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Construction Resume Tips:

 

Your resume is a reflect your experience as a builder. This can include job duties such as Construction Management, Proposal Development, On-Site Supervision, Finish Carpentry or Drywall skills depending on whether you are a Manager, Site Foreman or Laborer. Here are some tips to design a builder's resume.

Do not miss to include the summary of your core competencies, strengths and quantifiable accomplishments. Your resume must show how you worked towards reducing the cost of construction while creating a fine structure for the clients.

  

Construction Resume Template


Contact Information :

  1. Full name
  2. Campus and permanent addresses
  3. Telephone numbers
  4. Email address

Objective : An objective should be a short and specific statement that includes position, industry and/or relevant skills.

Summary :

A proven track record of completing difficult projects on schedule and on tight budgets. An ability to work in upstream locations with limited communications and scant logistical support. Excellent interpersonal skills, a professional attitude, and firm personality to manage projects independently or as a team member.

Education : List most recent degree first.

  1. Name of institution, city and state
  2. Degree, major and year awarded
  3. GPA (optional)

Skills : Use action-words, verbs, adverbs, adjectives in your descriptions and terms specific to the job in your builder resume.

Experience : List the most recent first.

  1. Job title
  2. Employer name and location (city and state)
  3. Dates of employment
  4. Active description of your responsibilities and achievements

Activities : Campus and community activities, memberships in professional organizations. Job seekers from the civil engineering field often write general statements that lack the use of numericals to describe important items like the size and value of projects or number of staff supervised. They also assume that anyone in the civil industry will know what they have done and the depth of their skills just by reading their job title. However, both are erroneous assumptions and can result in poor resume response.

For Example consider the following description of an essential experience.

Crew Lead

  • Supervised general labor, carpentry and drywall workers.
  • Worked with General Contractor to estimate projects and develop proposals.
  • Managed daily project completion and trades coordination.

And here is the more appropriate and efficient way to put your experience.

Construction Site Management

  • Anually, managed construction of residential and commercial building projects of value $20 million.
  • Supervised crews of up to 25 master carpenters, journeymen, drywall hangers, foundation and general labor personnel.
  • Estimated project costs, performed take-offs and developed project proposals working directly with the General Contractor.

Add Keywords : Use action-words, verbs, adverbs, adjectives in your descriptions and terms specific to your job in the resume. For example ASCE, Concrete Design, Preliminary Stress Analysis, Hydrology Trans Analysis etc. Do not use abbreviations or acronyms unless you define them.

Now lets have a look at the necessary information that will make your resume stand out. The following are some of the points you should consider while making a Construction professional's resume.

  • The major projects that you have worked.
  • Your financial responsibilities on each major project.
  • Design and purchasing responsibilities.
  • The detailed planning of all stages of construction, including workers, equipment and materials.
  • The construction phase, including site inspections and checking materials, measurements and workmanship.
  • Contact with buyers, planners, surveyors, supervisors / managers, other subcontractors and the client.
  • New techniques, procedures, practices and processes that you have introduced or developed.
  • Any contribution to reduction of cost, improvement in efficiency, or increase in revenue.
  • Any other achievements that have benefited your employers.