{"id":774536,"date":"2013-03-13T19:02:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T19:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/blog\/general\/resume-keywords-can-help-online-recruiters-take-notice\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T13:57:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:57:42","slug":"resume-keywords-can-help-online-recruiters-take-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/blog\/career-and-financial-advice\/resume-keywords-can-help-online-recruiters-take-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Resume Keywords Can Help Online Recruiters Take Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4>Question<\/h4>\n&#8220;How can I make my resume rise to the top of online job boards so that recruiters will notice me?&#8221; &#8212; Matthew from Norfolk, VA\n<h4>Answer<\/h4>\nLet\u2019s face it: searching for a job is hard work. And there are <em>so many people<\/em> submitting resumes to online job boards, trying to get their  qualifications noticed by employers so that they can get a chance at  landing the position of their dreams. How can you possibly stand out  from the crowd?\n\nIt helps to know how recruiters narrow their  choices. To get through the millions of online resumes on Monster,  Indeed.com,\u00a0 LinkedIn, Dice, and others, and find their perfect  candidates, recruiters use tools that help them search resume databases.\n\nThese  recruiters are under a lot of pressure from corporate and hiring  managers to find the candidates that can do the job and add value to the  organization.\u00a0\u00a0So, remember, recruiters want to find and place good  candidates like you into their companies. They just need a little help  in getting introduced to you and your resume.\n\nThis is why keywords are very important when you are drafting your resume.\n\nMany  job seekers are not aware of the importance of keywords, or how to use  them to rise to the top of search results. But it&#8217;s really simple.\u00a0 Just  be deliberate in including keywords\u00a0 that apply to the work that you  perform and the industry which you support.\n\nFor example, if you  work with software products such as Salesforce.com, then make sure to  include the following key words: &#8216;cloud computing,&#8217; &#8216;Salesforce.com,&#8217;  &#8216;Software as a Service,&#8217; and &#8216;SaaS.&#8217;\n\nWhen a recruiter gets the  requirements for a candidate that include experience in cloud computing,  then she just needs to type in the &#8216;cloud computing&#8217; keyword, and your  resume will be in her search results.\n\nAttempt to use as many  keywords as are appropriate for your position. Don&#8217;t overdo it, though  &#8212; don&#8217;t make it look as though you are filling up your resume with  keywords. Use your best judgment to know how many keywords are  appropriate.\n\nGood luck with landing your next job!\n\n<em><strong>Ricky Singh<\/strong>\nRicky Singh is a  practitioner of enterprise architecture, strategic business planning,  project management, business analysis, data analysis, and building  effective communication strategies for clients. He earned an MBA from  University of Maryland University College<\/em>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew from Norfolk, VA, asks, &#8220;How can I make my resume rise to the top of online job boards so that recruiters will notice me?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":767395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-774536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career-and-financial-advice","tag-start-your-job-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778690,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774536\/revisions\/778690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodwill.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}