Career Atlas

Skill

effective communication

99
résumés have it
36
roles span it
0.1%
of all résumés

effective communication appears in 99 U.S. résumés — 0.1% of all résumés — and spans 36 different roles. People who list it most often also carry Leadership Skills, Instruction, Spanish.

Based on Futureful's analysis of 102,822 U.S. résumés (2026).

Commonly paired with

The skills that people who have effective communication most often also carry, ranked by how strongly they co-occur. Great for planning what to learn next.

leadership skills
N=9instruction
N=9spanish
N=13driving
N=10microsoft office suite
N=8customer satisfaction
N=13english
N=18analytical
N=9safety
N=14time management
N=11records
N=10problem solving
N=15organized
N=11plans
N=16leadership
N=16

Roles that use Effective Communication

The roles where this skill shows up most, ranked by how many people in the role have it. Tap one to see its full skill fingerprint and career paths.

i.t. project managerN=3

Co-occurrence is measured across 99 real résumés that list this skill. Every pairing shows N, the count of real résumés behind it. How we count

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