ATS Resume Keywords: A Practical Guide for 2025
How applicant tracking systems parse your resume, how to find role-specific keywords, and how Star Resume’s AI rewrites place them naturally without keyword stuffing.
Insights & how-tos
How applicant tracking systems parse your resume, how to find role-specific keywords, and how Star Resume’s AI rewrites place them naturally without keyword stuffing.
Learn the template patterns recruiters prefer—clean headers, consistent hierarchy, measurable bullet points—and why our layouts pass ATS with zero layout drama.
Turn vague responsibilities into quantified achievements. Steal these patterns to show growth, scale, revenue, and reliability in one line.
Avoid generic fluff. Use role-aware context and tone sliders to mirror your resume and company voice.
Explain gaps with clarity and credibility—parental leave, illness, travel, layoffs—plus sample bullets that reflect learning and initiative.
Recruiters often print. Learn how embedded fonts, margin math, and line-height keep your layout crisp.
Lead with skills, coursework, and projects. Use “evidence bullets” that prove you can learn fast.
A role-by-role keyword map and impact metrics PMs can use: roadmap, ARR, adoption, retention, velocity.
Replace tech stacks and chores with user impact, scale, reliability, and speed improvements—plus sample bullets.
Use color and typography tastefully without breaking parsers. Columns, icons, and spacing that still parse.
Everything to verify in five minutes: headings, tense, numbers, date formats, and domain keywords.
Use job description signals and a lightweight keyword diff to generate confident, role-specific bullets.
Retrieval-augmented generation for support teams: how it works, when to use it, and pitfalls to avoid.
Define deflection, attribution windows, intent match, and how to avoid inflated numbers.
How redaction, domain constraints, and citations build trust—and when to escalate to a human.
Connect sources, set tone, enable guardrails, and deploy to web, Slack, and WhatsApp.
Control spend with caching, model routing, truncation, and channel-based limits.
Auto-detection, locale style, and fallback strategies for global audiences.
Blend AI speed with human accuracy; escalation thresholds and routing examples.
Fix duplications, stale pages, and canonical URLs so retrieval stays relevant.
Prompt length, link previews, rate limits, and reply styles per channel.
Data retention, region locking, and audit trails explained in plain language.
Set guardrails plus examples for concise, empathetic, and authoritative styles.
Detect frustration, risk, or revenue opportunity; pass transcripts and context to agents.
Deaimer AI helps you build ATS-safe resumes with modern templates and AI-powered rewrites, and deploy a secure Support Bot that answers from your docs with citations and guardrails.