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Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Laboratory & Life Sciences

These are the 23 terms our scorer checks a Laboratory & Life Sciences 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.

  • gmp
  • glp
  • sop
  • quality control
  • quality assurance
  • hplc
  • gc
  • uv spectroscopy
  • ftir
  • titration
  • chromatography
  • wet chemistry
  • sample preparation
  • calibration
  • method validation
  • stability study
  • coa
  • deviation
  • capa
  • batch record
  • iso 17025
  • analytical method
  • documentation

The eight questions for Laboratory & Life Sciences

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.Which instruments have you personally operated, not just studied?
  2. 2.How many samples do you process or test in a day or a week?
  3. 3.How many analytical methods have you validated or transferred?
  4. 4.What is your turnaround time on a standard test, and has it improved?
  5. 5.How many deviations, OOS or CAPA investigations have you handled?
  6. 6.Which standards does your lab run under and when was the last audit?
  7. 7.How many batches or lots have you released or supported release for?
  8. 8.What was your final year project or thesis, and what did it measure?
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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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