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ATS resume keywords for GRC, Risk and Privacy

These are the 28 terms our scorer checks a GRC, Risk and Privacy 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.

  • grc
  • governance
  • risk management
  • compliance
  • iso 27001
  • soc 2
  • nist
  • nist csf
  • gdpr
  • dpdp
  • privacy
  • data protection
  • dpia
  • audit
  • internal audit
  • control testing
  • risk assessment
  • risk register
  • third party risk
  • vendor risk
  • tisax
  • pci dss
  • hipaa
  • business continuity
  • bcp
  • vciso
  • archer
  • isms

The eight questions for GRC, Risk and Privacy

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 controls, policies, entities or business units does your GRC remit cover?
  2. 2.Which frameworks, standards and regulations do you work under by name?
  3. 3.How many audits, certifications or assessments have you led or cleared, and with what outcome?
  4. 4.How many risks, findings or issues do you track and close in a quarter?
  5. 5.How many vendors or third parties have you assessed for risk or privacy?
  6. 6.Which privacy work have you delivered, such as DPIAs, records of processing or subject requests?
  7. 7.Which GRC tools and platforms do you work in daily?
  8. 8.How many employees, teams or stakeholders have you trained or advised on compliance?
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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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