Without keywords your CV simply wouldn’t be found.

Sean Durrant
Aug 8, 2017 · 2 min read

I wrote a blog post about how searches of CVs use Keywords.

I explained that Recruitment Agents will generally have a database in which to store your CV in.

Over the years an Agency will potentially accumulate thousands of CVs.

Imagine all these CVs in a big digital pot (or even an actual pot if you prefer, yes, imagine 10,000 CVs in a big pot and yours is in it)

The keywords are the hook in which your CV will be retrieved, to build the shortlist of potential candidates for the role the agent is searching on.

This is a system called Boolean Searching that will depend on the words YOU’VE used on YOUR CV.

How CVs Are Searched (Sometimes)

If searching for say, a Design Engineer, that had used a CAD system called Solid Edge to Design Rolling Stock, the search string would be “Design Engineer” AND “Solid Edge” AND Rail OR “Rolling Stock”.

This would give a list of Design Engineers that had THOSE WORDS on their CV.

You can read the full article on my blog at http://www.seandurrant.co.uk/keywords-are-vital-for-your-cv/ but hopefully this has given you a good idea of what your CV needs to contain to be found for jobs in rail.

Sean Durrant

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Recruitment of Engineers seeking Jobs in Rail

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