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Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Aviation and Aerospace

These are the 22 terms our scorer checks a Aviation and Aerospace resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

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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.

  • aviation
  • aerospace
  • aircraft
  • dgca
  • easa
  • faa
  • airworthiness
  • line maintenance
  • base maintenance
  • ame
  • as9100
  • mro
  • component overhaul
  • flight operations
  • ground handling
  • safety management system
  • snag rectification
  • technical log
  • type certificate
  • turnaround time
  • on time performance
  • ata chapter

The eight questions for Aviation and Aerospace

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 aircraft, engines or components do you handle?
  2. 2.Which types, models or platforms are you licensed or trained on?
  3. 3.What is your turnaround time on a check or a task?
  4. 4.Which regulatory frameworks do you work under?
  5. 5.How many audits or airworthiness reviews have you cleared?
  6. 6.How many technicians or crew do you supervise?
  7. 7.What is your dispatch reliability or on time performance?
  8. 8.What is the most complex fault or event you have handled?
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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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