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ATS resume keywords for Pharma Quality (QA, QC, IPQA)

These are the 28 terms our scorer checks a Pharma Quality (QA, QC, IPQA) 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.

  • quality assurance
  • quality control
  • ipqa
  • gmp
  • cgmp
  • gdp
  • data integrity
  • alcoa
  • deviation
  • capa
  • change control
  • oos
  • batch record
  • bmr
  • line clearance
  • process validation
  • cleaning validation
  • apqr
  • cpv
  • qms
  • audit
  • usfda
  • eu gmp
  • mhra
  • 21 cfr part 11
  • quality risk management
  • vendor qualification
  • market complaint

The eight questions for Pharma Quality (QA, QC, IPQA)

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 batches, products or dosage forms do you cover in a month?
  2. 2.Which regulatory audits and inspections have you faced, and with what outcome?
  3. 3.How many deviations, CAPAs, change controls or OOS investigations do you handle in a month?
  4. 4.Which quality systems, software and standards do you work under by name?
  5. 5.How many validations or qualifications have you executed or reviewed?
  6. 6.What quality metric improved under you, such as right first time, rejection rate or audit observations?
  7. 7.How many analysts, IPQA officers or shop floor staff have you trained or supervised?
  8. 8.How many vendors, contract manufacturers or market complaints do you handle in a year?
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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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