Eight job families, six ATS platforms

ATS Keyword Bank

The vocabulary job postings actually use, grouped by role and ready to copy. Plus what each major applicant tracking system does with your file once you upload it.

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The Bank

Pick your role, copy the vocabulary

Keywords go by job family because that is how postings are written. The platform picker changes the parsing advice, not the words, since no system requires different skills from another.

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Job family

Applicant tracking system Usually visible in the application URL once you click Apply.

Keyword bank

Do not paste this list into your resume. A keyword block with no evidence behind it reads as padding to a recruiter and adds nothing a parser can verify. Use it as a checklist against your own history, then write the terms you genuinely own into the bullets that prove them.

Better than a generic list: the keywords from your actual job posting

This bank is a starting vocabulary for a whole job family. The posting in front of you is more specific than that. Paste it in and we will pull out the exact terms it screens for, then show you which ones your resume is missing.

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Placement

Where keywords actually count

Inside your bullets

A term in a sentence that proves it beats the same term in a skills list. The bullet carries the evidence; the list carries nothing a reader can check.

In your job titles

If your internal title was "Growth Ninja", put the conventional equivalent alongside it. Parsers and recruiters both search on the conventional one.

Spelled out once, then abbreviated

Write "search engine optimization (SEO)" the first time. Recruiters run boolean searches on both forms and you cannot know which one they typed.

Never in white text

Hidden keyword stuffing is detected, and it gets applications rejected outright. It has not worked for years and the downside is a blacklist, not a low score.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How many keywords should a resume have?

There is no target number, and chasing one is how resumes end up padded. Cover the requirements the posting names, each in a bullet that proves it. If a term does not describe work you did, leaving it out costs you nothing real.

Do different ATS platforms need different keywords?

No, and that is worth being clear about. The skills a job needs do not change with the software the employer bought. What changes between platforms is how your file is parsed, which is what the platform panel above describes.

Should I copy keywords straight from the job posting?

Use the posting's exact phrasing for anything you genuinely have, because matching is frequently literal and a better synonym scores as a miss. Do not copy requirements you do not meet; that fails at the interview rather than the filter.

Is a separate skills section still worth having?

Yes, as a short scannable block for tools and technologies. It is not a place to list soft skills or duplicate everything already proven in your bullets. Keep it to things with concrete names.

Does keyword stuffing work?

No. Hidden text and repeated terms are detectable, and the outcome when caught is rejection rather than a lower score. The measurable version of the same goal is making sure the terms you honestly own are present and evidenced.

How do I know which ATS an employer uses?

Click Apply and read the URL. Addresses containing myworkdayjobs, greenhouse.io, taleo.net, icims.com, successfactors or lever.co tell you immediately. It rarely changes what you write, but it does tell you how carefully to check the fields it prefills.

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