Resume keywords & skills for a Database Administrator

Those that prove you keep it safe and tune it well: backup and recovery, high availability, performance tuning, query optimization, disaster recovery — with scale and results (e.g. 'managed 80+ production instances, a 5TB primary, tuned core reporting queries from 30s to 2s, and held RPO under 5 minutes'). A line with database scale, recovery metrics, and tuning multiples proves you can hold production better than a string of database names.

List the ones you've actually run in production. They differ a lot and nobody masters all — pick the ones you've genuinely backed up, tuned, and upgraded, and go deep with versions and context. Choosing keywords for the database the target role uses (the JD usually says) is more targeted than listing every engine.

Choose by your real lane. Operations DBAs weight backup and recovery, high availability, performance tuning, and monitoring; development DBAs / data modelers weight schema design, stored procedures, SQL optimization, and data migration. Aim honestly at the work you've done rather than padding with production-ops duties you never actually owned — being unable to carry that responsibility on the job is a real risk.

No — and no tool can promise that. Keywords only raise relevance; what earns a reply is your real database scale, your recovery and tuning record, and your ability to explain a solution clearly. PolishCat helps you see gaps and tighten wording — it doesn't sell a 'guaranteed pass' fear.