Tips & Tricks | Include your technical skills keywords on your resume and LinkedIn Profile

Recruiter Tips & Tricks – Include all relevant technical skills on your resume

Technology job seekers are often screened based on their technical skills. Technical skills, include programming languages, tools, and operating systems you have a high level of experience using either through employment or otherwise.

List all of your relevant technical skills in a skills section on your resume.

For senior-level professionals, you can create multiple, more specific categories for your technical skills. Go a step further, and include achievement-focused bullet points in an experience section that explicitly mention your technical skills and put them into context.

How to organize your Technical Skills on your resume: Our expert Technical Recruiters recommend breaking down your Technical Skills on your resume into these categories:

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • Software:   
  • Methodologies/ Tools: 
  • Languages:     
  • Defect Tracking Tools: 
  • Internet technologies:     
  • Databases/ Database tools:       
  • Data Modelling Tools: 
  • Scripting Language:   
  • Project Tools: 

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