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ATS resume keywords for NDT and Quality Inspection

These are the 28 terms our scorer checks a NDT and Quality Inspection 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.

  • ndt
  • non-destructive testing
  • ultrasonic testing
  • radiographic testing
  • magnetic particle
  • liquid penetrant
  • visual inspection
  • asnt level ii
  • asnt
  • cswip
  • aws cwi
  • welding inspection
  • wps
  • pqr
  • welder qualification
  • asme section v
  • asme section ix
  • api 570
  • api 510
  • itp
  • inspection test plan
  • ncr
  • third party inspection
  • material test certificate
  • hydrotest
  • dimensional inspection
  • weld joint
  • acceptance criteria

The eight questions for NDT and Quality Inspection

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 welds, joints or components do you inspect in a month?
  2. 2.Which NDT methods are you certified in, and to which level?
  3. 3.Which codes and standards do you inspect against by name?
  4. 4.What is your rejection rate, repair rate or first pass acceptance on the work you inspect?
  5. 5.How many NCRs, defects or findings have you raised and closed?
  6. 6.Which projects, plants or clients have you inspected for, and at what scale?
  7. 7.How many hydrotests, material certificates or inspection reports do you review or sign in a month?
  8. 8.How many welders, technicians or junior inspectors have you qualified or trained?
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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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