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Professional Shooter resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what professional shooters 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 professional shooters should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Licensed professional shooter with experience in vertebrate pest control across agricultural and conservation land. Skilled in humane dispatch, firearms maintenance, and field reporting. Committed to safety, animal welfare, and protecting both farm productivity and native biodiversity.
Key skills
- Field inspection and pest activity testing
- Environmental assessment for culling operations
- Animal handling and humane dispatch
- GPS mapping software (Avenza, Gaia, or similar)
- Ballistic calculator apps
- Night vision and thermal equipment
- Trail camera setup and analysis
- Firearms maintenance and cleaning kits
- Safety and compliance with firearms regulations
- Physical stamina for remote fieldwork
- Attention to detail in cull reporting
- Written communication for client reports
Experience: example bullet points
- Surveyed rural properties using trail cameras and GPS mapping to identify feral pig, fox, and rabbit activity, enabling targeted culling that reduced crop damage across a 2,000-hectare farm.
- Planned and coordinated night culling operations, humanely dispatching over 150 feral goats in a six-month period while maintaining accurate daily records for land managers.
- Maintained firearms, night vision scopes, and thermal equipment in safe working order, ensuring zero operational downtime during peak pest control seasons.
- Complied with state firearms regulations and animal welfare codes, passing all audits without incident and contributing to a safe workplace culture.
- Trained two junior shooters in safe firearm handling and humane dispatch techniques, improving team efficiency and safety awareness.
- Produced detailed cull reports for private landholders and conservation agencies, including GPS coordinates, species counts, and recommendations for follow-up control.
Education
Year 12 or equivalent, plus a Certificate III in Pest Management or a recognised firearms safety course. A current state firearms licence and accreditation in humane vertebrate pest control are typical entry requirements.
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.
- Firearms licence
- Category A/B/C/D
- Pest animal control
- Vertebrate pest control
- Animal welfare code
- State agriculture department
- Local Land Services
- National Parks and Wildlife Service
- Humane dispatch
- Trail cameras
- GPS mapping
- Ballistic calculator
- Night vision
- Firearms maintenance
- Culling operations
- Feral animal management
- Biosecurity
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.