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ATS resume keywords for Export, Import and Trade

These are the 24 terms our scorer checks a Export, Import and Trade 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.

  • export
  • import
  • customs clearance
  • letter of credit
  • bill of lading
  • shipping bill
  • dgft
  • iec
  • incoterms
  • duty drawback
  • epcg
  • hs code
  • freight forwarding
  • packing list
  • commercial invoice
  • certificate of origin
  • cha
  • port
  • container
  • consignment
  • fema
  • advance licence
  • documentation
  • buyer

The eight questions for Export, Import and Trade

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 shipments, consignments or containers do you handle in a month?
  2. 2.What is the annual export or import value you handle?
  3. 3.How many countries, buyers or suppliers do you work with?
  4. 4.Which documents, licences and schemes do you handle by name?
  5. 5.How much duty, freight or cost have you saved, and how?
  6. 6.What is your on time shipment rate or documentation accuracy?
  7. 7.Which systems and portals do you work in daily?
  8. 8.How many customs queries, detentions or disputes have you resolved?
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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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