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ATS resume keywords for ESG and Sustainability

These are the 28 terms our scorer checks a ESG and Sustainability 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.

  • esg
  • sustainability
  • brsr
  • gri
  • carbon footprint
  • scope 1
  • scope 2
  • scope 3
  • emissions
  • net zero
  • materiality assessment
  • sustainability report
  • iso 14001
  • life cycle assessment
  • renewable energy
  • waste management
  • water stewardship
  • csr
  • disclosure
  • assurance
  • climate risk
  • circular economy
  • stakeholder engagement
  • sdg
  • epr
  • extended producer responsibility
  • e-waste
  • cpcb

The eight questions for ESG and Sustainability

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 entities, sites or business units does your ESG or sustainability remit cover?
  2. 2.Which frameworks and standards do you report under by name?
  3. 3.What emissions, energy, water or waste reduction did you drive, and by how much?
  4. 4.What is the Scope 1, 2 or 3 footprint you have measured or reported?
  5. 5.How many sustainability reports, ratings or assurance cycles have you completed?
  6. 6.What is the CSR or sustainability budget you manage, and what did it fund?
  7. 7.How many suppliers, partners or stakeholders have you engaged or assessed on ESG?
  8. 8.Which certification, rating improvement or award did your work achieve?
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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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