When you're writing up your projects in your CV and pulling out your biggests achievements, how do you want to summarise those achievements? In what you've learnt? Pulling out the skills is often the most effective way of doing this, but often there are lots of skills involved and nobody has a dictionary of exactly how you should express those skills.
For example, should you say 'problem-solving' or should you say 'executing in an uncertain environment', both of which might refer to the same skill. There are two approaches here:
1. Look at industry trends of skills by industry
2. Read the job description and then highlight certain skills in your CV based on that. .
Industry Trends
One way to understand how best to pitch your skills is to look at the data, specifically LinkedIn data on people who have been hired in particular industries recently.
The Linkedin World Bank collaboration allows you to find out the top in-demand skills for particular professions. For example, if you want to be a Management Consultant, you can see the top 10 skills here.
So you can see you need to be showcasing business awareness and leadership, but also that you might want to brush up on your knowledge of negotiation.
The Job Description
Using this approach cannot be successful without also using the job description and the skills highlighted there. But combining both allows you to prioritise skills as you write up your CV and also to help you strengthen your weakspots.