Counted in the 58 newest of 58 open civil engineer adverts in South Africa that Honde has today. Use the terms that are true of you, in the advert's own words.
Civil engineering adverts ask for ECSA registration (or progress towards it), the discipline (roads, water, structures), design software and contract experience.
Put these in a Skills section near the top, in the advert's own words, and only the ones you really have.
Under Education and qualifications: the qualification, institution, year and NQF level, then registrations and licences.
Use these in your Work experience bullets: what you did, and the result.
Show these in your profile summary and prove them in your bullets; a list of adjectives on its own convinces nobody.
Two- and three-word phrases found in at least a fifth of the adverts, other than the terms above. Some are requirements worth echoing; some are just how adverts in this field are written.
Honde reads South African job boards, employers' careers pages and government vacancy circulars every morning. This page takes the open adverts whose titles match the role, newest first (up to 1,000), and counts how many mention each term from a list we keep per role, as a whole word or phrase, once per advert. The counts are refreshed every hour. A term missing from the list can still matter: always read the advert you are applying for.
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