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Create ResumeA good Australian resume template should make your value obvious within the first few seconds. It should be clean, easy to scan, tailored to the role, and structured around what recruiters and hiring managers actually look for: relevant experience, measurable achievements, clear job history, practical skills, and evidence that you can do the job. The mistake many candidates make is choosing a template that looks impressive but slows the reader down. In recruitment, pretty formatting does not save weak content. A clear resume with strong positioning nearly always beats a decorative one with vague responsibilities. Use the free Australian resume template below as a practical structure, then customise every section to the job you are applying for.
Copy and paste this template into Word or Google Docs. Keep the layout simple, use a readable font, and avoid graphics, text boxes, columns, icons, photos, tables, and heavy design elements unless you are applying for a role where visual presentation is genuinely part of the job.
Your Name
City, State
Phone Number
Email Address
LinkedIn URL
Portfolio or Website URL, if relevant
Write three to five lines that explain your professional positioning, strongest relevant experience, and the type of value you bring to the employer.
Avoid generic phrases like “hardworking professional seeking an opportunity”. That tells me nothing. Your summary should answer one simple recruiter question: why should this person keep reading?
Template
[Job title or professional identity] with experience in [industry, function, or specialisation]. Skilled in [relevant capability], [relevant capability], and [relevant capability], with a track record of [commercial, operational, customer, technical, or team impact]. Known for [strength that matters in the role], [strength that matters in the role], and delivering [specific outcome].
Skill directly relevant to the job
The best Australian resume template is not the one with the most design. It is the one that helps a recruiter understand your fit quickly, accurately, and without having to dig for basic information.
When I screen resumes, I am not reading from top to bottom like a novel. I am scanning for evidence. I am looking for job titles, industry match, scope, achievements, skills, stability, progression, location, salary alignment, working rights where relevant, and whether the candidate seems like a sensible match for the role.
That is why this template works. It puts the most decision making information where recruiters expect to find it. It gives structure without making your resume look like a design project. It also avoids the common formatting traps that can make resumes harder to read in applicant tracking systems.
A strong Australian resume template should do five things well:
Make your contact details easy to find
Show your professional fit immediately
Highlight relevant skills without keyword stuffing
Present your work history in reverse chronological order
Prove your impact through specific achievements
Skill directly relevant to the job
Skill directly relevant to the job
System, tool, platform, or methodology
Industry knowledge or technical capability
Communication, stakeholder, leadership, or operational skill
Compliance, reporting, analysis, sales, service, project, or process skill
Another role specific capability
Job Title
Company Name, Location
Month Year to Month Year or Present
Write one or two lines explaining the scope of your role. Mention the size of the team, customer base, territory, portfolio, budget, systems, products, projects, or responsibilities if relevant.
Achieved [result] by [action taken], improving [metric, process, customer outcome, revenue, efficiency, compliance, quality, or delivery]
Managed [responsibility, project, portfolio, team, system, client group, or process] across [scope or context]
Improved [process, performance area, customer experience, reporting, workflow, or team outcome] by [specific action]
Collaborated with [stakeholders, teams, departments, vendors, customers, or leadership] to deliver [outcome]
Used [system, tool, method, or technical skill] to support [business outcome]
Recognised for [achievement, promotion, performance result, customer feedback, leadership contribution, or operational impact]
Job Title
Company Name, Location
Month Year to Month Year
Write one or two lines explaining the scope of your role.
Delivered [result] through [action]
Supported [team, client group, business function, project, or operation] with [responsibility]
Reduced, increased, improved, maintained, resolved, implemented, coordinated, analysed, led, trained, supported, or developed [specific thing]
Worked with [stakeholders, customers, suppliers, internal teams, or managers] to achieve [outcome]
Maintained accurate [records, reporting, compliance, documentation, systems, customer information, or project updates]
Qualification Name
Institution Name, Location
Year completed or expected completion year
Certification, licence, clearance, ticket, or professional membership
Certification, licence, clearance, ticket, or professional membership
Software, system, platform, tool, equipment, programming language, CRM, ERP, reporting tool, or industry system
Software, system, platform, tool, equipment, programming language, CRM, ERP, reporting tool, or industry system
Australian working rights, if relevant
Driver licence, if relevant
Availability, if relevant
Languages, if relevant
Volunteer experience, if relevant and useful
Notice what is not on that list: colourful sidebars, star ratings, profile photos, fancy icons, decorative initials, or skill bars. Those things may look nice on a screen, but they often add very little to the hiring decision. Sometimes they actively get in the way.
Candidates often imagine their resume being carefully read by a patient person with a coffee and a highlighter. Lovely image. Rarely true.
In real hiring, a recruiter may be working through dozens or hundreds of applications. The first review is often a fast relevance check. Not because recruiters do not care, but because hiring processes are built around shortlisting. The first question is usually not “is this person wonderful?” It is “does this person clearly match what the hiring manager asked for?”
That difference matters.
A recruiter is usually scanning for:
Current or recent job title
Relevant industry or transferable industry
Level of seniority
Key skills required in the job ad
Stability and career progression
Evidence of achievements
Location and practical availability
Working rights or licence requirements where relevant
Clear communication and professionalism
Hiring managers often read differently. They are more likely to ask:
Can this person solve the problem I am hiring for?
Have they worked in a similar environment?
Will they need heavy training?
Do their achievements sound real?
Do they understand the type of work we do?
Will they fit the pace, pressure, customers, systems, or team setup?
This is why your resume template must support both audiences. The recruiter needs clarity. The hiring manager needs confidence. Your resume should not make either of them work hard.
An Australian resume usually includes your contact details, professional summary, key skills, work experience, education, certifications, technical skills, and relevant additional information. It does not usually need a photo, date of birth, marital status, full street address, or personal details that have nothing to do with the role.
Keep this simple. Your name, city and state, phone number, email, LinkedIn, and portfolio link if relevant.
Do not include your full home address. “Melbourne, VIC” or “Brisbane, QLD” is enough for most applications. Employers need to know whether your location makes sense for the job, not your apartment number.
Use a professional email address. It does not need to be dramatic. First name and last name is perfect. A strange email address will not usually destroy your application, but it can create unnecessary doubt. And in hiring, unnecessary doubt is expensive.
Your professional summary should not be a personality paragraph. It should position you.
A weak summary says:
Weak Example
Motivated and hardworking professional with excellent communication skills seeking a challenging role where I can grow and contribute to a successful company.
This sounds pleasant, but it gives the recruiter no useful evidence.
A stronger summary says:
Good Example
Customer service team leader with seven years of experience across retail, contact centre, and complaints resolution environments. Skilled in coaching frontline teams, improving service workflows, managing escalations, and using CRM data to identify customer experience issues. Known for calm decision making, practical team support, and improving service consistency in high volume environments.
This gives me context. I can see level, function, environment, skills, and value.
Your skills section should reflect the job you want, not every skill you have collected since 2011.
This is where many resumes become messy. Candidates add communication, teamwork, problem solving, leadership, attention to detail, Microsoft Office, customer service, time management, and adaptability. None of those are wrong, but they are so common that they stop meaning much unless they are connected to the role.
Better skills are specific, relevant, and searchable.
For an administration role, useful skills might include:
Diary and inbox management
Document preparation
Customer enquiries
Records management
Supplier coordination
CRM and database updates
Purchase orders and invoicing support
Meeting coordination
For a project coordinator role, useful skills might include:
Project scheduling
Stakeholder coordination
Risk and issue tracking
Status reporting
Budget tracking
Vendor communication
Process documentation
Microsoft Project, Jira, Asana, or Monday.com
Specific skills help recruiters match you faster. Generic skills make them guess.
This is the most important section of your resume. Your work history carries the most weight because it shows what you have actually done.
Use reverse chronological order, starting with your most recent role. For each job, include your job title, company, location, dates, a short scope statement, and achievement focused bullet points.
Your bullet points should not read like a position description copied from HR. A position description tells me what the job was meant to do. Your resume should tell me what you actually did with it.
Weak Example
Responsible for managing customer enquiries and assisting with administrative tasks.
This is vague. It tells me the job function, but not the level of work, volume, quality, tools, or outcome.
Good Example
Managed 60 to 80 customer enquiries per day across phone and email, resolving billing, booking, and service issues while maintaining accurate CRM records and meeting daily response targets.
This is much stronger because it gives scope, responsibility, tools, and performance context.
Education should be clear and relevant. If you are early in your career, you may include more detail such as key subjects, projects, or placements. If you have several years of experience, keep education concise unless the qualification is essential for the role.
In Australia, employers usually care most about whether your qualification is relevant, completed, recognised, or required. They rarely need a long list of every subject unless you are applying for a graduate, academic, technical, or regulated role.
Include licences, tickets, professional registrations, police checks, working with children checks, white cards, first aid, cybersecurity certifications, project management certifications, accounting memberships, nursing registrations, trade licences, or other credentials if they matter for the role.
If a job ad lists a required licence and your resume does not show it clearly, many recruiters will assume you do not have it. They may not search your cover letter to find it. Put required credentials where they can be seen.
Technical skills are not only for IT candidates. They matter across administration, finance, marketing, customer service, logistics, healthcare, trades, education, sales, operations, and management.
Include systems that are genuinely relevant, such as:
Microsoft Excel
Xero
MYOB
SAP
Salesforce
HubSpot
Power BI
ServiceNow
Jira
MYOB Advanced
Do not exaggerate system knowledge. If you say advanced Excel, some hiring managers will expect pivot tables, formulas, reporting, and data cleaning. If you mean you can update a spreadsheet, say Microsoft Excel confidently, but do not oversell it. The interview will expose the difference very quickly.
A modern Australian resume does not need unnecessary personal information. It also does not need decorative formatting that makes the resume harder to scan.
Avoid including:
Photo, unless specifically requested or relevant for a performance based role
Date of birth
Marital status
Religion
Full home address
Nationality, unless working rights are directly relevant
Salary expectations, unless requested
References with full contact details
Long personal hobbies section
Skill bars or star ratings
Generic objective statement
Every job you have ever had if it is no longer relevant
The photo point is worth explaining. In some countries, a photo is normal. In Australia, it is usually unnecessary for most corporate, professional, operational, healthcare, education, trades, government, and business roles. It can also distract from the actual selection criteria. Let your experience do the work.
References should usually be listed as “available on request”. You do not need to hand over someone’s contact details at application stage unless the employer specifically asks. Good referees are valuable. Do not throw them into every online portal before anyone has even spoken to you.
The safest Australian resume format is a clean reverse chronological resume. This means your most recent role comes first, followed by earlier roles.
This format works because it matches how recruiters evaluate career history. We want to understand what you are doing now, what you did before, and whether your career path makes sense for the role.
A functional resume, where skills are listed before work history and job dates are minimised, can look tempting if you have gaps or a career change. But from a recruiter’s perspective, it often creates more questions than it answers. When work history is hard to follow, recruiters do not automatically think “creative format”. They often think “what is being hidden?”
That does not mean career gaps or changes are fatal. They are not. But they need to be handled clearly.
A strong Australian resume format usually follows this order:
Name and contact details
Professional summary
Key skills
Professional experience
Education
Certifications and licences
Technical skills
Additional relevant information
For most candidates, this is the cleanest and most recruiter friendly structure.
Most Australian resumes are best kept to two to three pages, depending on your level of experience. One page can work for students, graduates, early career candidates, or very simple applications. Senior professionals, managers, technical specialists, academics, healthcare professionals, and project based candidates may need more space.
The real issue is not page count. The real issue is relevance.
I have seen two page resumes that feel painfully long because every line is vague. I have also seen three page resumes that are easy to read because every section earns its place.
A practical guide:
Students and graduates: one to two pages
Early career candidates: one to two pages
Mid career professionals: two to three pages
Senior managers and specialists: three to four pages if justified
Academic, medical, research, or government CVs: may be longer depending on requirements
Do not shrink your font to fit an artificial page limit. A cramped resume is not more professional. It is just harder to read.
Also, do not include twenty years of detail for roles that no longer support your target position. Older roles can be summarised, especially if they are not closely related to the job you want now.
Tailoring your resume does not mean rewriting the whole thing every time. It means adjusting the emphasis so the employer can see the match quickly.
This is where candidates often overcomplicate it. They either send the same resume everywhere, which is too broad, or they spend hours rewriting everything, which is not sustainable.
Use this practical tailoring process.
Look at the job ad and ask: what is this employer really hiring?
Not just the title. The problem.
A “Customer Success Manager” job could actually be mostly account management. Another could be onboarding and product adoption. Another could be support escalation in a SaaS environment. Same title, different hiring logic.
Your summary should reflect the version of the role you are applying for.
Move the most relevant skills higher. Recruiters scan from top to bottom. Do not bury the important keywords.
If the job ad repeatedly mentions stakeholder management, reporting, compliance, and process improvement, those should appear clearly in your resume if you genuinely have them.
If the role is focused on process improvement, your bullet points should show process improvement. If it is focused on customer retention, show retention, account management, service recovery, or customer outcomes. If it is focused on leadership, show coaching, rostering, performance, conflict resolution, or team results.
The same experience can be positioned differently without being dishonest.
For example, a retail store manager applying for an operations coordinator role might shift from:
Weak Example
Managed daily store operations and supervised staff.
To:
Good Example
Coordinated daily store operations across rostering, stock control, supplier communication, compliance checks, and issue resolution, maintaining smooth trading during peak periods.
Same background. Better positioning.
Tailoring is not pretending. It is selecting the most relevant evidence.
Recruiters can usually tell when a resume has been inflated. The language becomes too big for the experience. A candidate who has “led strategic transformation across enterprise operations” but was actually helping update a spreadsheet is going to run into trouble in the interview. Hiring managers are allergic to that kind of theatre, and fair enough.
An ATS friendly resume is one that can be parsed correctly by applicant tracking systems and still read easily by humans. The mistake is thinking the ATS is the only audience. It is not. The system may process your resume, but people still make hiring decisions.
To keep this template ATS friendly:
Use standard headings such as Professional Experience, Education, Skills, and Certifications
Use clear job titles and dates
Avoid text boxes, complex tables, headers, footers, icons, and graphics
Save your resume as a Word document or PDF depending on the application instructions
Use keywords naturally from the job ad
Avoid hiding keywords or stuffing the resume with repeated phrases
Keep formatting clean and consistent
The best ATS strategy is not tricking the system. It is making your relevant experience easy to identify.
A blunt recruiter truth: if your resume needs tricks to look relevant, it is probably not positioned well enough. Focus on alignment, evidence, and clarity.
Your bullet points should show action, scope, and outcome. If they only list duties, they will look like every other resume.
A useful bullet point often includes:
What you did
How you did it
Who or what it affected
The result or value
You do not need numbers in every bullet point, but you do need substance.
Weak Example
Assisted with reports.
Good Example
Prepared weekly sales and inventory reports using Excel, helping managers identify stock gaps, monitor product performance, and plan replenishment more accurately.
Weak Example
Worked with stakeholders.
Good Example
Coordinated updates between operations, finance, and external suppliers to resolve invoice discrepancies and reduce delays in monthly payment processing.
Weak Example
Managed a team.
Good Example
Led a team of eight customer service staff, supporting rostering, coaching, escalation handling, and daily performance tracking in a high volume contact centre environment.
The good examples are stronger because they create a picture. A recruiter can understand the environment, the responsibility, and the value.
Most resume problems are not caused by lack of effort. They are caused by candidates focusing on the wrong thing.
A beautiful resume that is hard to read is not a strong resume. Hiring is not a graphic design competition unless you are applying for a graphic design role, and even then, the content still needs to work.
Recruiters appreciate clean formatting because it respects their time. If I need to hunt through icons, columns, and decorative blocks to find your job history, the design is not helping you.
Many summaries are full of positive words and zero positioning. “Dynamic professional with a passion for excellence” sounds polished but empty.
A strong summary should make your target role obvious. If I cannot tell what kind of job you are suited for after reading your summary, it is not doing its job.
Responsibilities show what you were hired to do. Achievements show how well you did it.
You do not need to sound like you personally saved the company every Tuesday. Just show evidence of contribution. Improved something. Managed something. Solved something. Delivered something. Supported something important. Reduced a problem. Increased efficiency. Helped customers. Kept operations running. Trained people. Built a process. Handled volume. Maintained compliance.
Practical achievements beat dramatic claims.
A resume trying to appeal to everyone often appeals strongly to no one.
This is especially common with candidates who are open to multiple roles. I understand the logic. But employers are not usually hiring “someone flexible who could do a bit of everything”. They are hiring for a specific problem, team, workload, and outcome.
If you are applying for different role types, create different resume versions.
Do not use strange formatting to hide dates. It usually makes recruiters more suspicious, not less.
If you had a gap, contract role, redundancy, relocation, study period, caring responsibility, health break, or career transition, handle it clearly and professionally. You do not need to overshare. You do need to avoid making the timeline look confusing.
AI can help you organise content, but unedited AI resume language is painfully obvious. It often produces inflated phrases, generic achievements, and sentences that sound impressive until you realise they say very little.
A good resume sounds specific. It sounds like a real person did real work in a real environment. That is what you are aiming for.
Here is a simple example using the template. This is not meant to be copied word for word. Use it to understand the level of detail and clarity you should aim for.
Amelia Carter
Melbourne, VIC
0400 000 000
linkedin.com/in/ameliacarter
Administration coordinator with six years of experience supporting operations, customer service, scheduling, supplier communication, and office administration across busy service based environments. Skilled in diary management, CRM updates, invoicing support, document preparation, and stakeholder coordination. Known for practical problem solving, calm communication, and keeping daily operations organised when priorities change quickly.
Office administration
Diary and inbox management
Customer enquiries
Supplier coordination
CRM and database management
Invoicing and purchase order support
Document preparation
Meeting coordination
Process improvement
Microsoft Office and Google Workspace
Administration Coordinator
Brightline Services, Melbourne, VIC
March 2021 to Present
Support daily administration and operations for a service team of 25 staff, coordinating customer enquiries, supplier communication, scheduling updates, reporting, and internal documentation.
Manage shared inbox and phone enquiries, responding to customer, supplier, and internal requests while maintaining accurate CRM records
Coordinate technician schedules, appointment changes, and service updates across a high volume weekly workload
Prepare invoices, purchase order requests, service documents, and internal reports for operations and finance teams
Improved the job tracking spreadsheet to reduce duplicate updates and make daily status reporting easier for managers
Liaise with suppliers to follow up quotes, delivery timeframes, invoice queries, and service documentation
Support onboarding administration for new starters, including system access requests, equipment coordination, and induction documents
Customer Service Administrator
Metro Home Solutions, Melbourne, VIC
January 2018 to February 2021
Provided customer service and administration support for a home maintenance business, handling bookings, customer updates, payments, and service records.
Managed 50 to 70 customer enquiries per day across phone and email, resolving booking changes, payment questions, and service updates
Maintained accurate customer records in the CRM, including job notes, appointment details, invoice information, and follow up actions
Coordinated communication between customers, contractors, and internal staff to support timely job completion
Assisted with weekly reporting on open jobs, overdue tasks, customer feedback, and contractor availability
Trained two new team members on booking procedures, customer communication standards, and CRM processes
Certificate IV in Business Administration
Melbourne Polytechnic
Completed 2017
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Outlook
Google Workspace
Salesforce
Xero
Canva
Full Australian working rights
Available with four weeks notice
References available on request
Before you submit your resume, check it like a recruiter would. Be honest. If the match is not obvious, fix the resume before applying.
Use this checklist:
Does the first half of page one clearly show the role you are suited for?
Is your most recent experience easy to understand?
Have you used the same language the employer uses for key skills and requirements?
Are your bullet points specific rather than duty based?
Have you included achievements, scope, systems, volume, or outcomes where possible?
Is your formatting clean and consistent?
Can someone understand your career history quickly?
Have you removed unnecessary personal information?
Have you checked spelling, dates, spacing, and job titles?
Does the resume feel tailored to this job, not just any job?
One more practical test: read the job ad, then read your resume. If the employer has to make a generous mental leap to connect the two, your resume is not tailored enough.
Written by Simar Malhi, a recruiter and headhunter with international recruitment experience. I write about CVs, job applications, hiring decisions, and the reality behind recruitment processes. My goal is to help candidates understand more honestly how employers, recruiters, and hiring managers actually select candidates.
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