Career skills · Free tool
Skills finder: turn what you have done into resume skills
Choose the roles you have had, paid or unpaid, tick what you really did, and get your top skills written as resume lines you can copy. Your result is free and needs no sign-up.
- 16 roles, paid or unpaid
- Up to 10 skills, each defined
- Copy-ready resume lines
- No sign-up needed
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Skills finder: your result
From the free skills finder at CollegeCompass360. Replace every [bracket] with your own numbers.
Step 1 · Your roles
Which roles have you had?
Paid or unpaid, recent or years ago. Choose every one that applies.
Nothing chosen yet.
Step 2 · What you did
Tick what you really did
Only tick tasks you could talk about in an interview. Each one is evidence of a skill.
Choose a role in step 1 and its tasks appear here.
0 tasks ticked
Bonus
A finished skills section for 3 jobs
Locked. Your email opens it right here, on this page.
- Three skills sections written from your result, one for each matched career, ready to paste into a resume.
- Four honest one-line ways to show a parenting or caregiving break, with [brackets] for your details.
- A wider list of 23 careers with the typical entry-level education and median pay from the BLS.
Sources
Everything on this page is written in our own words from these public sources. It is a study and planning aid, not career advice: check requirements with the program or employer you have in mind.
- U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy: “Skills to Pay the Bills” (the six soft-skill areas)
- O*NET OnLine: skill definitions (active listening, social perceptiveness, coordination, instructing, service orientation and more), which this page puts in plain words
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook: each career card links its own page; education and pay are read from that page’s Quick Facts (2025 median pay)
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: what the education categories mean (for example “postsecondary nondegree award”)
Questions
Common questions
Soft skills, often called people skills or interpersonal skills, are the work habits that carry over from one job to the next, which makes them the core of your transferable skills: communicating clearly, listening, working on a team, solving problems, showing up reliably and keeping a good attitude. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy groups them into six areas in its “Skills to Pay the Bills” curriculum: communication, enthusiasm and attitude, teamwork, networking, problem solving and critical thinking, and professionalism.
Hard skills are specific, teachable abilities you can show or measure, such as running a register, entering records in a system, handling a budget or driving a route. Soft skills are how you work with people and handle the work itself. Employers hire for both, and a resume line reads best when it pairs them: a task you did (the hard skill) and how well you did it (the soft skill), with a number.
Yes. Parenting, caring for a family member, volunteering and side work all involve real tasks, and a resume describes what you did and how well, not who paid you. Label it honestly, for example “Family caregiver, 2022–2024” or “Volunteer coordinator”, give numbers where you can, and keep the lines you could talk about in an interview. The finder treats paid and unpaid roles the same way.
Yes. Choosing your roles, ticking your tasks and getting your top skills with resume lines needs no sign-up. An email unlocks the bonus: a finished skills section for three jobs, honest caregiving-gap lines and a wider career list, which opens on this page right away and stays open on this browser.