Keywords for Your Career Materials
Hiring managers and recruiters often look for keywords in applicants' resumes and cover letters to determine whether they meet the job qualifications. Where can you find these keywords so you can increase your chances of securing an interview? You can usually find this information in the job description.
When searching for keywords, you can examine multiple job descriptions for the same type of position to find out the most commonly used keywords used by employers. This can help you determine what hiring managers are looking for, and you can add those keywords to your resume and cover letter. Searching for keywords for your resume and cover letter. Searching for keywords in multiple job descriptions allows you to eliminate keywords that are not used very often and only focus on the most important ones.
As a note, you may see the same type of job or the same job title using different keywords, so this type of search can give you additional language to find your perfect fit.
Here are some examples of keywords based on your intended career field:
Business, Finance, Law
- Account Management
- Analytical Skills
- Budget Management
- Data Analysis
- Data Collection
- Financial Analysis
- Inventory Management
- Invoicing
- Law Enforcement
- Legislation
- Physical Security
- Portfolio Management
- Revenue Growth
- Risk Assessment
- Strategic Planning
Customer Service, Retail, Human Resources, Tourism
- Client Service
- Compliance
- Customer Experience
- Employee Relations
- Hospitality
- Human Resources
- Immigration
- Media Relations
- Performance Metrics
- Sales Operations
- Recruiting
- Talent Acquisition
- Talent Management
- Travel
- Tourism
Education
- Admissions
- Advising
- Coaching
- Computer Software
- Counseling
- Health Education
- Higher Education
- Online Learning
- Professional Development
- Program Development
- Special Education
- Research Projects
- Teaching
- Training
- Writing
Healthcare, Medicine
- Case Management
- Community Health
- CPR
- Fitness
- Healthcare
- Hospital
- Healthcare Logistics
- Nursing
- On-Call
- Mental Health
- Pharmaceutical
- Psychology
- Public Health
- Social Work
- Theraputic
Information Technology, Community Science
- Business Analytics
- Computer Applications
- Computer Science
- Data Collection
- Digital Media
- Graphic Design
- Hardware
- Information Security
- Operations Management
- Process Development
- Protoype
- Routing
- Software Development
- Technical Support
Manufacturing, Transportation
- Assembly
- Construction
- Cost Reduction
- Driving Record
- Electrical Engineering
- Engineering
- Installation
- Project Management
- Procruement
- Project Knowledge
- Quality Assurance
- Raw Materials
- Regulatory Compliance
- Safefy
- Supply Chain Management
Marketing, Media, Publishing, Graphic Design
- Advertising
- Analytics
- Branding
- Business
- Development
- Client Relationships
- Digital Marketing
- E-Commerce
- Editorial
- Fashion
- Industry Trends
- Inventory Management
- Journalism
- Market Research
- Marketing Strategy
- Strategic Initiatives
View JobScan’s top 500 resume keywords, organized by industry, that appear most frequently in real job descriptions.