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ATS resume keywords for Oil, Gas and Energy

These are the 29 terms our scorer checks a Oil, Gas and Energy 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.

  • oil and gas
  • upstream
  • downstream
  • refinery
  • pipeline
  • drilling
  • wellhead
  • hse
  • process safety
  • hazop
  • p and id
  • turnaround
  • shutdown
  • flare
  • distillation
  • crude
  • lng
  • offshore
  • onshore
  • api standard
  • asme
  • commissioning
  • plant availability
  • throughput
  • energy efficiency
  • epc
  • greenfield
  • brownfield
  • contractor

The eight questions for Oil, Gas and Energy

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.Which plants, rigs or terminals have you worked at, and what is their capacity?
  2. 2.How many turnarounds or shutdowns have you been part of?
  3. 3.What is the throughput of the unit you operate or maintain?
  4. 4.Which permits, standards and safety systems do you work under?
  5. 5.How many people do you supervise on a shift or during a shutdown?
  6. 6.How much unplanned downtime have you prevented or reduced?
  7. 7.Which control and monitoring systems do you use?
  8. 8.What is the largest incident or emergency you have responded to?
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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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