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Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Mining and Metals

These are the 23 terms our scorer checks a Mining and Metals 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.

  • mining
  • ore
  • beneficiation
  • crusher
  • conveyor
  • blasting
  • overburden
  • stripping ratio
  • grade control
  • dgms
  • smelting
  • furnace
  • rolling mill
  • billet
  • ingot
  • yield
  • recovery rate
  • metallurgy
  • tailings
  • haul road
  • production tonnage
  • plant availability
  • mine planning

The eight questions for Mining and Metals

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 is the production tonnage of the mine or plant you work at?
  2. 2.How many people work under you, including contract labour?
  3. 3.What is your recovery, yield or grade, and has it improved?
  4. 4.Which equipment fleet do you operate or maintain, and how many units?
  5. 5.How many statutory inspections or DGMS requirements do you handle?
  6. 6.What is your equipment availability, and where did it start?
  7. 7.How much cost per tonne have you taken out?
  8. 8.What is the largest expansion or new pit you have been part of?
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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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