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ATS resume keywords for Electrical & Power

These are the 22 terms our scorer checks a Electrical & Power 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.

  • substation
  • commissioning
  • sat
  • fat
  • protection relay
  • switchgear
  • transformer
  • transmission line
  • ehv
  • testing
  • scada
  • earthing
  • cable termination
  • electrical drawings
  • preventive maintenance
  • breakdown maintenance
  • energy audit
  • power distribution
  • switchyard
  • panel
  • megger
  • load flow

The eight questions for Electrical & Power

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 substations have you commissioned, and at what voltages?
  2. 2.How many SAT or FAT cycles have you run or supported?
  3. 3.Which protection relays and switchgear makes have you worked on?
  4. 4.What is the capacity of the largest installation you have worked on?
  5. 5.How many people are in the team you lead or work within on site?
  6. 6.How much unplanned outage have you prevented or reduced?
  7. 7.How many preventive maintenance schedules do you own, and how many assets?
  8. 8.Which testing instruments and SCADA systems do you use?
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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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