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ATS resume keywords for Learning and Development

These are the 28 terms our scorer checks a Learning and Development 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.

  • learning and development
  • training needs analysis
  • tna
  • training calendar
  • facilitation
  • instructional design
  • lms
  • content development
  • e learning
  • train the trainer
  • onboarding program
  • leadership development
  • behavioural training
  • technical training
  • training effectiveness
  • kirkpatrick
  • training hours
  • batch
  • assessment
  • certification
  • coaching
  • competency framework
  • articulate
  • storyline
  • learning outcomes
  • feedback score
  • sales training
  • induction

The eight questions for Learning and Development

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 employees or learners do you train in a year?
  2. 2.How many training hours, sessions or batches do you deliver in a year?
  3. 3.What feedback score, assessment pass rate or training effectiveness result do you hold?
  4. 4.How many programmes, modules or e learning courses have you designed?
  5. 5.What business metric moved because of your training, and by how much?
  6. 6.How many trainers, facilitators or vendors do you manage or certify?
  7. 7.What training budget do you manage, and what did it fund?
  8. 8.Which LMS, authoring tools or platforms do you work in daily?
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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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