Procurement Officer
•Perform buying duties when necessary.
•Prepare purchase orders and send copies to suppliers and to departments originating requests.
•Compare suppliers’ bills with bids and purchase orders to verify accuracy.
•Prepare, maintain, and review purchasing files, reports and price lists.
•Check shipments when they arrive to ensure that orders have been filled correctly and that goods meet specifications.
•Compare prices, specifications, and delivery dates to determine the best bid among potential suppliers.
•Review requisition orders to verify accuracy, terminology, and specifications.
•Determine if inventory quantities are sufficient for needs, ordering more materials when necessary.
•Calculate costs of orders, and charge or forward invoices to appropriate accounts.
•Contact suppliers to schedule or expedite deliveries and to resolve shortages, missed or late deliveries, and other problems.
•Track the status of requisitions, contracts, and orders.
•Respond to customer and supplier inquiries about order status, changes, or cancellations.
•Locate suppliers, using sources such as catalogs and the internet, and interview them to gather information about products to be ordered.
•Train and supervise subordinates and other staff.
Technology Skills
•Accounting software
•Data base user interface and query software
•Electronic mail software - Microsoft Outlook
•Enterprise resource planning ERP software
•Office suite software - Microsoft Office.
Resume Keyword Practices to Avoid
We’ve established that using resume keywords throughout your application boosts your chances of a human hiring manager seeing it.
However, be careful not to overdo it.
Packing your resume full of keywords is almost as bad as not including any at all.
Don’t forget that a real person will (hopefully) see your resume at some point. So use natural language that engages that person.
Tip
Make sure you balance hard skills vs soft skills on your resume to show you’re a rounded candidate.
Otherwise, they’ll think you’re either a bad writer — which indicates your communication skills aren’t good — or assume you’re trying to beat the ATS, making you seem dishonest.
Hidden Keywords
This is a sneakier trick some applicants use. It involves copy-pasting a keyword several times, but applying a white font so that the keywords are invisible.
But because the ATS scans all words despite their color, it counts all instances of a keyword. For example, a resume might contain five “invisible” instances of the keyword “business analysis” but only three “visible” ones. The “Find” tool can reveal where invisible keywords are:
Resume Objective
Business Analyst with over 5 years of experience supporting business solution software and performing business analysis. Aiming to utilize my strong prioritization skills and business analysis ability to achieve the goals of your company. Possess a Certification in Business Analysis.
Invisible keywords are used by some candidates.
The ATS counts all eight instances though, and “ranks” that resume higher.
However, since most ATS software lets the hiring manager see a plain text version of the resume, “hidden” keywords appear, and they’ll see your trick.
The result? You’ll come across as untrustworthy, and not worth hiring.