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ATS resume keywords for Language, Translation and Bilingual Roles

These are the 31 terms our scorer checks a Language, Translation and Bilingual Roles 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.

  • translation
  • translator
  • interpretation
  • interpreter
  • localization
  • localisation
  • bilingual
  • linguist
  • language specialist
  • proofreading
  • transcreation
  • subtitling
  • jlpt
  • japanese
  • german
  • french
  • spanish
  • arabic
  • mandarin
  • korean
  • cefr
  • native speaker
  • cat tools
  • sdl trados
  • memoq
  • glossary
  • terminology
  • quality assurance
  • content moderation
  • language support
  • voice process

The eight questions for Language, Translation and Bilingual Roles

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 words, documents or hours do you translate, interpret or review in a month?
  2. 2.What quality score, accuracy rate or turnaround do you achieve?
  3. 3.How many clients, projects or support queries do you handle in your languages?
  4. 4.Which languages do you work in, and at what level, such as JLPT or CEFR?
  5. 5.Which subject areas do you specialise in, such as legal, technical, medical or retail?
  6. 6.Which translation or localisation tools do you use?
  7. 7.Have you trained, reviewed or led other linguists, and how many?
  8. 8.What localisation, content or process improvement have you delivered?
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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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