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Horse Breeder resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what horse breeders 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 horse breeders should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Horse Breeder with hands-on experience across broodmare care, foaling and young stock preparation. Combines practical husbandry with record keeping and pasture management to produce sound, well-bred horses for racing and equestrian markets. Works independently through foaling season and collaborates with veterinarians, agistment clients and buyers through the sales cycle.
Key skills
- Animal care and handling
- Broodmare management and foaling
- Weaning and young horse conditioning
- Pasture and feed program management
- Breeding records and registrations
- Inventory management
- Plant and equipment operation
- Selling and negotiation
- Regulatory compliance
- HorseBiz
- Ardex
- StableMate
- Racing Australia Stud Book
- Microsoft Excel
Experience: example bullet points
- Managed daily care for a herd of broodmares through pregnancy, foaling and weaning, providing after-hours assistance during foaling and escalating complications to the attending veterinarian.
- Prepared young horses for sale and breaking in, handling them daily to build manners and condition ahead of auction.
- Maintained breeding records, service certificates and registrations in HorseBiz and the Racing Australia Stud Book, keeping documentation audit ready.
- Rotated pastures and set feed programs in consultation with an equine nutritionist, reducing the need for supplementary feeding across the season.
- Operated tractors, feeders and horse floats for routine farm work, and coordinated vet visits and farrier schedules across the herd.
- Negotiated the private sale of young stock to repeat buyers, managing enquiries and inspections through to transfer of ownership.
Education
Certificate III or IV in Agriculture (Horse Breeding) or a Diploma of Agriculture, with many breeders entering through hands-on stud work and on-the-job training; some complete a Bachelor of Equine Science.
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.
- Racing Australia
- Australian Stud Book
- Thoroughbred Breeders Australia
- broodmare
- foaling
- weaning
- yearling preparation
- agistment
- biosecurity
- Work Health and Safety
- equine veterinarian
- pasture management
- horse handling
- HorseBiz
- Ardex
- StableMate
- Certificate III in Agriculture (Horse Breeding)
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.