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ATS resume keywords for Security Operations and Loss Prevention

These are the 28 terms our scorer checks a Security Operations and Loss Prevention 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.

  • security operations
  • physical security
  • guarding
  • manpower
  • access control
  • cctv
  • surveillance
  • patrolling
  • incident reporting
  • loss prevention
  • shrinkage
  • investigation
  • emergency response
  • fire safety
  • evacuation
  • security audit
  • vendor management
  • sop
  • deployment
  • shift management
  • ex servicemen
  • psara
  • risk assessment
  • vip security
  • control room
  • gate management
  • visitor management
  • asset protection

The eight questions for Security Operations and Loss Prevention

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 sites, guards or square feet does your security remit cover?
  2. 2.What incident, shrinkage, loss or theft reduction did you deliver, and by how much?
  3. 3.How many security personnel, supervisors or vendor staff do you deploy and manage?
  4. 4.How many incidents, investigations or emergency responses have you handled?
  5. 5.Which systems, audits and standards do you work with by name?
  6. 6.What security budget, contract value or vendor spend do you manage?
  7. 7.How many drills, trainings or audits do you conduct in a year?
  8. 8.Which VIP, event or high risk assignments have you secured?
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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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