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How to tailor your resume for a Procurement Specialist role

A screener on a Procurement Specialist posting does not accept negotiated with vendors as an answer to how much you bought or saved. Tailoring means stating spend under management and savings method. That match, more than any other line on the page, decides whether this resume gets a second look.

Four moves for this posting
  1. State spend under management by category, matching the categories the posting names; spend size is the seniority marker a procurement reader checks first.
  2. Quantify savings with the method attached, consolidation, renegotiation, matching any savings language the posting uses; how you saved is the skill, not just the total.
  3. Include supplier performance work, scorecards tied to a delivery improvement, matching anything the posting mentions; buying well is half the job, managing what you bought is the other half.
  4. Match your category focus, packaging, materials, logistics, to the posting's own wording; category match tells a reader whether your supplier relationships transfer to their spend.
The fact behind this

The claim that ATS systems auto-reject 75 percent of resumes traces to a 2012 marketing claim, not research. (traced to a 2012 vendor marketing claim)

Before you tailor anything

Start with the version a recruiter opens right now, then make these moves against it.

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