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Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Research and Academia

These are the 24 terms our scorer checks a Research and Academia 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.

  • research
  • publication
  • peer review
  • literature review
  • methodology
  • hypothesis
  • data collection
  • statistical analysis
  • spss
  • grant
  • funding proposal
  • thesis
  • dissertation
  • conference
  • scopus
  • impact factor
  • citation
  • postdoctoral
  • supervision
  • ethics approval
  • manuscript
  • abstract
  • experimental design
  • collaboration

The eight questions for Research and Academia

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 papers, chapters or articles have you published, and in which journals?
  2. 2.What is your citation count, h index or highest impact factor journal?
  3. 3.How much grant or project funding have you won or worked under?
  4. 4.Which methods, instruments or software do you use in your research?
  5. 5.How many students, research assistants or scholars have you supervised or taught?
  6. 6.How many conferences have you presented at, and were any invited or keynote?
  7. 7.How many collaborations, institutions or industry partners have you worked with?
  8. 8.Which review, editorial or committee roles do you hold?
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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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