Some skills are role-specific. Others are multipliers — they make you better at every role you've ever held. These are the ones worth showing off.
- Written communication: show it by writing crisp bullets. The bullets themselves are the evidence.
- Data literacy: even non-technical roles benefit from SQL + spreadsheets + a BI tool. Name the stack.
- Project ownership: a bullet like "owned X feature from problem framing to post-launch metrics" signals scope.
- Stakeholder management: cross-functional ship stories — "partnered with legal, ops, and two eng teams to launch Y" — carry this.
- Prioritisation: "cut the roadmap from 14 to 5 items and shipped 4" is a prioritisation story.
- Teaching and mentoring: "onboarded 3 new hires in H2" or "authored the team's SQL style guide."
- Estimation and scoping: "re-estimated a quarter's roadmap after a reorg; the new plan shipped on time."
- Public writing: links to blog posts, talks, or OSS commits outside work hours.
- Analytical rigour: "designed the AB test, defended the stat plan, shipped the winner" beats "ran experiments."
- Calm under failure: "led the 3 AM incident response, wrote the postmortem, drove the 3 follow-ups to closure."