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ATS resume keywords for MEP and HVAC

These are the 28 terms our scorer checks a MEP and HVAC 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.

  • mep
  • hvac
  • chiller
  • ahu
  • vrf
  • ducting
  • plumbing
  • fire fighting
  • sprinkler
  • electrical
  • lighting
  • bms
  • heat load
  • cooling load
  • hap
  • revit
  • autocad
  • shop drawings
  • as built
  • coordination
  • testing and commissioning
  • energy efficiency
  • green building
  • leed
  • igbc
  • site execution
  • material submittal
  • method statement

The eight questions for MEP and HVAC

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.What project size, built up area or tonnage have you delivered MEP or HVAC on?
  2. 2.Which MEP systems do you handle by name?
  3. 3.Which design and drawing software do you use daily?
  4. 4.What was the largest project you completed, by value or scope?
  5. 5.How many contractors, technicians or site staff do you coordinate?
  6. 6.What energy, cost or schedule saving did you deliver, and by how much?
  7. 7.How many testing and commissioning packages or handovers have you completed?
  8. 8.Which green building, code or certification work 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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