Pick your job and copy its hard skills, tools and soft skills. Then check which ones your resume already shows.
24 hard skills and tools in 4 groups. See them on an example resume
Talked an upset caller through a billing error step by step until it was fixed on the same call.
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Tools, systems and certifications under their own headings, from the same lists our resume templates use.
Paste it and every skill turns green or stays grey, so you only add what's missing.
Each one comes with the kind of bullet that shows it, so it's not just a claim.
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Every list below comes from one of our example resumes: the hard skills, tools and certifications a recruiter searches for in that job, in the words job postings use. Copy the ones you really have. The soft skills under each kind of job come with a bullet that shows the skill instead of just naming it.
Soft skills for these jobs:PatienceConflict resolutionTeamworkCommunicationReliability
Soft skills for these jobs:OrganizationDiscretionPrioritizationCommunicationInitiative
Soft skills for these jobs:EmpathyCommunicationAttention to detailCalm under pressureTeamwork
Soft skills for these jobs:Problem solvingCommunicationCollaborationMentoringOwnership
Soft skills for these jobs:CuriosityAttention to detailStakeholder managementCommunicationPresentation
Soft skills for these jobs:Attention to detailIntegrityNegotiationCommunicationTime management
Soft skills for these jobs:PersuasionActive listeningResilienceRelationship buildingCreativity
Soft skills for these jobs:LeadershipStakeholder managementDecision makingPrioritizationConflict resolution
Soft skills for these jobs:DiscretionActive listeningJudgmentWritten communicationOrganization
Soft skills for these jobs:Problem solvingSafety awarenessAttention to detailTeamworkCommunication
Soft skills for these jobs:ReliabilityAttention to detailCalm under pressureCommunicationTime management
Soft skills for these jobs:PatienceCommunicationEmpathyOrganizationAdaptability
Soft skills for these jobs:CreativityOpenness to feedbackTime managementCollaborationAttention to detail
A resume needs both. They go in different places and you prove them in different ways.
A skills list puts the word on the page. A bullet shows where you used it and what came of it, and that is what makes a recruiter believe it.
BeforeSkills: Excel
AfterBuilt an Excel tracker with pivot tables that lists overdue invoices by customer every Monday.
BeforeExcellent communication skills
AfterExplained a new billing system to customers by phone and email during its first month, and wrote the help article the team linked to.
BeforeStrong leader
AfterRan a night-shift team of six pickers and trained two of them to lead the shift on my days off.
BeforePython
AfterWrote a Python script that checks supplier price files for errors before import, replacing a manual check.
BeforeTeam player
AfterCovered a colleague's medication round during an emergency on the ward so no patient's dose was late.
BeforeGood problem solver
AfterTraced a breaker that kept tripping to a shared neutral and rewired the circuit to code.
Paste your own bullets into the bullet checker to find the ones that name a duty but no result.
That’s the range across our 60 example resumes, in 3 or 4 labeled groups such as tools, methods and certifications. A short list a recruiter can scan beats a wall of 40.
Lead with the skills the job posting names first. The summary sits at the top, so it gets read first.
A skill that only sits in a list is a claim. In a bullet it’s evidence: what you did with it and what changed.
If the job says “Microsoft Excel”, write that, not “spreadsheets”. Paste the posting into the keyword scanner to see the skills it asks for most.
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The ones the job posting asks for that you really have. Start with hard skills: the tools, systems, methods and licenses named in the ad, written the way the ad writes them. Add two or three soft skills the posting stresses, and show each of them in a bullet. Leave out anything you couldn't talk about in an interview.
A hard skill is something you learned and could be tested on, like SQL, IV therapy or a forklift license. A soft skill is how you work with people, time and pressure, like communication or teamwork. Recruiters search for hard skills by name, so list them. Soft skills are easy to claim and hard to believe, so prove them in your bullets.
Enough to cover what the job asks for, and no more than you can back up. Each of our 60 example resumes lists between 11 and 22 skills in 3 or 4 labelled groups. A list of 40 reads as padding, and a recruiter can ask about any line on it.
Only the two or three a posting names outright. Put the proof in your bullets instead: “Trained four new starters” shows leadership better than the word does. Our keyword scanner still picks out the soft skills a posting asks for, but gives each one less weight than a hard skill, because a bare claim proves less.
From the keyword lists behind our 60 ATS resume templates: 1,382 different hard skills, tools and certifications in all, grouped the way each job is. The soft skills and the example bullets were written for this page. Always check them against the posting you're applying to, since every employer words things a little differently.
No. The check runs in your browser and nothing you paste is sent to ATSPrep or anyone else. Close the tab and it's gone.
Add your skills in the Studio. Job match reads your resume against the posting as you edit, then you save a clean PDF or Word file.
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