Resume Keywords by Job Title

The exact ATS keywords, tools, and certifications recruiters search for — organized by job title. Pick your role to see the hard skills, soft skills, and credentials to work into your resume.

What a keyword page actually contains

Each link below opens one job title. The page lists the terms that recur in real postings for that title — hard skills, tools and platforms, certifications and licences, and the softer phrases hiring teams reuse. The wording follows how employers write, so it matches what a recruiter types into a search box and what an applicant tracking system indexes when it files your application.

Treat a page as an inventory, not a target. Nobody carries sixty terms on a one-page resume, and padding one with skills you have not used is the fastest way to lose a screening call. The useful pass is narrower: read your role’s page, mark the terms that sit behind work you have genuinely done, then check whether your resume states them in the employer’s words rather than your last company’s internal vocabulary. “Owned the intake queue” and “managed the ticketing backlog in Zendesk” can describe the same year of work; only one of them is searchable.

Choosing the right page when your title does not match

Job titles drift between companies, so pick by the work rather than the label. A “Revenue Operations Analyst” will recognise more of their vocabulary on the Business Analyst page than on a sales page, and a “Platform Engineer” usually sits closer to Site Reliability Engineer than to a general developer page. If you are switching fields, open two pages — the role you are leaving and the role you are aiming at — and write down the terms that appear on both. Those overlapping terms are the transferable part of your background, and they are what belongs near the top of the resume.

A four-step pass over your resume

1. Read the page and mark what is true. Skip the rest without guilt; a shorter honest list beats a long unsupportable one.
2. Search your resume for each marked term. Use the find function rather than memory, which tends to be generous about what the document actually says.
3. Rewrite, do not append. A missing term belongs inside a bullet that already describes the work, with a figure attached where you have one. A skills block stuffed with unattached nouns parses cleanly and still reads as filler to the human who opens the file next.
4. Then move to the specific posting. The title-level work is finished at that point; the individual job is a separate pass.

How the free checker fits

These pages are deliberately static: they describe a job title, not a vacancy. The checker at /tailor/ covers the other half. You paste your resume and one job description, and it returns the must-have terms from that posting that are missing from your resume, seniority mismatches between what the posting asks for and what your resume claims, and the formatting choices that make parsers drop content. It runs on screen in seconds, with no account.

Looking for the other half? Browse resume bullet examples by job title.

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