Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Architecture and Interiors

These are the 23 terms our scorer checks a Architecture and Interiors resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • architecture
  • interior design
  • autocad
  • revit
  • sketchup
  • 3ds max
  • bim
  • working drawing
  • gfc drawing
  • space planning
  • elevation
  • section
  • site supervision
  • boq
  • vastu
  • building bye laws
  • nbc
  • concept design
  • material selection
  • turnkey
  • fit out
  • client presentation
  • shop drawing

The eight questions for Architecture and Interiors

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.How many projects have you completed, and what is the total area?
  2. 2.What is the value of the largest project you have run?
  3. 3.How many drawings or design packages have you issued?
  4. 4.Which tools do you draw, model and render in?
  5. 5.How many consultants and contractors do you coordinate?
  6. 6.Have you delivered anything under a certification or code constraint?
  7. 7.How many client presentations or approvals have you led alone?
  8. 8.What is your typical timeline from brief to issued drawings?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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