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Project Manager resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what project managers 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 project managers should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Project manager with experience planning scope, schedule and budget across multi-stakeholder delivery teams. Comfortable running governance forums and steering committees, and known for surfacing risks early rather than letting them become issues. Works across construction, professional services or technology delivery depending on the program.
Key skills
- Project management
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Stakeholder management
- People leadership
- Time and deadline management
- Written communication
- MS Project
- Jira
- Asana
- Excel
Experience: example bullet points
- Planned scope, schedule and budget for a multi-workstream project, keeping delivery within the agreed budget envelope
- Coordinated a cross-functional team of internal staff and external vendors, resolving resourcing conflicts before they affected the critical path
- Maintained a risk and issues register, escalating high-impact items to the steering committee ahead of scheduled reviews
- Ran fortnightly governance forums, giving sponsors a clear view of progress against milestones and budget burn
- Rebuilt a slipping project schedule in MS Project, recovering lost time by re-sequencing dependent tasks
- Tracked delivery progress and reported variance to plan, reducing the number of surprises raised at steering committee
Education
Typically a bachelor degree in business, construction management or a related field, though diploma and Certificate IV holders also move into the role through project coordination experience; PMP, PRINCE2 or AIPM certification is common and often expected for larger programs.
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.
- PMP
- PRINCE2
- AIPM
- Agile
- Scrum
- RAID log
- WBS
- stakeholder register
- steering committee
- governance forum
- risk register
- MS Project
- Jira
- Asana
- benefits realisation
- change control
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.