How to Pick the Best Keywords for Your Resume (5-Step Tutorial)

How to Pick the Best Keywords for Your Resume (5-Step Tutorial)

Even if you are perfect for the position, using the right keywords and skills in your resume can determine whether your job application is actually reviewed or not. You know that recruiters and applicant tracking systems are looking for certain keywords and skills listed on your resume...but how do you figure out WHAT those keywords are, and how and where to use them? We’re going to cover it all in today’s video.

In this video, you'll learn:

- What resume keywords are
- Why recruiters and hiring managers rely on keywords when reviewing resumes manually
- How keywords work with applicant tracking systems (ATS)
- The 5 steps to follow to match your resume keywords to the job description
- A tutorial to use Jobscan to make adding the right keywords to your resume easy.

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[michellerobinson]

it would be helpful to demo how to use this tool. The tool pulls a laundry list of words without clear indications if they should be used, or suggestions how and where in your resume to use them. Another thing. If you have negotiations in your resume and the job description has "Negotiating" then it is not included in the score. Often changing your resume to use "negotiating" compromises its effectiveness. Pretty soon your resume becomes watered down and eventually you look more like Frankenstein than a qualified candidate.

[TechSY]

One unfortunately growing issue with "customizing your resume for each job description" is that many companies are starting to use applicant tracking systems that require you (the applicant) to create a profile to apply. And in many of those, the resume is tied to your _profile_, instead of a specific job application.
This means if you change the resume for while applying for one job, it would replace the resume for _all_ jobs you applied for on that system, even on still pending prior applications _on that site_

In this case, I guess you just have to compromise; customize the resume for that company.
Or if the application site covers more than the company in question, then you gotta just stick to a generic one. :/

[gaurangrajyaguru]

Thanks, however it's time-consuming and given that I am applying 30 jobs in a day, it's impossible.

[sirdopaminesjournal]

This would require a customized resume to each job one applies to. Who has the time?

[DJKhal]

Job market is so bad now. And then you have to spend so much time doing this for every job application. Why not fix the recruitment and hiring process/systems? Those are what's broken.

[singhranket]

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