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ATS resume keywords for Talent Acquisition and Recruitment

These are the 28 terms our scorer checks a Talent Acquisition and Recruitment 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.

  • talent acquisition
  • recruitment
  • sourcing
  • boolean search
  • naukri
  • linkedin recruiter
  • ats
  • screening
  • interview scheduling
  • offer
  • joining ratio
  • offer to join
  • time to fill
  • tat
  • hiring funnel
  • requisition
  • stakeholder management
  • campus hiring
  • lateral hiring
  • bulk hiring
  • employer branding
  • referral
  • candidate experience
  • vendor management
  • cost per hire
  • headcount
  • niche hiring
  • hiring manager

The eight questions for Talent Acquisition and Recruitment

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 hires do you close in a month or year, and for which roles?
  2. 2.What is your time to fill, offer to join ratio or joining rate?
  3. 3.How many open requisitions or positions do you handle at a time?
  4. 4.Which sourcing tools, job boards and ATS platforms do you use daily?
  5. 5.How many hiring managers, business units or clients do you partner with?
  6. 6.What cost per hire, agency spend or referral share did you improve, and by how much?
  7. 7.How many candidates do you screen or interview in a month?
  8. 8.How many recruiters or coordinators do you lead, or which campus and bulk drives have you run?
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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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