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Salon Manager resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what salon managers 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 salon managers should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Salon Manager with a hairdressing trade background and several years running a busy salon floor. Combines hands-on service knowledge with rostering, stock control and team leadership to keep bookings full and margins healthy. Known for building a steady client base and a calm, compliant workplace.
Key skills
- Hair and beauty services
- Rostering and venue operations
- Operations management
- Inventory management
- Selling and negotiation
- Timely
- Phorest
- Shortcuts
- Xero
- Square
- Customer service
- People leadership
- Attention to detail
- Work health and safety compliance
- Hygiene and infection control
Experience: example bullet points
- Roster stylists and beauty therapists across a seven-day salon, matching bookings to staff availability and cutting unrostered gaps.
- Manage stock for professional colour, retail hair and beauty lines, working with suppliers to reduce overordering on slow-moving products.
- Set service prices and reconcile daily takings and till floats, balancing the till at close and flagging discrepancies early.
- Recruit, train and appraise a team of stylists and therapists, running regular one-on-ones and skills sessions.
- Enforce hygiene, infection control and WHS standards, keeping the salon audit-ready and incident-free across [timeframe].
- Introduced Timely and Xero to streamline bookings and payroll, cutting admin time from a full day to a few hours each week.
Education
Certificate III in Hairdressing or Beauty Therapy, with a Certificate IV or Diploma of Salon Management common for managers. Some enter with a business or retail qualification and several years of salon floor experience.
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.
- Work Health and Safety (WHS)
- infection control
- hygiene standards
- Fair Work
- rostering
- point of sale
- Xero
- Timely
- Phorest
- Shortcuts
- Square
- salon management
- hairdressing
- beauty therapy
- Certificate III in Hairdressing
- Certificate IV in Salon Management
- Diploma of Salon Management
- retail operations
- inventory control
- team leadership
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.