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Organisational Psychologist resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what organisational psychologists 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 organisational psychologists should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Organisational Psychologist with postgraduate training and general registration with the Psychology Board of Australia. I apply psychological research and assessment methods to workplace issues, including employee selection, leadership development and wellbeing programs. My work helps organisations make evidence-based decisions about their people.
Key skills
- Counselling and support work
- Data analysis
- Psychometric assessment and test validation
- Employee selection and assessment design
- Organisational change and restructuring advice
- Leadership development and coaching
- Workplace wellbeing assessment and intervention
- SHL
- Hogan Assessments
- SPSS
- Qualtrics
- Microsoft Power BI
- Stakeholder management
- Written communication
- Client relationships and advisory
Experience: example bullet points
- Designed and validated a selection assessment battery for a client's frontline hiring, cutting the shortlisting cycle from three weeks to five days and improving manager confidence in candidate fit.
- Facilitated leadership development workshops for a cohort of 25 emerging managers, then provided follow-up coaching that increased participation in individual development plans across the group.
- Conducted an organisation-wide wellbeing survey using Qualtrics, analysed results in SPSS and identified three priority areas that shaped the subsequent mental health action plan.
- Advised on a restructure of a 60-person division, using stakeholder interviews and change readiness data to phase the rollout and maintain operational continuity.
- Built a Power BI dashboard to track turnover and engagement metrics across business units, giving HR and executive leaders a single view for quarterly workforce planning.
Education
Postgraduate qualification in organisational psychology, typically a Master of Organisational Psychology or equivalent, plus general registration as a psychologist with the Psychology Board of Australia and eligibility for endorsement in organisational psychology.
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.
- AHPRA
- Psychology Board of Australia
- organisational psychology endorsement
- psychometric assessment
- SHL
- Hogan Assessments
- SPSS
- Qualtrics
- Microsoft Power BI
- employee selection
- workplace wellbeing
- change management
- leadership development
- organisational development
- Australian Psychological Society
- APS College of Organisational Psychologists
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.