Resume key skills : some examples of key skills to put on a resume

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Key Skills (Adaptive & transferable) is one of the major section in your resume (CV). Here you can show off the skills that you posses & can fetch the attention of your prospective employers towards your candidature. It's mostly used to support your resume objective or summary of qualifications.

We recommend you to tailor this section in you resume as per the skills required for the job. The best source to find what to include in this section is "the job description". The job description is all what need to know about the recruiters requirements & to show that you meet the requirements you can include some desired skills ask by the employer into your resume key skills section.

But if you still need some help from us, here are some examples of key skills to put on a resume.

Basic Key Skills Examples

Communication

Team Player

Business Acumen

Confidence

Negotiation and persuasion

Problem solving

Leadership

Organization

Highly Motivated

Ability to work under pressure
Energetic
Enthusiastic
Friendly
Optimistic
Trustworthy
Steady

Transferable Key Skills Examples

Plan and arrange events

Listens attentively

Leads group discussions

Persuades others

Confidently speaks in public

Works well with others

Accepts responsibility

Handle complaints

Speak a foreign language (specify language)

Coordinate fundraising activities

Assesses situations

Manages projects effectively

Plans and arranges activities

Manages conflict

Delegates responsibility

Implements decisions

Enforces policies

Explain things to others

Run meetings

Above are the few examples of key skills that you may put in your resume. There could be many more others as well. If you have some good examples in mind feel free to share with us and if  like your examples we'll include them in our resume key skills list.
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