Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Company Secretary and Corporate Compliance

These are the 28 terms our scorer checks a Company Secretary and Corporate Compliance 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.

  • company secretary
  • companies act
  • roc
  • mca
  • board meeting
  • agm
  • minutes
  • resolution
  • secretarial audit
  • sebi lodr
  • listing compliance
  • annual return
  • statutory registers
  • din
  • xbrl
  • fema
  • rbi compliance
  • insider trading
  • esop
  • share transfer
  • corporate governance
  • due diligence
  • drafting
  • compliance calendar
  • notice
  • stock exchange filing
  • depository
  • related party

The eight questions for Company Secretary and Corporate Compliance

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 companies, entities or subsidiaries do you handle secretarial compliance for?
  2. 2.Which compliances and filings do you handle by name?
  3. 3.How many board, committee and general meetings have you convened in a year?
  4. 4.Which corporate actions have you executed, such as fund raises, ESOPs, mergers or listings?
  5. 5.How many secretarial audits, due diligences or regulatory inspections have you completed?
  6. 6.Which regulators and authorities do you deal with directly?
  7. 7.How many directors, promoters or senior stakeholders do you advise?
  8. 8.What compliance process, tracker or automation did you build, and what did it save?
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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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