Skills Generator
Enter a job title, industry and experience level and get skill suggestions grouped into technical, tools, and transferable categories — a prompt for what you may have forgotten to list.
About the Skills Generator
Skills sections tend to be written from memory, which means they end up listing whatever came to mind that afternoon and omitting things that would have mattered. This tool works the other way round: it proposes skills associated with your job title, industry and level, and you pick the ones you genuinely have.
Suggestions come back grouped — technical skills, tools and software, and transferable skills — because a flat alphabetical list of thirty items is hard for a recruiter to scan and hard for an ATS to weight. The grouping is also a prompt: an empty tools category usually means you have under-listed the software you actually use daily.
Treat the output strictly as a checklist of candidates. Listing a skill you cannot demonstrate in an interview is worse than omitting it, and experienced interviewers probe the skills section specifically because they know it is where CVs are most often inflated.
How to use it
- Enter your job title — the more specific the better, since 'hydraulic modeller' returns more useful suggestions than 'engineer'.
- Pick your industry and experience level, which shift the suggestions toward the right seniority.
- Review the grouped suggestions and select only the ones you can evidence.
- Paste your selection into your CV's skills section, keeping the grouping — it scans far better than one long list.
When you would reach for this
- Checking an existing skills section for obvious omissions before applying.
- Working out which skills transfer when moving industry, and which need reframing.
- Building a skills section for a first CV where there is no previous version to work from.
Frequently asked questions
How many skills should I list on a CV?
Usually eight to fifteen, grouped. Beyond that the section stops being a summary and starts looking like a keyword dump, which recruiters discount and which dilutes the skills that actually matter.
Should I list soft skills?
Sparingly. 'Team player' and 'good communicator' are unverifiable and appear on nearly every CV. Transferable skills are far more convincing when they are demonstrated in your experience bullets rather than asserted in a list.
Are these suggestions AI-generated?
No. They come from a curated mapping of job titles and industries to associated skills. That makes them predictable and inspectable, but also means an unusual job title may return fewer suggestions than a common one.