Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Stock Broking and Capital Markets

These are the 28 terms our scorer checks a Stock Broking and Capital Markets 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.

  • equity dealer
  • dealing
  • nism
  • nse
  • bse
  • demat
  • trading terminal
  • odin
  • brokerage
  • f&o
  • futures and options
  • derivatives
  • margin
  • client acquisition
  • hni
  • advisory
  • research calls
  • portfolio management
  • pms
  • mutual fund
  • ipo
  • compliance
  • sebi
  • kyc
  • revenue
  • activation
  • franchise
  • sub broker

The eight questions for Stock Broking and Capital Markets

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.What is the brokerage, revenue or AUM you generate or manage?
  2. 2.How many clients do you manage, and how many are active traders?
  3. 3.What is your target achievement in revenue, accounts or activation?
  4. 4.Which segments and products do you deal in?
  5. 5.Which certifications do you hold, and which are current?
  6. 6.Which trading terminals, back office and CRM systems do you work in?
  7. 7.How many sub brokers, franchisees or relationship managers do you support or lead?
  8. 8.How many compliance checks, KYC updates or audit points do you handle, and with what outcome?
Answer them and see your score before paying

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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