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ATS resume keywords for Quantity Surveying, Billing and Estimation

These are the 28 terms our scorer checks a Quantity Surveying, Billing and Estimation 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.

  • quantity surveying
  • boq
  • bill of quantities
  • estimation
  • rate analysis
  • ra bill
  • running account bill
  • billing engineer
  • measurement
  • certification
  • reconciliation
  • material reconciliation
  • subcontractor billing
  • client billing
  • variation
  • extra items
  • cost control
  • tender
  • bidding
  • contract
  • cpwd
  • dsr
  • autocad
  • ms excel
  • quantity take off
  • cost estimate
  • escalation
  • final bill

The eight questions for Quantity Surveying, Billing and Estimation

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.What contract value or project value do you handle billing and quantities for?
  2. 2.How many RA bills, client bills or subcontractor bills do you certify in a month?
  3. 3.How much in variations, extra items or claims have you raised and got approved?
  4. 4.Which software and tools do you use daily?
  5. 5.How many tenders, BOQs or estimates have you prepared, and for what value?
  6. 6.What material reconciliation or wastage result did you achieve?
  7. 7.How many subcontractors, vendors or packages do you handle commercially?
  8. 8.How many billing engineers or QS staff do you supervise, and which projects have you closed out?
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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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