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There are three key skills types:
•Transferable - skills learnt in one field of work that can easily be adapted to a different field
•Job-related - skills or qualifications that are directly relevant to a specific job.
•Adaptive - skills that are difficult to substantiate because they cannot be proven by experience but by personality traits.
Clearly, transferable and job-related skills are the most desirable to include in your CV. Be sure to include the ones that will help you stand out. Here is a list of skills that are particularly popular with employers:
| •Communication •Teamwork •Initiative •Problem solving | •Flexibility •Computer skills •Technical skills |
Adjectives to use in your CV:
| accurate | logical |
| active | loyal |
| adaptable | mature |
| adept | methodical |
| broad-minded | motivated |
| competent | objective |
| conscientious | outgoing |
| creative | personable |
| dependable | pleasant |
| determined | positive |
| diplomatic | practical |
| discreet | proactive |
| dynamic | productive |
| efficient | reliable |
| energetic | resourceful |
| enterprising | self disciplined |
| enthusiastic | self-motivated |
| experienced | sense of humor |
| fair | sensitive |
| firm | sincere |
| genuine | successful |
| honest | tactful |
| initiative | teamplayer |
| innovative | trustworthy |
Below is a list of great verbs to help you express just exactly what you did with impressive vocabulary. These verbs are used to express responsibilities and tasks performed:
| accomplished | corrected |
| achieved | counseled |
| acted | created |
| adapted | dealt |
| administered | decided |
| advanced | decreased |
| advised | defined |
| allocated | delegated |
| analyzed | delivered |
| applied | derived |
| approved | designated |
| arbitrated | detected |
| arranged | developed |
| assisted | devised |
| attained | directed |
| blended | discovered |
| brought | distributed |
| built | documented |
| carried out | doubled |
| catalogued | edited |
| changed | encouraged |
| classified | engineered |
| collaborated | enlarged |
| compared | escalated |
| completed | established |
| computed | estimated |
| conceived | evaluated |
| conducted | examined |
| constructed | expanded |
| consulted | experienced |
| contracted | explored |
| controlled | facilitated |
| cooperated | finalized |
| coordinated | formulated |
| founded | opened |
| functioned | operated |
| governed | organized |
| grouped | originated |
| guided | overcame |
| handled | perceived |
| harmonized | performed |
| harnessed | pioneered |
| headed | planned |
| identified | prepared |
| implemented | presented |
| improved | presided |
| increased | processed |
| indexed | programmed |
| initiated | promoted |
| inspected | provided |
| installed | purchased |
| instituted | raised |
| interpreted | recommended |
| introduced | recorded |
| invented | recruited |
| investigated | rectified |
| justified | redesigned |
| led | repaired |
| localized | replaced |
| located | reported |
| made | resolved |
| maintained | restored |
| managed | reversed |
| mechanized | reviewed |
| merged | revised |
| moderated | saved |
| motivated | screened |
| negotiated | selected |
| serviced | tested |
| set up | trained |
| solved | transacted |
| sorted | transcribed |
| sparked | transformed |
| specified | tripled |
| started | upgraded |
| stimulated | validated |
| strengthened | varied |
| summarized | verified |
| supervised | vitalized |
| supported | won |
| systematized | wrote |
