Tradie resume template
The Best Resume Template for Tradies
The Classic template works for trades: black-and-white, single column, prints cleanly, and reads on a phone in the site shed. Ticket and licence lines sit under the summary where a site manager expects them, and bullets stay short and scannable.
How the classic template is structured for a tradie
The built resume leads with a Licences & Tickets section — White Card, trade qualification, HRW classes with expiry dates — exactly where a site manager expects them.
Work history is grouped by project type, commercial, residential, or civil, with one punchy sentence per bullet carrying the task and the scale. Machinery and tools follow, then a short safety record line.
Customise the structure to the work you are chasing. Construction sites want White Card, HRW classes, and project types up front; workshops and maintenance roles want diagnostics, servicing intervals, and customer interaction. If you have run jobs or led apprentices, say so — leading hand experience is the step to supervisor. Keep the ticket list exhaustive but the prose lean: one page of scannable facts beats two pages of narrative every time on site.
Layout advice for tradies
A Licences & Tickets section first, then work history grouped by project type — commercial, residential, civil.
One punchy sentence per bullet; lead with the task, close with the scale.
ATS notes for tradie applications
Agencies parse resumes into databases — keep ticket names in plain text, never in graphics.
Use both the ticket name and the common abbreviation, for example "High Risk Work Licence (EWP)".
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