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Respiratory and Sleep Scientist resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what respiratory and sleep scientists 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 respiratory and sleep scientists should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Respiratory and Sleep Scientist with clinical experience across hospital lung function laboratories and private sleep clinics. Performs spirometry, lung volume and diffusion testing and overnight polysomnography, then stages and scores studies and prepares reports that respiratory and sleep physicians can act on. Calm with anxious patients, precise with equipment, and careful about the documentation that sits behind every test.
Key skills
- Spirometry and full lung function testing
- Overnight polysomnography and patient monitoring
- Body plethysmography and lung volume measurement
- CPAP titration and therapy review
- Sleep staging and scoring using RemLogic and Alice
- Compumedics and Nox Medical diagnostic systems
- Spirometer calibration and troubleshooting (Vyaire, MGC Diagnostics)
- Patient coaching through breathing manoeuvres
- Infection control and equipment hygiene
- Data analysis and diagnostic report preparation
- Attention to detail
- Written communication with referring clinicians
Experience: example bullet points
- Performed spirometry, lung volumes and diffusing capacity testing across a busy outpatient lung function laboratory, tightening pre-test checks so fewer patients needed to return for a repeat appointment.
- Conducted overnight diagnostic sleep studies, monitoring patients and equipment through the night and escalating significant desaturations or cardiac events to the on-call physician.
- Calibrated, cleaned and troubleshot polysomnography and spirometry equipment, cutting same-night study failures and keeping the laboratory compliant with infection control requirements.
- Scored and analysed overnight traces using RemLogic and Alice, preparing clear summary reports and staging data for respiratory and sleep physicians.
- Coached anxious and paediatric patients through breathing manoeuvres, lifting the number of technically acceptable tests achieved on the first attempt.
- Trained new laboratory staff and students in electrode and sensor application, spirometry technique and safe overnight monitoring practice.
Education
Bachelor degree in science or applied science with a physiology focus, followed by supervised clinical training in an accredited respiratory and sleep laboratory. Postgraduate study in respiratory science or sleep technology is common, and diploma-qualified staff can enter through a trainee scientist pathway.
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.
- ANZSRS
- Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ)
- spirometry
- polysomnography
- PSG
- CPAP titration
- multiple sleep latency test (MSLT)
- lung function laboratory
- sleep staging
- body plethysmography
- respiratory function testing
- infection control
- National Police Check
- Working with Children Check
- accredited sleep laboratory
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.