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Dietitian resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what dietitians actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most dietitians should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Accredited Practising Dietitian with experience assessing nutritional status, developing individualised care plans, and counselling patients across clinical and community settings. Comfortable managing complex caseloads involving chronic disease, malnutrition risk, and behaviour change, with a strong grounding in evidence-based practice and multidisciplinary collaboration.
Key skills
- Clinical assessment and treatment
- Care planning and coordination
- Patient counselling and health education
- Nutrition Care Process documentation
- Dietary analysis software
- Food composition databases (AUSNUT/NUTTAB)
- Electronic health records (EHR) systems
- Telehealth service delivery
- Stakeholder and multidisciplinary team management
- Written clinical documentation
Experience: example bullet points
- Assessed nutritional status and medical history for patients referred from medical and surgical wards, identifying malnutrition risk and dietary needs within required clinical timeframes
- Developed individualised meal plans and nutrition interventions for patients managing diabetes, renal disease and cardiovascular conditions, aligning care with broader medical treatment goals
- Counselled patients and families on dietary behaviour change and disease self-management, adapting communication style for health literacy and cultural background
- Monitored patient progress against nutrition care plans and adjusted interventions in response to clinical changes, supporting earlier identification of nutritional decline
- Documented nutrition care using the Nutrition Care Process framework within electronic health records, maintaining accurate handover notes for continuity of care
- Collaborated with medical, nursing and allied health staff in case conferences to coordinate integrated care plans for patients with complex needs
Education
Bachelor degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or Master of Dietetics (for graduate-entry pathways) from a Dietitians Australia accredited program, followed by registration as an Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) through Dietitians Australia.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD)
- Dietitians Australia
- Nutrition Care Process
- Malnutrition Screening Tool (MST)
- Subjective Global Assessment (SGA)
- Clinical dietetics
- Enteral and parenteral nutrition
- Medicare Chronic Disease Management Plan
- NDIS nutrition support
- Telehealth consultation
- AUSNUT/NUTTAB food composition data
- Electronic medical records (e.g., iEMR, Cerner)
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.