Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Pharmacy (Retail, Hospital and Clinical)

These are the 32 terms our scorer checks a Pharmacy (Retail, Hospital and Clinical) resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

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.

  • pharmacist
  • pharmacy
  • dispensing
  • prescription
  • drug interactions
  • dosage
  • patient counselling
  • drug information
  • otc
  • schedule h
  • narcotics
  • inventory management
  • expiry management
  • stock rotation
  • cold chain
  • drug procurement
  • purchase orders
  • formulary
  • hospital pharmacy
  • retail pharmacy
  • clinical pharmacy
  • medication errors
  • adverse drug reactions
  • pharmacovigilance
  • generic substitution
  • ward rounds
  • pharmacy software
  • gpat
  • d pharm
  • b pharm
  • pharm d
  • state pharmacy council

The eight questions for Pharmacy (Retail, Hospital and Clinical)

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 prescriptions or patients do you handle in a day?
  2. 2.How many medication errors, near misses or interventions did you catch or prevent?
  3. 3.How many SKUs or what stock value do you manage?
  4. 4.Which pharmacy setting do you work in, such as retail, hospital, clinical or online?
  5. 5.Which pharmacy software and systems do you use daily?
  6. 6.How many staff or trainees do you supervise or train?
  7. 7.Which licences and registrations do you hold, such as state pharmacy council?
  8. 8.What did you improve in the pharmacy, and what did it change?
Answer them and see your score before paying

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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