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ATS resume keywords for NGO and Development

These are the 21 terms our scorer checks a NGO and Development 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.

  • ngo
  • development sector
  • csr
  • beneficiary
  • field survey
  • baseline study
  • monitoring and evaluation
  • log frame
  • donor reporting
  • grant
  • proposal writing
  • community mobilisation
  • shg
  • livelihood
  • capacity building
  • impact assessment
  • fcra
  • outreach
  • stakeholder engagement
  • sustainable development goals
  • field team

The eight questions for NGO and Development

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 beneficiaries does your programme reach?
  2. 2.What is the budget of the programme you manage?
  3. 3.How many districts, villages or sites do you cover?
  4. 4.What outcome has your programme moved, and by how much?
  5. 5.How many staff, volunteers or field workers do you coordinate?
  6. 6.How many donor reports or proposals have you written?
  7. 7.Which funders or partners have you worked with?
  8. 8.What monitoring and evaluation framework do you work within?
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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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