Nobody has ever been cast on eighty percent
Web design has a habit of expressing a skill as a proportion. A bar filled four fifths of the way, a circular dial reading seventy, a row of stars with three lit. It arrives from portfolio themes built for designers and developers, and it gets applied to acting sites without anyone stopping to ask whether it makes sense there.
It does not. Your skills read as a plain list of names.
The argument against the bar
Consider what a casting director does with the information. You list stage combat at eighty percent. What is the other twenty? Compared to whom? Is eighty percent stage combat safe to put on a set?
The number cannot be verified, cannot be compared between two actors, and is set by the person it flatters. In practice everybody puts everything at eighty to ninety, because putting anything lower reads as an admission and putting everything at a hundred reads as a lie. So the bars all look the same, carry no information, and take up the space where the actual skills could have been.
A list does the job. Stage combat. Horse riding. Conversational French. Then the reader either needs that skill or does not.
Sixteen designs, sixteen layouts
Sixteen designs were drawing that value in some form: filled bars, a circular dial, a ten-star rating, a bare percentage, and one that printed the word "Proficiency" followed by a number.
The meter came out of all of them. What did not happen is being forced into one shared list. Each design keeps its own container, its own grid and its own heading style, so a skills section still looks like the design it belongs to. Only the measurement is gone.
There is a footnote worth knowing if you ever wondered why your bars looked oddly uniform. The proficiency value was not being stored in a way anything could read, so the designs drawing those bars had been drawing an empty value the whole time. The bars were decorative. Removing them lost nothing that was ever there.
Writing the list
Be specific and be honest. "Dialects" is weaker than naming the three you can actually hold under pressure. Anything you would not want to be asked to do in the room on the day should not be on the list at all.
You can hide a skill without deleting it, which is useful when a skill is real but not relevant to what you are currently submitting for. The original thinking on skill levels is still worth reading for the other side of the argument. For the section around it, see every section your resume page can show and how to build the page.
