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ATS resume keywords for Toolroom, Die and Mould

These are the 28 terms our scorer checks a Toolroom, Die and Mould 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.

  • tool room
  • toolroom
  • die
  • mould
  • jig
  • fixture
  • press tool
  • injection mould
  • die casting
  • edm
  • wire cut
  • cnc milling
  • vmc
  • surface grinding
  • jig boring
  • tool life
  • tool maintenance
  • first article
  • tool trial
  • gd&t
  • cad
  • cam
  • unigraphics
  • solidworks
  • autocad
  • tolerance
  • hardening
  • die maintenance

The eight questions for Toolroom, Die and Mould

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 dies, moulds, jigs or fixtures have you designed, built or maintained?
  2. 2.Which machines and software do you work on daily?
  3. 3.What tolerance, accuracy or surface finish do you routinely hold?
  4. 4.What tool life, cycle time or downtime improvement did you deliver, and by how much?
  5. 5.How many tool trials, first article approvals or new tool launches have you completed?
  6. 6.What is the largest or most complex tool you have handled, by tonnage, cavities or size?
  7. 7.How many toolmakers, machinists or apprentices do you supervise or train?
  8. 8.How much tooling cost, rework or spare consumption have you reduced?
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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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