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ATS resume keywords for Chemical and Process

These are the 23 terms our scorer checks a Chemical and Process 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.

  • chemical process
  • process engineering
  • reactor
  • distillation
  • heat exchanger
  • mass balance
  • energy balance
  • p and id
  • pfd
  • hazop
  • batch process
  • continuous process
  • yield
  • conversion
  • purity
  • gmp
  • scale up
  • utilities
  • effluent treatment
  • asme
  • process safety management
  • dcs
  • plc

The eight questions for Chemical and Process

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 capacity of the plant or unit you run?
  2. 2.What is your yield or conversion, and how much have you improved it?
  3. 3.How many process improvement or debottlenecking projects have you run?
  4. 4.Which unit operations do you own?
  5. 5.How many HAZOP or PHA studies have you participated in or led?
  6. 6.How much energy, steam or utility cost have you saved?
  7. 7.How many operators and shifts does your unit run?
  8. 8.Which simulation or control systems do you work in?
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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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