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Your Questions about Resume Skills & ATS Keywords, Answered
Resume skills are anything you can actually do. ATS keywords are the subset the screen weights when matching you against a job description. Each guide ranks skills by recruiter weight so you know which ones to lead with on the page.
Aim for 30 to 45 specific technical skills, sorted into 6 to 8 named categories. Below 25 reads thin; past 50 reads as filler. Every skill needs a bullet that proves it; if no bullet backs it, cut it.
Right below the Profile Summary, before Work Experience. Recruiters scan top-down, and a handful of ATS parsers weight position when matching keywords. Burying the section at the bottom hides exactly the terms the screen is hunting for.
Hard skills and ATS keywords get you past the 6-second screen. Soft skills win the interview. Lead the resume with hard, then prove the soft ones with bullets (mentored 3 engineers, ran code reviews, chaired RFC reviews) rather than listing communication and teamwork as a row.
No. Pull the 10 to 15 most-repeated nouns and tools from the JD, and only add the ones that are honestly true for you. Run the result through an ATS Checker after to confirm parsing.
Software Engineering, Hardware, Data and ML/AI, Cloud, DevOps and SRE, IT, Cybersecurity, Testing and QA, Product, Project and Program Management, Engineering Leadership, Game Development, and Solutions Engineering guides are live across 70+ tech roles. New roles ship in the same format: ranked skills, ATS keywords, seniority splits, and bullet examples.
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Who wrote these
Built by an ex-Google recruiter
Emmanuel Gendre
Former Google recruiter · 12 years · 1,500+ tech resumes rewritten
I rank these skills the way I screened resumes: against the role profile, against the JD, and against the bar real hiring managers set. Every category, weight, and keyword comes from years of running the line at Google and at TechieCV.
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