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Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Civil & Construction

These are the 22 terms our scorer checks a Civil & Construction 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.

  • site execution
  • quantity surveying
  • boq
  • rcc
  • reinforcement
  • shuttering
  • autocad
  • primavera
  • billing
  • estimation
  • structural drawings
  • concrete
  • survey
  • project execution
  • subcontractor
  • material management
  • tender
  • site supervision
  • high rise
  • infrastructure
  • quality assurance
  • safety

The eight questions for Civil & Construction

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 value of the largest project you have executed?
  2. 2.What is the built up area or length you have delivered?
  3. 3.How many workers and subcontractors do you supervise on site?
  4. 4.How much have you billed or certified in a month?
  5. 5.Have you brought a project in ahead of or behind schedule, and by how long?
  6. 6.Which software do you plan, model and bill in?
  7. 7.How many quality or safety audits have you cleared on site?
  8. 8.What structures or systems have you personally executed?
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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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