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Glossary: BMU 130 The Resume That Gets the Call
- American Job Center
- A free, federally funded career office. Veterans get priority of service.
- ATS
- Applicant tracking system. Software employers use to store, search, and sort applications.
- base resume
- Your full, polished resume that you copy and tailor.
- bullet
- One line under a job that shows an action and its result.
- classification
- Your military job code, like a Navy rating or an Army MOS.
- combination format
- A resume that opens with skills and proof, then lists jobs by date.
- duty
- What a job required. Example: responsible for scheduling.
- gap
- A stretch of time without paid work.
- hard skill
- A skill you can show or test, like forklift operation or Excel.
- headline
- A one line summary under your name that matches your target job.
- keyword
- A skill or duty word the employer uses that a recruiter may search for.
- knockout question
- An application question set by the employer that can screen you out, like Do you have a Class A CDL?
- license portability
- Being able to use a professional license in a new state.
- match list
- Two columns: what they want, and where you have done it.
- must have
- A requirement the employer will not bend on, like a license.
- parse
- When software pulls the text out of your file and sorts it into fields.
- plain text test
- Pasting your resume into a plain note to see if the order holds.
- result
- What changed because of you.
- scale
- How big: how many people, items, dollars, or how often.
- standard heading
- A common section name like Experience, Skills, or Education.
- summary
- Two or three lines on who you are, what you are great at, and what you want next.
- target job
- The one job title your resume is aimed at.
- tracker
- A simple list of where you applied and what you sent.
- translate
- Turn military terms into plain civilian words without changing the facts.
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