then include it. Otherwise, it’s probably best to leave it off your resume. 

Notice how the resume below weaves key skills into the career objective, skills section, and work experience.

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Why this resume works

  • Giselle’s digital marketing manager resume is tailormade for Barnes & Noble. How? Skills motivate every section of her resume.
    • Starting with the most obvious section—the skills section—Giselle lists skills important to Barnes & Noble, grouping them in easy-to-read categories.
    • Even though the job description asks for knowledge of Sailthru, Giselle doesn’t have this experience. Instead, she lists other email marketing skills, such as Mailchimp.
    • Even if you lack experience in an area or two, don’t be deterred! Demonstrating a willingness to learn is highly valuable.
    • The work experience section is a prime opportunity to showcase your skills in action. Like Giselle, start with active verbs to tell how you used skills, software, and tools to positively impact the company. 

Lastly, if writing a resume summary or resume objective statement, leverage this paragraph to address the skills the company emphasizes most, and don’t miss the chance to connect your expertise to the specific company.

Job-Specific Resume Skills

Job specific resume skills.

We promised an extensive list of resume skills, organized by profession, and we’re not ones to break our promises!

Below you’ll find countless role-related skills you can include on your resume, along with some informational tidbits about each profession.

Remember that honesty is critical when building your resume, so we stand behind a shorter list of genuine skills rather than a slew of half-truths you’ll blush over in an interview.

Web developer skills for your resume

Web developers build the web apps we interact with in our everyday lives. From banking to transportation to Netflix, it’s hard to find a facet of life that isn’t touched by web development.

We did an extensive analysis of the top web developer skills employers are looking for in 2023, and below are the results in order of those most in demand.

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Top web developer skills

  • JavaScript (React, Angular, Vue)
  • SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle)
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • NoSQL
  • APIs
  • Cloud Storage (GCP, AWS, Azure)
  • Git
  • Java
  • Python
  • C#
  • PHP
  • Ruby

Data analyst skills for resume

Companies are currently swimming in a large pool of data. Marketing, product, engineering, and executive teams all rely on data to make the most effective decisions in the face of uncertainty.

That’s where data analysts come in. To be a successful data analyst, you need the right skills to clean, organize, visualize, and make actionable recommendations from data.

We analyzed over 100 job openings and determined the most in-demand data analyst skills needed to get a data analyst position in 2023. Below are the results in order of the most popular skills.

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Top data analyst skills

  • SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle)
  • Business Intelligence Tools (Tableau, PowerBI, Qlik, Looker)
  • Excel/ Google Sheets
  • Python (Pandas, Matplotlib, Scikit-learn, Numpy)
  • R (Dplyr, ggplot2)
  • SAS
  • Java
  • ETL
  • Git
  • Statistics
  • NoSQL

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Marketing skills for resume

No matter how great a product or website—unless a successful marketing campaign drives customers to that product, it won’t succeed.

Marketers must strike a balance between creativity and science to reach the right people at the right time to make them customers.

To do this successfully, marketers need a wide range of skills.

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Top marketing skills

  • CRM: Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, Pipedrive, HubSpot
  • Web Analytics: Adobe Analytics, Mixpanel, Heap, Google Analytics
  • General Tools: Google Sheets/ Docs/ Slides, Microsoft Excel/ Word/ PowerPoint
  • Optimization: Customer Segmentation, Attribution Modeling, A/B Testing
  • Paid Ads: AdWords, LinkedIn, Google Display Network, Retargeting, Facebook
  • Social Media: Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter
  • Email Marketing: ConvertKit, Drip, Mailchimp
  • SEO: Keyword Research, Backlink Building, Content Creation
  • Direct Mail

Customer service skills for resume

When a customer has a problem or a question, they need to get a prompt and accurate answer to ensure they remain a customer.

More than that, a strong customer service representative will build relationships with customers to help identify potential new features or directions to take a product.

To do this successfully, you need a potent blend of people skills while also knowing the tools of the trade.

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Top customer service skills

  • Bilingual
  • Strong Communication & Interpersonal Skills
  • Curious, Empathetic, and Professional
  • Willing to Learn
  • Multi-tasking
  • Organized
  • Goal-oriented
  • Problem Solving
  • Data Analysis
  • Enterprise Software
  • Experience with Business Processes
  • Detail-oriented
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Zendesk, HubSpot, Helpscout

Management skills for resume

No matter how effective a person is as an individual contributor, management is an entirely different job that requires an altogether different skill set.

To be an effective manager, you first must understand and relate to your employees while ensuring that company initiatives are hit on time. To get this done, you need a mix of different skills.

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Top management skills

  • Financial Analysis
  • Time Management
  • Leadership
  • Self-motivation
  • Conflict Resolution & Management
  • Managing Career Growth
  • Performance Reviews
  • Accountable
  • Bilingual
  • Ability to Motivate
  • Foster Team Environment
  • Multi-tasking
  • Ability to Work Under Pressure
  • Result-driven

Accounting skills for resume

Accountants are the unsung heroes of any well-functioning company. A company is only as successful as it can demonstrate through its financial reports.

Accountants need to be wizards with reporting and data while also maintaining a culture of rigorous organization. Accounting is a field that requires knowledge of particular hard skills.

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Top accounting skills

  • Financial Reporting
  • General Ledger Accounting
  • Quarterly Close Processes
  • Quarterly Financial Statements
  • Auditing
  • Tax Accounting
  • GAAP Accounting Principles
  • Expense Reporting
  • QuickBooks
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Accounts Payable & Receivable
  • Account Reconciliation
  • Compliance
  • Data Analysis

Project manager skills for resume

Project managers keep the trains on the rails. To be a successful project manager, you must know how to ensure deadlines are met on time and on budget.

In this role, you’ll need the ability to communicate with all different teams in a company and technical knowledge to help engineers remove any roadblocks they encounter that will prevent them from getting their job done.

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Top project manager skills

  • Project Management Software (Jira, Trello)
  • Microsoft Office/Google Suite (Excel/Google Sheets, PowerPoint/Slides)
  • Project Management Frameworks and Methodologies (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban)
  • Programming Languages and Frameworks (JavaScript, Node.js, Python, Django)
  • Data Analysis
  • CRM Experience (HubSpot, Salesforce)
  • Digital Marketing
  • Budgeting
  • Reporting
  • Planning
  • Problem Solving
  • Scheduling

Sales skills for resume

An effective salesperson can form meaningful relationships with new sales prospects very quickly.

To be able to sell a new customer on your product or tool, you first need to intimately understand their pains and what they’re trying to accomplish.

In addition to solid soft skills, you need to know the technical tools to track and manage prospects through the sales pipeline.

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Top sales skills

  • Strong Communication
  • Negotiation
  • Results-oriented
  • Empathetic
  • Reporting
  • CRM (HubSpot, Salesforce)
  • Written Communication
  • Presentation Skills
  • Problem Solving
  • Persistent
  • Resilient
  • Lead Generation (LinkedIn, Email)
  • Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Time Management

Administrative assistant skills for resume

When it comes to a career as an administrative assistant, there’s no skill more valuable than organization. How can you help others be at their best without ensuring all ducks are in a row?

Of course, other skills are needed to succeed as an administrative assistant, and we analyzed numerous administrative assistant job openings to determine the most in-demand skills for this career.

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Top administrative assistant skills

  • Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets
  • Microsoft Word/Google Docs
  • Microsoft PowerPoint/Google Slides
  • Financial Reporting
  • Scheduling
  • QuickBooks
  • Scheduling (Microsoft Outlook/Google Calendar)
  • Words per Minute you Type
  • Languages you Speak
  • Database Management
  • CRM (Salesforce, HubSpot)
  • Detail-oriented
  • Personable and Welcoming
  • Organized
  • Multi-tasking

Nursing skills for resume

The value of nurses in our society has never been more apparent than during the Covid-19 crisis.

A good nurse must have a rigorous understanding of the medical procedures and documentation they need to complete while also maintaining the soft skills necessary to build trust and understanding with patients.

It’s a very tricky balance to strike. To help in your pursuit of a new job in nursing, we compiled the most popular skills employers are looking for across a wide range of nursing disciplines.

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Top nursing skills

  • EMR Systems
  • Ambulatory Care
  • Emergency Care
  • CPR Certified
  • Best Practices
  • Long-term Patient Care
  • Compassionate
  • Organized & Reliable
  • Problem Solving
  • Infant & Child Care
  • Eldercare
  • Medical Documentation

Teacher skills for resume

With the shift to remote learning due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the skills required to be an effective teacher from afar are also changing.

Teachers now need to be more in tune with the technologies used for remote learning to reach students.

Still, there are some skills required to be a great teacher that haven’t changed. Based on our analysis, here are the top skills schools are looking for when they hire teachers.

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Top teacher skills

  • Lesson Planning
  • Blackboard/Moodle
  • Google Apps (Gmail, Sheets, Slides)
  • SMART Boards
  • Remote Teaching (Zoom)
  • Safe, Supportive Classrooms
  • Accountability
  • Communication with Parents and Students
  • Organization
  • Conviction
  • Problem Solving
  • Focused on Student Performance
  • Analytical

Check out how this teacher demonstrates their skills throughout their resume.

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Software engineer skills for resume

Software engineer is a broad, all-encompassing term. There are hundreds of specific disciplines within this umbrella that require different skills.

Still, there are fundamental and common skills that all developers must have. First and foremost, you need to be able to program! 

We collected the most in-demand skills for software developers to help you make the best resume possible.

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Top software engineer skills

  • Python (Django)
  • Java (Spring)
  • Ruby (Ruby on Rails)
  • PHP (Laravel)
  • JavaScript (Node, React, Vue, jQuery)
  • SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL)
  • HTML5
  • CSS
  • AWS, GCS, Azure
  • Unix
  • Git

Business analyst skills for resume

Business analysts combine skills from many areas to help drive outcomes that materially improve a customer’s core metrics.

A business analyst is a great communicator, a robust data analyst, and an effective project manager. After a project is complete, the business analyst then has to be able to communicate the outcomes to the executive team.

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Top business analyst skills

  • SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, SQL Server)
  • Excel, Google Sheets
  • PowerPoint, Google Slides
  • Tableau, Looker, Chartio
  • Python, R
  • Salesforce, NetSuite, HubSpot, Pipedrive
  • A/B testing, Linear Regression, Logistic Regression
  • Project Management (JIRA, Trello)

Student skills for resume

When you’re a student, it can be challenging to know which of your skills you should highlight when applying for your first job or internship.

It varies depending on the position, but at this point in your career, hiring managers don’t expect you to be an expert in all the tools you’ll need to do the job.

The key is to mention which skills you have some familiarity with and express an openness to learning on the job.

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Top student skills

  • Data Analysis
  • Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets
  • Microsoft Outlook/Gmail
  • Microsoft PowerPoint/Google Slides
  • Hard-working
  • Curious
  • Problem Solving
  • Studious
  • Committed
  • Social Media
  • Driven
  • Detail-oriented
  • Collaboration
  • Time Management

Data scientist skills for resume

Data scientists are hybrid programmers and statisticians. It can be tough to figure out which of your technical skillsets should be the focus of your resume.

The key is to touch on your primary programming language and put context around the modeling techniques you use regularly.

We analyzed over 100 data scientist job openings, and here are the top skills employers are looking for in these roles.

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Top data scientist skills

  • Python (Numpy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Keras, Flask)
  • R (Dplyr, Shiny)
  • SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle)
  • AWS (Redshift)
  • Supervised Learning (Linear and Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines, Recommendation Engines)
  • Unsupervised Learning (K-Means Clustering, Principal Component Analysis)
  • Customer Segmentation, Price Optimization

Human resources skills for resume

When it comes to the skills you need to get your next job as a human resources manager, it’s important to demonstrate a combination of people skills (it’s in the job title), but you also have to show command of the tools needed to get the job done.

You should demonstrate which phases of HR you have experience in. Whether that’s recruiting, benefits, compensation, or a combination thereof, these should be included.

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Top human resources skills

  • ATS (Workday, Jobvite, Greenhouse)
  • Compensation & Benefits
  • Payroll
  • Performance Management
  • HRIS
  • Recruiting (Sourcing & Interviewing)
  • Employee Onboarding
  • Benefits Planning & Administration
  • Employee Coaching
  • LOA, FMLA, PLOA, Disability
  • Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint
  • Recruiting Coordination
  • Compliance (OFFCP, FLSA, Unemployment)
  • Employee Retention
  • Management
  • Organizational Strategy
  • Labor Relations
  • Succession Planning
  • HR Analytics

Product manager skills for resume

Product managers help steer the direction of a company by working closely to understand new features and products customers are looking for.

A successful PM should have the technical skills to communicate fluently with engineers. They also need strong data analysis skills to be able to determine whether new feature launches are working or not.

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Top product manager skills

  • SQL
  • Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Mixpanel
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Hotjar
  • A/B Testing
  • Optimizely, Google Optimize
  • Basic Python scripting, APIs
  • Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Kaban
  • Jira, Github, Confluence
  • Google Analytics, Microsoft Excel

Recruiter skills for resume

Since recruiters are the first people prospective employees interact with in a company, they must have strong people skills.

Outside of that, a recruiter needs to be familiar with operating an ATS to keep track of applicants as they go through the application funnel.

In addition to that, they need to know various tools to effectively source new prospective candidates for a job opening.

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Top recruiter skills

  • Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word
  • HR Information Systems (Workday, Oracle HCM, Zoho, SAP)
  • ATS (Greenhouse, Lever, Workable, Breezy HR, BambooHR)
  • Sourcing Tools (LinkedIn Recruiter, TalentNest, Connectifier)
  • Full Cycle Recruiting, Intakes, Sourcing, Screening, Evaluating Talent
  • CRM (HubSpot, Marketo, Hootsuite)

Scrum master skills for resume

As a Scrum Master, it’s vital you demonstrate which project management frameworks you have experience in on your resume.

Scrum Masters help ensure project deadlines are hit by establishing and monitoring incremental goals along the way.

Communication and management skills are must-haves in addition to a few technical tools.

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Top scrum master skills

  • Agile Development & Best Practices
  • Agile Frameworks—Scrum, Kanban, XP
  • JIRA & JIRA Portfolio
  • Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio
  • User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Automated Testing
  • Project Planning & Scoping
  • Problem Solving
  • Data Analysis

Social media manager skills for resume

As the name implies, a social media manager must show prospective employers that they can use social media to drive customers toward a business.

It’s not enough, however, to demonstrate experience with various social media platforms. You must also clearly understand data and metrics to prove that your campaigns can and will work for a business.

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Top social media manager skills

  • Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, TikTok
  • Sprout Social, Hootsuite
  • Google Analytics
  • Google Docs/Microsoft Word
  • Google Sheets/Microsoft Excel
  • Photoshop
  • SEO
  • Paid Social Media Advertising
  • Data Analytics

IT manager skills for resume

IT managers need to possess razor-sharp technical skills while also demonstrating the ability to mentor and guide employees under their management.

Since the number of potential technical skills an IT manager can have is vast, you must demonstrate a firm command of at least a few skills.

On your resume, it’s much better to demonstrate expertise in a few skills than a weak command of a large number of tools.

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Top IT manager skills

  • Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • Agile/Lean Methodologies
  • Jira
  • APIs
  • Network Infrastructure (DNS, DHCP, SSL)
  • Linux/ Unix
  • Security
  • Python
  • Java
  • Project Management
  • SQL
  • AWS, GCS, Azure

Design skills for resume

As you might imagine, designers need to convince the hiring manager reviewing their resume of their creative ability. This is usually done via a portfolio.

Outside of your creativity, you also need to quickly and effectively communicate which tools you use to do your design work. One of the first things a prospective employer will check is if you have the technical skills they’re looking for in a designer.

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Top design skills

  • Design Principles
  • Typography
  • Color Theory
  • Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
  • Project Management
  • Storytelling
  • CorelDraw
  • Sketch
  • Canva, Vectr
  • Adaptable
  • Print Design
  • Photography