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ATS resume keywords for Marine, Shipping and Port Operations

These are the 32 terms our scorer checks a Marine, Shipping and Port Operations 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.

  • merchant navy
  • deck officer
  • chief officer
  • second officer
  • third officer
  • master mariner
  • marine engineer
  • chief engineer
  • second engineer
  • coc
  • stcw
  • solas
  • marpol
  • ism code
  • isps
  • cargo operations
  • ballast
  • bridge watch
  • engine room
  • dry dock
  • vessel
  • tanker
  • bulk carrier
  • container
  • port operations
  • terminal operations
  • stevedoring
  • vessel planning
  • berth
  • customs clearance
  • ship management
  • crewing

The eight questions for Marine, Shipping and Port Operations

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 vessels, voyages or port calls have you handled?
  2. 2.What incidents, inspections or audits did you handle, and with what outcome?
  3. 3.How much cargo, in tonnes or TEU, did you handle in a month or voyage?
  4. 4.Which vessel types or terminals have you worked on?
  5. 5.Which certificates do you hold, such as COC, STCW or specialist endorsements?
  6. 6.How many crew or staff have you supervised?
  7. 7.Which safety and compliance systems do you work under, such as ISM, ISPS, SOLAS or MARPOL?
  8. 8.What maintenance, planning or cost work did you own, and what did it change?
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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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