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Drycleaner resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what drycleaners 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 drycleaners should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Drycleaner with hands-on experience across the sorting bench, the spotting table and the finishing end of a retail dry cleaning counter. Comfortable operating solvent based cleaning machines and solvent recovery equipment, and confident pre-treating and hand spotting delicate and business garments. Used to working to a daily deadline where a missed tag or a scorched collar is immediately visible to the customer.
Key skills
- Stain identification and hand spotting
- Solvent dry cleaning machine operation
- Solvent recovery and still maintenance checks
- Steam and vacuum pressing and garment finishing
- Care label and fabric interpretation
- Barcode tagging and garment tracking
- SPOT Business Systems point of sale
- SMRT Systems
- Xero for consumables and stock
- Inventory management
- Workplace health and safety and solvent handling
- Customer service at the counter
- Time and deadline management
Experience: example bullet points
- Sorted incoming garments by fabric, colour and care label instructions, running separate loads for whites, darks and delicate items to avoid colour transfer and re-cleaning
- Pre-treated and spot-cleaned stains by hand before solvent cleaning, working through coffee, oil, ink and protein stains with the correct agent rather than defaulting to a re-clean
- Operated dry cleaning machines and solvent recovery equipment, checking solvent condition and still function at the start of each shift so breakdowns were picked up before the day's loads went through
- Pressed and finished suits, dresses and shirts on steam and vacuum equipment, bringing regular business customers from a next day turnaround to same day collection
- Inspected items for pre-existing damage and tagged faults on receipt so the customer was told before cleaning rather than at collection
- Applied barcode tags to every item and scanned them through the point of sale, so garments were located on the rack at collection without searching
- Maintained consumables and chemical stock levels in Xero and the point of sale, raising reorders before the spotting bench ran out
- Handled counter queries about damaged buttons, missing belts and stains that did not lift, explaining what could and could not be done and agreeing a remedy on the spot
Education
No formal qualification is required for entry; most drycleaners train on the job, and the common credential for those who formalise it is a Certificate III in Dry Cleaning Operations (or a Certificate II in Laundry Operations for commercial laundry work).
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.
- dry cleaning
- dry cleaner
- spot cleaning
- stain removal
- pre-treatment
- garment finishing
- pressing
- perchloroethylene
- hydrocarbon solvent
- solvent recovery
- care label
- safety data sheet
- workplace health and safety
- WHS
- SPOT Business Systems
- SMRT Systems
- barcode tagging
- Certificate III in Dry Cleaning Operations
- Drycleaning Institute of Australia
- laundry attendant
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.