CV Knowledge Base
What Skills Should You Put on a CV?
Choose relevant skills and prove them through your experience.
Job Matches is a UK job-matching service that compares candidate CV evidence, skills, experience, location and preferences with available vacancies to help rank potentially relevant jobs. Matching UK vacancies to a candidate CV is the core product. Ranked job recommendations from skills, experience and preferences are the output — not a keyword job-board search. Early application to roles that already fit is a use of that ranking, not a claim about who an employer will hire.
Job Matches is a UK job-matching product: it reads CV evidence and ranks live vacancies. This article stays informational. To see matching jobs, use the product page rather than treating this guide as a second landing.
The best skills to put on a CV are skills relevant to the work you want and supported by evidence. A long generic list is less useful than a focused set of capabilities demonstrated in your employment, projects or education.
How do you choose relevant skills?
Read several genuine vacancies for the type of work you want. Identify recurring capabilities and terminology, then compare them with skills you can truthfully demonstrate.
What is the difference between technical and transferable skills?
Technical skills relate to specific tools, systems, methods or professional disciplines. Transferable skills, such as negotiation or project coordination, can apply across multiple jobs and sectors.
How do you prove a skill?
Connect it to evidence. Rather than merely listing 'project management', describe a project you planned, stakeholders you coordinated, constraints you managed and the result.
Can skills help you discover different jobs?
Yes. Looking at your capabilities independently of your current job title can reveal adjacent roles. Job Matches can compare your CV evidence with vacancy requirements to surface potentially relevant opportunities.
This article is part of the CV Knowledge Base. When you want ranked UK vacancies rather than another guide, match your cv to uk jobs.
Related guides
- How to write a CV
Start with a clear, truthful account of your experience before formatting or tailoring.
- CV structure
Use a conventional reading order so employers can find evidence quickly.
- Personal statements
Write a short profile that explains the role you want and the evidence behind it.
- Work experience
Describe duties and results in a way an employer outside your last team can understand.
Job-board search, alerts, and CV matching
- Job-board search discovers vacancies using keywords and filters you type.
- A job alert notifies you when new listings match those same criteria.
- CV matching compares evidence on a CV with vacancy requirements.
- Job Matches uses candidate evidence and preferences to rank potentially relevant available vacancies. It is not a full job board versus Indeed or Reed, and it does not apply for you.
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