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ATS resume keywords for Textile and Apparel

These are the 25 terms our scorer checks a Textile and Apparel 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.

  • textile
  • apparel
  • garment
  • fabric
  • yarn
  • weaving
  • knitting
  • dyeing
  • finishing
  • gsm
  • merchandising
  • tech pack
  • sampling
  • cutting
  • stitching
  • sam
  • line efficiency
  • dhu
  • aql
  • buyer
  • sourcing
  • production planning
  • shade matching
  • fit approval
  • shipment

The eight questions for Textile and Apparel

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 is your production output in pieces or metres per day?
  2. 2.How many lines or machines do you supervise, and how many operators?
  3. 3.What is your rejection or defect rate, and where did it start?
  4. 4.How many buyers or brands have you produced for?
  5. 5.What is your on time delivery rate?
  6. 6.How many audits have you cleared, and under which standards?
  7. 7.What is your efficiency percentage, and how has it moved?
  8. 8.Which stage do you own, from fabric to finishing?
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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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