Technical Writer resume keywords

What a technical writer resume is screened for, and example bullets to adapt. Use the skills that are true of your experience, and put them inside accomplishment bullets rather than in a bare list.

Also covers: Documentation Specialist, Api Writer, Technical Author, Documentation Engineer.

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Skills and keywords

These are the terms most consistently used to screen technical writer applications. Spell tools and certifications the way postings spell them — a screen matches the words, not the meaning.

Technical writingAPI documentationDocs as codeMarkdownInformation architectureStyle guidesGitDiagramsEditing

Example bullets

Each one has blanks in brackets. Fill them with your own figures, or rewrite the line — never keep a number you cannot explain.

  • Wrote N pages of API docs for product.
  • Cut support tickets about topic by N% with new guides.
  • Moved docs to a docs-as-code workflow used by N engineers.

Verbs that signal ownership

Open bullets with these rather than with “responsible for” or “worked on”:

wrotecutmoved

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