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Recruiter resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what recruiters 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 recruiters should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Recruiter with a track record of sourcing, screening and placing candidates across administrative, professional services and health care employers. Comfortable managing full-cycle recruitment from initial briefing through to offer negotiation and onboarding, with strong stakeholder management and a practical grip on ATS and reporting tools. Known for building genuine relationships with both hiring managers and candidates rather than treating placements as transactions.
Key skills
- Selling and negotiation
- Account and relationship management
- Stakeholder management
- Candidate sourcing and pipeline management
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- Applicant tracking systems (ATS)
- Greenhouse or Workable
- Excel and Tableau reporting
- Written communication
- Attention to detail
Experience: example bullet points
- Sourced candidates for a mix of permanent and contract roles using LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards and direct outreach, keeping a consistent pipeline of qualified applicants for repeat hiring managers
- Screened resumes and conducted initial phone and video interviews to shortlist candidates, reducing time hiring managers spent reviewing unsuitable applications
- Coordinated interview schedules between candidates and hiring managers across multiple business units, managing calendars and feedback loops through Microsoft Teams
- Negotiated salary packages and employment terms with selected candidates, balancing client budgets against market rates to close offers without losing preferred candidates
- Maintained recruitment databases and pipeline reports in an ATS, using Excel to track time-to-fill and source-of-hire data for monthly stakeholder updates
Education
No single mandatory qualification: roughly a third of recruiters hold a bachelor degree (commonly in human resources, business or psychology), while others enter through Certificate III/IV or Diploma-level business and recruitment courses, or move across from sales, admin or account management roles without a formal recruitment qualification.
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.
- Recruitment, Consulting and Staffing Association (RCSA)
- Fair Work Act
- National Employment Standards
- applicant tracking system (ATS)
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- SEEK
- talent pipeline
- time-to-fill
- candidate experience
- onboarding
- psychometric assessment
- salary benchmarking
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.