in this video i'm going to share 30 of the most effective cv keywords that will boost your cv if
and that's a big if they are used in the right way so we're going to cover what keywords have
the most impact on your cv why keywords are so important how to make your cv ats friendly using
keywords and lots of examples for you to take away and use if you get stuck or you need help with
any keywords just let me know in the comments and i will respond as soon as i can now there
are timestamps below in case you're looking for specific answers relating to keywords however a
warning is that keywords are very interchangeable so i would recommend watching from beginning to
end as i'll be showing you multiple ways that you can use these throughout this video for those new
to my channel i'm Amri Celeste an hr recruitment specialist and a career coach with over nine years
hiring experience and this channel is dedicated to helping you on your job hunting journey so first
what are cv keywords and why are they so important keywords are words or phrases that help us to
explain something specific so in the context of a cv this would relate to skills abilities
achievements or experience so if you were describing a project you worked on for example
you could use keywords like created launched or supervised in the context of a job description
the keywords that you would want to pay attention to would normally be under job duties or essential
and desirable skill sets so a job description might say we're looking for someone to manage or
establish a new department or division so manage or establish would be the key words there where to
use them on your cv the keywords i'm sharing in this video work best in your job duties so that
would be under the career history or employment history section of your cv they basically
supercharge the description of what you've done by simply changing your explanation in an honest
way so i'll give you lots of keyword examples throughout this video so how do you know which
keywords will have the most impact the keywords that have the most impact are action verbs
the easiest way to know which ones are the best to use is to simply look at the job description
for the job that you're searching for when you're looking for a particular job all you need to do is
simply match the keywords in the job description to relevant experience on your cv or resume
but you'll also need to boost your cv in other areas so that the manager or recruiter that's
looking at your cv will still be interested in shortlisting you and i'll show you how to do that
if you are building your cv for the first time or your current cv just isn't getting you the
results that you want then i do highly recommend also watching my cv writing video which i'll link
down below in the description it covers really important critical mistakes that you need to avoid
and how to build up your cv so that it's really powerful and it works for you so another question
that i'm often asked is how do i make my cv ats friendly if you don't know what an ats is it's an
applicant tracking system so this is a piece of recruitment software that receives job
applications and it also has a function that allows it to scan cvs for cv keywords that
match the job description and then automatically reject cvs that don't have those cv keywords in
or automatically shortlist the cvs that do include them so this is why people want to know how to get
their cv through an ats or to make their cv ats friendly so here's a simple example so if you
were searching for a customer service job online and you found a great job and the job description
included the phrase log customer service queries and your cv had the phrase answering
customer questions instead then the ats might not pick that up and your cv might be rejected
so this is really specific and it's unlikely that your cv would ever be rejected based on one phrase
but it's just an example to demonstrate that it's an automated system and the employer can program
it with anything that they want to target so if you've arranged or booked appointments for example
but the job description uses the phrase scheduled then use the phrase scheduled instead if you don't
have that experience then you can look at what you've done that may be similar and reword so if
you don't have customer service experience but you dealt with other queries internally for example
then you could simply say resolved internal queries or complaints now i'm going to show
you how to turbo boost these keywords so that once it does get through an ats system and in front of
a recruiter or hiring manager it increases your chances of getting an interview just a quick
warning here not to simply copy and paste keywords from the job description only use keywords that
are relevant to your skills and experience i often see cvs where people have robotically
swiped every keyword or whole sentences from the job description and shoved it into their cv
and this actually damages your chances because when it gets in front of a recruiter or a hiring
manager it won't be optimized in the right way it will just look like a weird copy of keywords
without the kind of context that makes an impact also when you're looking at job descriptions
remember to look at desired skill sets or preferred skills because these can be great
great keywords too so things like print to qualified or multilingual preferred it will
boost your cv over the top of other candidates if those keywords are included i've spoken to
loads of candidates who speak multiple languages but it's so natural to them that they just forget
but of course only include those keywords if you actually have those skills how to use keywords
on your cv so i'm going to give you some simple but really powerful cv keyword examples from six
different job types and show you how to use them so the first set of keywords are for
customer service customer support or any customer focused role so you've got solved reduced reversed
improved and exceeded so if we look at reduced someone might use this keyword by saying reduced
customer complaints but this doesn't really give enough information to put you over the top
so you could boost this by saying reduced customer complaints by 10 after volunteering to enroll in
complaint handling training so volunteered is another keyword in there now this is a really
simple example but it shows that you've taken a proactive approach to getting better at your
job and what the results were another might be the keyword solved an example could be
solved 70 of customer queries within four hours and increased positive customer reviews by 10
the rest are great keywords too because they automatically all lead into great things you did
achieved or sold for customers but they can also be used for any other
role or almost any other type of role but they do work great in customer or client facing positions
so the next set of keywords are good for admin secretarial or office based corporate roles so
we've got created organized decreased redesigned established and improved so these are all great
for any kind of internal support role that is not facing customers but all really strong
keywords so let's take created if you were to say created a new form for customer registrations
now that's not bad it explains what you did and that you created or achieved something which is a
great skill to show off but if we're really going to boost this keyword you could say something like
created a new environmentally friendly online registration form which increased
customer registrations by 20 or you could rephrase it to improved customer registration experience
by creating an online form that reduced registration time from 12 to 15 minutes for
customers so both of those are solid examples that show off what you did and some sort of achievement
or positive result for the company or customer so you've probably noticed by now but one of the key
things with these answers is they include numbers so numbers are a really great way to turbo boost
any keyword you just need to make sure that you attach the number to a significant outcome
but numbers are a really great tool to use with your keywords if we then look at decreased as
the keyword and the phrase being decreased costs on arranging company events by 50
saving 7k in 2020 really nice and specific but effective so if you're getting value from this
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bell so that you know when a new video is ready the next set of keywords are great for
sales account management or any roles connected to bringing in revenue or money so we've got awarded
negotiated doubled tripled or quadrupled one surpassed and persuaded so simple piece of advice
for these types of keywords is use numbers so i've already talked about the importance of numbers
but i mean tangible numbers that are connected to an achievement or an impactful result like instead
of saying double sales growth you could say surpassed my quarterly sales target of 13k by 17
increasing quarterly revenue by 8 now that's a lot of numbers and you don't necessarily need to
pack them all into a sentence like that but you can hear how much more measurable and impressive
it sounds than just to say double sales growth um you know doubled leaves the interviewer thinking
doubles from what double to what you know double doesn't show where you started or where you ended
up you could have doubled the amount of money you bought in but still missed your sales target by 50
so specifics are important you can use double tripled or quadrupled but just make sure that
you add numbers awarded is an easy one for sales if you've won any kind of achievement
so here you could use it in something like awarded salesperson of the year for reaching 150
of sales target absolutely include any relevant awards one at work whether in sales or otherwise
so next we've got management leadership or supervisory roles so some of the great keywords
for this are led managed implemented delivered supervised delegated trained or directed so i'll
take the keyword managed or supervised to start so if you were to put down managed contractors
or supervised a large team you would be using keywords however they would not be effective
and stand out you would want to change this to something like manage 1300 contractors across
five regional locations or supervised or trained a team of four senior sales reps effectively
with weekly coaching which resulted in team productivity increase of 10 percent
so you can clearly see the difference not only is there more detail but there are specifics here
the size of the team your strategy of weekly coaching and the specific result it doesn't just
say productivity increase it explains how much so these keywords like implemented are particularly
great for a cv because they would normally be followed by an impactful achievement so
they're pretty powerful stuff so next we've got keywords for retail or similar types of customer
facing roles we've got demonstrated initiated simplified trained and coached for retail a good
one is coached if you have coached so coached a team of five sales execs in delivering high
quality service which increased positive feedback to an average of four out of five from customers
or it could be something as simple as simplified in-store queuing by researching and recommending
in-store cue management systems so recommended is another great one in that sentence hopefully
you're getting the hang of this now but if it's confusing if you have questions
ask me in the comments let me know what you need help with either with your cv or while job hunting
so next we've got keywords for physical jobs like warehouse production or manufacturing or similar
we've got accomplished achieved completed conducted and modernized
a great one for modernized would be modernized in-house warehouse system increasing production
efficiency by seven percent and you're probably getting the hang of how keywords can be used
so i've said it many times throughout but all of these cv keywords are interchangeable
these are just examples and guides based on how i've used them in the past and how i've seen these
keywords effectively used by candidates who are ultimately successful if you need more help with
your cv i've created a winning cv guide which is a walkthrough guide of how to build your cv
it includes more examples of keywords what to do if you don't have experience and a very important
detail on cv structure it even includes an example cv so it's packed with advice and you can download
that i've left a link in the description to that guide below this video and if you are new to cv
keywords you may need to give a bit of practice to using them in a way that fits with your experience
on your own cv keyword cheat tool as a nice little bonus i've included a link below to a tool that
is massively helpful with keywords called tag crowd.com so if you go to this site and copy
and paste the job description into it it pulls out frequently used important keywords and it removes
words like and or if so you can see which keywords are the most important in the job description it's
totally free i don't get commission or anything like that it's just a good tool and there's a
link to that in the description below if this was helpful and you haven't already like subscribe
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