Skills for resume — what to list and what to prove
Good skills to put on a resume are the ones your bullets already evidence — plus strategic adjectives in summaries.
Skills for resume screens fall into three buckets: hard tools (Python, GAAP, Epic), domain knowledge (clinical trials, structural steel), and soft strengths (stakeholder management, mentoring). List hard and domain skills explicitly; prove soft skills in bullets instead of adjective lists.
Best adjectives for resume summaries are specific and defensible: "cross-functional," "evidence-based," "regulatory" — not "rockstar" or "guru."
Skills to put on resume by lane
Corporate tech: languages, cloud, frameworks — match the JD order. Licensed professions: registration, scopes, clinical systems. Trades: tickets, equipment, safety certs. Creative: tools plus portfolio URL.
DocuResume extracts skills from your experience text and highlights gaps against each posting's match score.
Resume bullet point format
One skill per bullet with context: "Built X using Y, reducing Z by N%." Avoid skill dumps with no outcome. After tailoring, re-run the scanner — keyword coverage should rise without inventing experience.