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Review score
95
Evidence
100%
Words
270

Scored by the same rules the Studio uses. How scoring works

Why it works

  • One page in all six layouts270 words, so switching designs never pushes it to a second page.
  • 4 of 9 bullets name a resultThe rest show the scale of the work, which a recruiter reads as proof too. Counted by the same Review the Studio runs.
  • Headings an ATS already knowsSummary, Experience, Education, Certifications, Skills, in that order.
  • The credential has its own lineCertificate in Recruitment Practice (CertRP), each with issuer and year.
  • Reads back as plain textOne column with no tables or icons. The ATS text tab shows what a parser gets.
What a recruiter sees
Leah Okafor
Senior Recruiter
leah.okafor@example.com · +44 7700 900283 · Manchester, UK · linkedin.com/in/leahokafor
SUMMARY

Recruiter with seven years hiring engineering, sales and operations staff for a robotics scale-up and a recruitment agency. Runs full-cycle hiring from intake to offer and keeps hiring managers on a weekly scorecard.

EXPERIENCE
Senior Recruiter
2022 – Present
Kestrel Robotics · Manchester, UK
  • Run full-cycle recruitment for 25 to 30 open engineering and operations roles at a time, making 64 hires last year.
  • Lead intake meetings with 14 hiring managers to agree scorecards and interview stages, cutting average time to hire from 52 to 34 days.
  • Source passive candidates on LinkedIn Recruiter with Boolean searches; sourced hires rose from 20% to 45% of the total.
  • Moved hiring from spreadsheets to Greenhouse and trained 30 interviewers, raising offer acceptance from 78% to 90%.
Recruitment Consultant
2019 – 2022
Harper Ross Recruitment · Manchester, UK
  • Placed 110 permanent sales and customer service candidates with 18 client companies, billing £640K in fees over three years.
  • Screened about 60 CVs and ran 15 phone screens a week, logging every candidate in Bullhorn.
  • Negotiated salary and notice terms on 40 offers a year, with 1 in 20 dropping out before the start date.
Recruitment Coordinator
2017 – 2019
Pennine Care Homes · Leeds, UK
  • Scheduled 900 interviews a year across 12 care homes and ran right-to-work checks for every new starter.
  • Rewrote 150 job adverts for Indeed and Totaljobs, cutting cost per hire by 22% in a year.
EDUCATION
BA (Hons) Psychology
2014 – 2017
University of Manchester · Manchester, UK
CERTIFICATIONS
Certificate in Recruitment Practice (CertRP), REC
2020
SKILLS
Sourcing: LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, talent pools, referrals, job adverts
Hiring Process: intake meetings, phone screens, structured interviews, offer negotiation, right-to-work checks
Systems: Greenhouse, Bullhorn, Workable, Indeed, Excel
Layout

A centred serif name, an italic title and headings between thin rules. Switching layouts never changes the words.

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Recruiters read resumes all day, so a vague one of their own stands out for the wrong reason. A head of talent wants your desk: which roles, how many open at once, how many hires, where candidates came from, and what happened to time to hire and offer acceptance. This template shows that desk the way you'd want a candidate to show theirs.

Recruiter resume summary example

Target roleSenior Recruiter
SummaryRecruiter with seven years hiring engineering, sales and operations staff for a robotics scale-up and a recruitment agency. Runs full-cycle hiring from intake to offer and keeps hiring managers on a weekly scorecard.
1 of this role's keywords is in the summary
  • hiring managers

The candidate is fictional, so swap in your own numbers. Stuck? The resume summary generator drafts one from your title and results.

Why most recruiters don't get the call

Skills and keywords for a recruiter resume

Applicant tracking systems match on literal strings. Spell each term the way the job posting spells it, and group related skills so people and parsers can both follow it.

Recruitment

  • full-cycle recruitment
  • talent acquisition
  • requisitions
  • hiring managers
  • intake meetings
  • job descriptions

Sourcing & screening

  • sourcing
  • LinkedIn Recruiter
  • Boolean search
  • passive candidates
  • phone screens
  • CV screening
  • referrals

Process & metrics

  • structured interviews
  • offer negotiation
  • time to hire
  • offer acceptance rate
  • cost per hire
  • candidate experience

Systems

  • Greenhouse
  • Lever
  • Workable
  • Bullhorn
  • iCIMS
  • Indeed
  • Excel

Have the real job posting? Paste it into the keyword scanner to see the skills it asks for most, and which ones your resume is missing.

Why each choice was made

  1. Why hires and open roles share a line

    Load and output together (30 open roles, 64 hires a year) show the desk at a glance. Either number alone leaves the reader guessing.

  2. Why the agency job keeps its billings

    Agency recruiting is a sales job too. Placements and fees billed are the numbers in-house teams also respect when they hire from agencies.

  3. Why this reads as a recruiter, not an HR manager

    There is no employee relations, payroll or policy work here on purpose. A recruiter resume that drifts into HR generalist duties gets screened for the wrong job.

Recruiter resume questions

See all ATS-friendly resume templates, check your file with the free ATS resume checker, or read how each ATS reads resumes.

What skills should I put on a recruiter resume?

The skills the job posting names, spelled the way it spells them. For a recruiter that often includes full-cycle recruitment, talent acquisition, sourcing, LinkedIn Recruiter, structured interviews and offer negotiation. Show each one in a bullet with a result, then list the core ones again in a short skills section.

How do I write a recruiter resume summary?

Keep it to two or three sentences: your years of experience and where, the scale of your work, and one result with a number. Leave out words a recruiter cannot check, like hardworking or passionate. The example summary on this page shows the pattern.

Is this recruiter resume template free?

Yes. Open it in the Studio, replace the example with your own work and download it as a PDF in a free design (Clean, Signal, Editorial and Minimal). Word files and the other designs come with ATSPrep Pro. There is no watermark; downloading needs a free account.

Is this recruiter resume template ATS friendly?

Yes. It is one column of real text with standard section headings, and no tables, text boxes or text inside images, so parsers read it in order. Run your finished file through the free ATS resume checker to see the text it gives back.

Keep the pattern. Tell your story.

The Studio opens with this recruiter example loaded. Edit any bullet and the Review score updates as you type. Editing needs no account; downloading needs a free one.

  1. Keep the hierarchy. Same section order, plain-text contact details.
  2. Replace every claim. Your scope, your numbers, your tools. Never borrowed achievements.
  3. Run the Review again. Watch the score respond to the evidence in your version.
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What each system will do to this file.

What each applicant tracking system accepts, read from the vendor's own documentation.