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ATS resume keywords for Food Processing and Technology

These are the 24 terms our scorer checks a Food Processing and Technology 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.

  • food processing
  • fssai
  • haccp
  • iso 22000
  • food safety
  • shelf life
  • sensory evaluation
  • batch record
  • cip
  • packaging
  • raw material
  • supplier audit
  • traceability
  • product recall
  • microbiology
  • nutritional labelling
  • product development
  • yield
  • hygiene
  • temperature control
  • specification
  • quality control
  • gmp
  • line trial

The eight questions for Food Processing and Technology

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.What production volume does your plant or line run in a day or month?
  2. 2.Which food safety systems and certifications do you work under by name?
  3. 3.What yield, wastage, rejection or shelf life improvement did you deliver, and by how much?
  4. 4.How many products, SKUs or new formulations have you developed or launched?
  5. 5.How many audits, inspections or customer visits have you cleared?
  6. 6.How many operators, line staff or QC staff do you supervise?
  7. 7.How many quality checks, samples or microbiology tests are run in a day under you?
  8. 8.Which suppliers, raw materials or packaging changes have you qualified?
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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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