Skills on a resume

A skill on a resume has two jobs. It has to match the word a recruiter searches for in the applicant tracking system — which means the spelling the posting uses, not the one you happen to type — and it has to be believable, which means a bullet somewhere that shows you used it. A list of twenty technologies with no proof reads as padding, and every item on it is something an interviewer may ask about.

The skills below are the ones that the resume examples on this site use most, and that their bullets actually show in use. Each page gives the spelling most postings use and the other spellings the JobCatch app recognises, where the skill belongs on the page, and the example bullets that name it, found by the same matcher the app uses to read job postings. A skill gets a page only when there is real material for one.