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Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Legal and Compliance

These are the 23 terms our scorer checks a Legal and Compliance 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.

  • legal
  • contract drafting
  • contract review
  • due diligence
  • litigation
  • arbitration
  • compliance
  • regulatory
  • statutory
  • companies act
  • gst
  • labour law
  • intellectual property
  • trademark
  • nda
  • msa
  • sla
  • legal opinion
  • vetting
  • notice reply
  • board resolution
  • secretarial
  • risk mitigation

The eight questions for Legal and Compliance

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 contracts do you review or draft in a month?
  2. 2.What is the value of the largest matter or deal you have handled?
  3. 3.How many matters or disputes are you managing at once?
  4. 4.Which laws, regulations and jurisdictions do you work under?
  5. 5.What is your turnaround time on a standard review?
  6. 6.How many audits, filings or regulatory submissions do you handle in a year?
  7. 7.What risk or exposure have you identified and avoided?
  8. 8.How many internal stakeholders or business units do you advise?
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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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