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Harness Racing Driver resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what harness racing drivers 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 harness racing drivers should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Licensed harness racing driver with experience competing at club and metropolitan meetings. Skilled in race tactics, pace management and gear compliance, with a strong focus on horse welfare and racing integrity. Works well under pressure and maintains the physical stamina required for race day.
Key skills
- Race driving and pace management
- Harness and sulky maintenance
- Form analysis and race tactics
- Horse handling and pre-race preparation
- Sulky operation
- Racing harness fitting and checks
- Whip use within Australian rules
- Race timing systems
- Form guide software
- Safety and integrity compliance
- Time and deadline management
- Problem solving under pressure
Experience: example bullet points
- Drove horses in over 150 competitive harness races, adapting tactics to track conditions and field speed to achieve consistent placings.
- Studied form guides and video replays before each meeting to plan pace and positioning, leading to improved finishing results on tight tracks.
- Maintained sulkies, harnesses and whips to steward standards, passing all gear inspections without penalty.
- Handled horses pre-race, including warming up and calming nervous types, to ensure safe and fair starts.
- Complied with racing integrity and safety rules, including whip regulations and driving conduct, across all race meetings.
Education
Certificate III or IV in Racing (Harness Racing) or Diploma of Racing (Harness Racing), plus a current driver's licence issued by the relevant state harness racing authority.
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.
- Harness Racing Australia
- state harness racing authority
- stewards
- race meeting
- sulky
- racing harness
- whip rules
- form guide
- trackwork
- barrier draw
- mobile start
- standing start
- race club
- licensing
- racing integrity
- horse welfare
- gear check
- Australian Harness Racing Rules
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.