The Only Five AI Skills That Actually Get You Hired

The gap between tool lists and real skills\n\nEvery AI job post reads like a tool inventory. In interviews, none of that is tested. What gets tested is judgement.\n\n### 1. Prompt structure under constraints\nAnyone can ask a question. The skill is specifying role, input, format and failure conditions so the output is usable without editing.\n\n### 2. Verification\nYou are paid to know when the model is wrong. Show a workflow where you check outputs against a source.\n\n### 3. Workflow design\nOne prompt is a demo. A chain of prompts with a human checkpoint is a product.\n\n### 4. Data hygiene\nKnowing what should never enter a prompt is a hiring signal.\n\n### 5. Shipping\nA portfolio with three finished, small, real projects beats a certificate list every time.\n\n## How to prove it\nBuild one workflow that saves a real person real hours, document the before and after, and put a number on it.