Resume Examples by Job
Every example here is written for one occupation. That matters because the advice that helps a phlebotomist is not the advice that helps a pharmacy technician: the numbers worth quoting, the credentials employers verify and the terms an applicant tracking system scans for are all different.
Each page also carries the market data for that job — median wage, national employment, projected growth and openings, taken from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Department of Labor. Knowing what a role pays before you write the resume changes what you emphasise in it.
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Healthcare support
Clinical and pharmacy roles, where certification and volume figures carry the resume.
Medical Assistant
Clinical and administrative duties on one page, with EHR names and patient volume.
Dental Assistant
Chairside work, radiography and the state rules that decide your expanded functions.
Pharmacy Technician
Retail versus hospital, sterile compounding under USP 797, and insurance adjudication.
Phlebotomist
Draw volume, first-attempt rate and the difficult populations labs screen for.
Nursing and direct care
Roles judged on patient load, acuity and setting before anything else on the page.
Licensed Practical Nurse
Scope, patient load and the licensure details a director of nursing verifies.
Certified Nursing Assistant
Resident ratio, transfers and prevention outcomes — not "assisted with ADLs".
Home Health Aide
Independence, caseload and documentation in the fastest-growing care occupation.
Office and administrative support
Roles where measured throughput — calls, claims, close cycles — carries the resume.
Medical Administrative Assistant
Scheduling, insurance and claims — and how it differs from a clinical medical assistant.
Customer Service Representative
The metrics employers screen on, and standing out in a role automation is shrinking.
Bookkeeper
Close cycle, reconciliation volume and naming the right accounting software.
Receptionist
Volume, judgement and the administrative work behind the desk that goes unwritten.
Skilled trades and logistics
Roles where a licence, endorsement or certification decides what you can be assigned.
Electrician
Licence class, apprenticeship hours and the residential/commercial/industrial split.
HVAC Technician
EPA 608, diagnostic depth, and whether you are a service tech or an installer.
Truck Driver
CDL class, endorsements and the safety record carriers screen on before anything else.
Warehouse Associate
Pick rate against the standard, equipment certifications and the WMS by name.
Retail, food service and hospitality
The largest entry-level markets in the country, where quantifying the work is the whole differentiator.
Retail Sales Associate
Sales per hour, conversion and attachment — the numbers most applicants never quote.
Cashier
Drawer accuracy and speed, plus how to write a first resume with no work history.
Server
Covers, section size and check average — and why service style changes everything.
Line Cook
Stations you can run solo, covers and ticket times — the one growing food service role.
Education, care and facilities
Where a credential, a ratio or a licence decides whether you can be counted on a schedule.
Teaching Assistant
Grade levels, IEP support and the paraprofessional requirement districts verify.
Preschool Teacher
Curriculum, assessment and the credential each setting actually requires.
Childcare Worker
Age groups, licensing ratios and the safety training that keeps you countable.
Security Guard
State guard card, post type and the reporting record that is the real work product.
Custodian
Square footage, floor care equipment and chemical safety — not a list of verbs.
Maintenance Technician
Trades breadth and diagnosis, at a median ~$13k above comparable entry-level work.
Business, finance and professional
Higher-paying roles where a credential and quantified business impact matter more than volume.
Project Manager
Budget, schedule and stakeholder outcomes — not a list of ceremonies and tools.
Accountant
Close cycle, reconciliation scope and how precisely to state your CPA status.
Executive Assistant
Seniority of judgement, board work and what separates an EA from an admin.
HR Specialist
Recruiting metrics, employee relations and SHRM versus HRCI, answered straight.
IT Support Specialist
Ticket metrics, admin-level systems and a clear route out of tier-one work.
Administrative Assistant
Scope, systems ownership and standing out as the role is automated.
Technology, healthcare and finance
The highest-paying roles covered here, where impact at scale carries the resume.
Software Developer
Impact and scale, not a wall of languages — and bullets that survive a technical screen.
Data Scientist
Business impact over model metrics, and whether your models ever reached production.
Financial Analyst
Modelling depth, forecast accuracy, and a straight answer on whether the CFA pays.
Network Administrator
Infrastructure scale and uptime — plus an honest read on cloud shrinking the role.
Registered Nurse
Unit, ratio and acuity, and the specialty certifications that move an offer.
Marketing Specialist
Campaign metrics with baselines, and how to handle attribution honestly.
Construction trades and allied health
Licensed and certified work, where hours logged and credentials decide what you can be assigned.
Dental Hygienist
The best-paid two-year degree here — licensure, permissions and throughput.
Radiologic Technologist
ARRT modalities, exam volume and why cross-training raises what you are paid.
Plumber
Licence class, apprenticeship hours and the service versus new construction split.
Automotive Technician
ASE certifications, flat-rate efficiency with comeback rate, and EV training.
Clinical, legal and creative services
Roles where a two-year degree, a state licence or a portfolio does the heavy lifting.
Physical Therapist Assistant
Setting, caseload and licensure — one of the strongest two-year clinical returns.
Surgical Technologist
The specialties you first-scrub, case volume and robotic platform experience.
Social Worker
Licensure level, supervised hours and caseload — BSW and MSW paths compared.
Graphic Designer
The resume exists to get the portfolio opened — and where AI is biting.
Real Estate Agent
Transaction volume and list-to-sale ratio, plus the 2024 commission changes.
Veterinary Technician
Anaesthesia as the dividing line, and an honest look at pay versus demand.
Engineering and public service
Licensed and certified professions where the credential decides your ceiling.
Electrical Engineer
Design domain first, project scale in real units, and when the PE actually matters.
Mechanical Engineer
Products that got made and volumes shipped — not a list of CAD packages.
Civil Engineer
The one discipline where the PE licence is a genuine gate, not a nice-to-have.
Respiratory Therapist
Ventilator competence, unit type, and why CRT versus RRT changes your pay band.
Police Officer
Built for civil service hiring — POST status, report writing and eligibility.
Firefighter
Why EMS certification carries the application, plus CPAT and technical rescue.
Technology, education and health information
The highest-paying role here sits beside one of the lowest — the data makes the contrast plain.
Information Security Analyst
Incidents contained and controls built — the best-paid occupation covered here.
Web Developer
Live URLs and Core Web Vitals — your work is inspectable, so lead with it.
Elementary School Teacher
Certification, grade bands and the student-growth data most resumes omit.
Medical Records Specialist
Audited coding accuracy and productivity, and which credential moves your pay.
How to use an example without copying it
An example resume is useful for its structure and its phrasing, not its content. Copy the facts and you produce a document that falls apart in the first interview question, because none of it is yours to talk about.
What is worth taking is the shape: which section comes first, how a bullet opens, where the number sits in the sentence. Notice that every bullet in these examples leads with an action and closes with a result or a scale figure. That pattern is transferable to any job. The specific figure is not.
The other transferable element is vocabulary. Where an example names a system, a standard or a credential, it is using the term the industry actually uses — which is also the term an applicant tracking system is scanning for. Substituting a synonym you prefer is one of the quieter ways to fail a keyword screen.
Why these pages carry federal pay data
Most resume advice is written without reference to what a job pays or how many people do it, which makes it impossible to judge. A role with 800,000 people employed and strong projected growth is a different application problem from one with 140,000 and modest growth.
The wage and employment figures on these pages come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics programme, May 2025 release, and the projections from the 2024–2034 round. They are public-domain government data, they are revised annually, and every page names the source so you can check the current figure before you rely on it in a negotiation.
Frequently asked questions
One page for most people below roughly ten years of experience, and two only when the extra page carries evidence rather than repetition. Screeners spend seconds on a first pass, so a tight one-page document usually outperforms a thorough two-page one.
No. The structure can stay fixed, but the vocabulary should follow the posting, because most applications pass through keyword screening before a person sees them. Adjusting terms you can genuinely support takes minutes and changes whether you are read at all.
The structures are deliberately simple — clear headings, plain bullets, no tables or graphics in the experience section — which is what parses reliably. Each occupation page also lists the terms that role’s systems commonly scan for, so you can check your own document against them.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics programme, May 2025 release, for wages and employment, and the 2024–2034 employment projections for growth and openings. Task descriptions come from O*NET, the Department of Labor’s occupational database.