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Skills vs strengths on a resume?

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Insight

Skills are teachable capabilities (SQL, contract negotiation, facilitation). Strengths are patterns that explain effectiveness (judgment under ambiguity, calm with incomplete data). A resume skills section should be skills. Strengths belong in stories and interviews unless a posting asks for them.

Guidance

  1. Sort your list: tool/method vs quality of how you work.
  2. Put tools and methods under Skills. Keep the list honest and relevant to the posting.
  3. Use strengths as the lesson or theme of a story, not as a comma-separated banner.

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Rules: Do not invent employers, job titles, dates, metrics, team sizes, or outcomes. If something is missing, ask me or write [unknown]. Keep hedges such as "approximately" and "more than" exactly as I stated them. Never turn a qualitative result into a number.

Sort this list into Skills (teachable capabilities) and Strengths (qualities that explain effectiveness). Drop clichés with no evidence in my notes. Suggest which skills belong on a resume for this posting.

My list and notes:
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Optional posting:
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