The Army Civilian Personnel Office is using the Resumix system to select qualified applicants who have submitted their resume into the www.cpol.army.mil website and resume builder. However, be forewarned: Before you submit your resume into the CPOL Resume Builder for a particular position, you should know that the human resources specialists and supervisors search resumes for five to seven keywords to find qualified candidates.

It’s important to identify these keywords from the “duties” and “qualifications” sections of job postings and add these words into your resume to demonstrate your knowledge, skills, abilities and specialized experience.

See if you can guess which set of keywords belongs to which Army position. Here are the three positions.

Select the set of keywords that belongs to the job title:

1. Facility Plans and Program Management, GS-1601-12, $69K – $90K
National Guard Units, DC National Guard

2. Army Volunteer Corps Program Manager, YA-0301-2/2, $48 – $71K
US Army Medical Command

3. Accessions Operations Analyst, GS-0301-11/12, $65 – $84K
US Army Accessions Command, Hampton, Va.

Keyword Set A:
Recruiting Operations
Accessions Operations Analyst
Staff continuity
Development and program implementation
Systems approach
Army Accessions and Recruiting
Studies and research
Advisory services
Budget execution
Operations management
Analyze actions
Mission taskings
Manpower planning and policies
Briefings
POM

Keyword Set B
Military-family issues
Human service programs
Benefits
Needs Assessments
Human Resources
Managing Resources
Volunteer Programs
Operational procedures
Quality of services
Conduct assessments
Volunteer recruitment

Keyword Set C
Principal advisor
Action officer
ARNG construction, maintenance
Facilities management
Real Property Master Plan
Long range construction plan
Facilities life cycle plan
MILCON
ARNG energy programs
GIS and CADD database
Direct subordinate personnel
Mobility
Exercise training

How to find your keywords:
Here is the duties paragraph for an accessions operations position. See the boldface words in this paragraph. These would be some of your keywords for your resume, if you were to apply for this position. Use this same technique to analyze an announcement for keywords and add as many of them as you can to the work experience section in your Resumix.
major duties: 
 
Works under the supervision of the Chief of Recruiting Operations and G3, USAAC, who makes assignments on a continuing and/or project basis. Serves as an Accessions Operations Analyst, responsible for providing analytical staff support for accessions and recruiting operations in support of the G3. Provides long-term recruiting accessions operations staff continuity. Serves as one of the USAAC experts for the design, development, validation and implementation of recruiting, accessions and operations programs. Serves as a G3's civilian subject matter expert for Accessions and Recruiting policies, strategies, designs, development and program implementation. Exercises extensive knowledge of the systems approach to Army Accessions and Recruiting and its interface with training. Performs studies/research and/or provide advisory services on planning, programming and Budget Execution System as it is applied to Army accessions and ARFORGEN operations required to man the Force.

Answer Key:
1. - C
Facility Plans and Program Management, GS-1601-12, $69K to $90K
National Guard Units, DC National Guard
2. - B
Army Volunteer Corps Program Manager, YA-0301-2/2, $48 to $71K
US Army Medical Command
3. - C
Accessions Operations Analyst, GS-0301-11/12, $65 to $84K
US Army Accessions Command, Hampton, VA