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Role vocabulary

ATS resume keywords for Structural Design Engineering

These are the 28 terms our scorer checks a Structural Design Engineering 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.

  • structural design
  • staad pro
  • etabs
  • safe
  • rcc design
  • steel design
  • is 456
  • is 800
  • is 1893
  • seismic
  • wind load
  • foundation design
  • load calculation
  • detailing
  • gfc drawings
  • tekla
  • revit
  • autocad
  • high rise
  • industrial structure
  • pre engineered building
  • peb
  • bar bending schedule
  • design basis
  • analysis
  • connection design
  • codes
  • checking

The eight questions for Structural Design Engineering

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 projects or structures have you designed, and of what type?
  2. 2.What is the largest structure you designed, by height, span, area or tonnage?
  3. 3.Which analysis and design software do you use daily?
  4. 4.Which codes and standards do you design to by name?
  5. 5.What steel, concrete or cost saving did your design optimisation achieve?
  6. 6.How many drawings, bar bending schedules or design reports do you issue in a month?
  7. 7.How many junior engineers, draughtsmen or detailers do you supervise or review?
  8. 8.Which proof checks, third party reviews or client approvals have you cleared?
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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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