Your current perm CV is probably split up by periods at each employer with a list/bullet references to both projects and internal responsibilities, etc, etc.To turn this into a contractor-style CV simply......Put your current employment position in a single “easy to gloss over” line at the top...list all the projects in reverse chronological order (most recent first) showing client name, project title and then e.g. (KPMG) in brackets afterwards (if it was KPMG obviously)...put your project role (not your consultancy title), start and end dates for the project...describe what the project/you achieved...avoid all waffle. I know you should anyway, but really, really pare it down to skills, products, sectors, etc.Bin all references to any internal responsibilities (mentoring, chairing the employee forum, etc) no matter how proud you are of them. If you worked on a genuine internal project then write it up as a project with your employer as the “client”. Don’t talk about any sales or client management. Change it to project initiation/pre-kick off activity and stakeholder management.Don’t actually try and pretend you’ve been contracting. But format the CV as if you have been.As for the generic/specific skills – I wouldn’t worry. Just get yourself in some place and then deliver. The reason I post on here is to relieve the boredom of delivering supposedly high pressure, complex business change projects that keep senior executives awake at night. It’s 40% common sense, 40% balls, 5% luck and 5% genius. And yes there are people who are less than 5% genius and are not very good at it. God help them.If you're up against another candidate and they've done fixed income pricing testing and you haven't then you might lose out in the interview, but most contractors are no more specialist than consultants.
