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ATS resume keywords for Facility Management

These are the 24 terms our scorer checks a Facility Management 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.

  • facility management
  • soft services
  • housekeeping
  • hvac
  • dg set
  • amc
  • vendor management
  • sla
  • helpdesk
  • bms
  • preventive maintenance
  • plumbing
  • security services
  • pest control
  • cafeteria
  • space management
  • site audit
  • statutory compliance
  • energy management
  • manpower deployment
  • escalation
  • budget
  • checklist
  • uptime

The eight questions for Facility Management

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 much area, how many sites or how many seats do you manage?
  2. 2.What is your uptime, SLA adherence or helpdesk closure rate?
  3. 3.How many vendors, AMCs or contracts do you manage, and what is their value?
  4. 4.What is your annual facility budget or operating cost, and what did you save?
  5. 5.How many housekeeping, technical and security staff are deployed under you?
  6. 6.Which systems, audits and compliances do you run by name?
  7. 7.How many preventive maintenance tasks, DG runs or HVAC checks are completed a month?
  8. 8.How many escalations or client complaints do you close a month, and how fast?
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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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