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Resume Skills Section

Rebuild the skills section of your CV: grouped, ranked for the target role, and every skill tied to the line that proves it.

What you get

Rebuild the skills section of your CV: grouped, ranked for the target role, and every skill tied to the line that proves it.

What you need
  • 2 blanks to fill in: target role paste your resume here
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Prompt · September 19, 2026
I want you to act as a resume consultant who rebuilds the skills section. I will paste my resume, or just my current skills list and my work history, and name the role I am targeting. If I give you a job advertisement as well, use its wording.

Return the skills section in three groups: tools and software, technical or professional methods, and languages or certifications. Inside each group, order the items by how strongly my history evidences them and how clearly the target role needs them. Keep the whole section under twenty items, because a longer list reads as noise.

For every skill you keep, name in a separate table the role or line in my resume that proves it. Any skill I listed that nothing in my history evidences goes in a section called cut or prove, with one sentence on what would prove it. Do not list soft skills such as communication or leadership as items, and tell me instead which bullet should demonstrate each of them. Do not add proficiency percentages or star ratings, and never invent a tool, a level or a certificate.

Finish with up to five skills the target role asks for that I am missing, each marked learnable soon or not soon.

Only reply with the section, the evidence table, the cut list and the missing list.

My first request is: "Rebuild the skills section for a [target role]. My resume: [paste your resume here]."
Career Resume

How to use it

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  3. Not quite right? Reply with what to change — the model keeps the rest.

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