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ATS resume keywords for Skilled Trades and Technician

These are the 23 terms our scorer checks a Skilled Trades and Technician 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.

  • technician
  • maintenance
  • preventive maintenance
  • breakdown
  • troubleshooting
  • installation
  • commissioning
  • electrical
  • mechanical
  • hydraulic
  • pneumatic
  • welding
  • fitting
  • wiring
  • calibration
  • spare parts
  • work order
  • downtime
  • mttr
  • mtbf
  • safety permit
  • iti
  • service report

The eight questions for Skilled Trades and Technician

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 years have you done this trade, and where did you train?
  2. 2.How many jobs, units or repairs do you complete in a week?
  3. 3.Which brands, models or systems do you work on?
  4. 4.What certifications or licences do you hold?
  5. 5.What is the most complex job you have completed alone?
  6. 6.Do you handle customers directly, and how many in a week?
  7. 7.Have you trained or supervised apprentices? How many?
  8. 8.What is your first time fix rate or rework rate?
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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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