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Administrator resume examples for 2025

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Updated March 12, 2025
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How to write an administrator resume

Craft a resume summary statement

Put a resume summary on the top of your resume to highlight your accomplishments. A resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to write a strong, impressive resume summary:

Step 1: Start with your current job title, or the one you aspire to. Are you a passionate manager? A skilled analyst? It's a good starting point.

Step 2: Next put your years of experience in administrator-related roles.

Step 3: Now is the time to put your biggest accomplishment or something you are professionally proud of.

Step 4: Read over what you have written. It should be 2-4 sentences. Your goal is to summarize your experience, not recite your resume.

These four steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some administrator interviews.

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List the right project manager skills

Use your Skills section to show you have the knowledge and technical ability to do the job. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:

  1. You often need to include the exact keywords from the job description in your resume. Look at the job listing and consider which of the listed skills you have experience with, along with related skills.
  2. Include as many relevant hard skills and soft skills as possible from the listing.
  3. Use the most up to date and accurate terms. Don't forget to be specific.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some administrator interviews.

Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on an administrator resume:

  • Customer Service
  • Data Entry
  • Troubleshoot
  • Payroll
  • Financial Reports
  • Oversight
  • Linux
  • Human Resources
  • PowerPoint
  • Patient Care
  • Administrative Functions
  • Windows Server
  • Bed Facility
  • SQL Server
  • Unix
  • SCCM
  • SharePoint
  • Administrative Tasks
  • Office Equipment
  • Background Checks
  • Federal Regulations
  • Financial Management
  • Medicaid
  • QA
  • CMS
  • HIPAA
  • HTML
  • VMware
  • LDAP
  • Jenkins

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How to structure your work experience

Your employment history is arguably one of the most important parts of your resume. It shows you have experience and foundation in your field to successfully master the administrator position. Here is how to most effectively structure your work experience:

  1. List your most recent experience first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order. Employers care about your most recent experience the most.
  2. Start with your job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
  3. Include only recent, relevant jobs.

How to write administrator experience bullet points

Your resume is your chance to show your biggest accomplishments. Don't just list your job responsibilities, instead take the opportunity to show why you're really good at what you do. Here is how you do that:

  • Start with strong action verbs like managed, spearheaded, created, etc. Your goal is to show what you did and verbs will help demonstrate your contributions.
  • Use numbers to quantify your achievements. Did you save time with a new report? Increase revenue? How large was the team you managed?
  • Keep it concise. You're highlighting your achievements. Consider if all details you are sharing are relevant, or can be written more efficiently.

Here are effective examples from administrator resumes:

Work History Example #1

Personnel Administrator

Nordstrom

  • Coordinated catering, A/V, Powerpoint presentations, and day-of logistics.
  • Maintained associate schedules and store hours, finalized schedules and payroll.
  • Modified Patrol Knowledge Modules to send emails or run scripts as recovery actions.
  • Created Windows formatted database for maintenance of all records in order to maximize productivity.
  • Decommissioned around 300 Red Hat Linux servers.

Work History Example #2

Office Clerk (Part-Time)

Coldwell Banker Florida

  • Assisted customers, coworkers and supervisors with information on records and procedures related to Clerk's Office.
  • Maintained and updated training database.
  • Entered data for the Collections, Probate, and Final Bill Database.
  • Adhered to department sanitation and QA standards by cleaning and sanitizing all work surfaces, utensils and equipment.
  • Prepared payroll for 5 drivers.

Work History Example #3

Vmware Administrator

Mississippi Department of Education

  • Prepared HP LTO Ultrium backup tapes to be sent offsite each week.
  • Managed Symantec Ghost computer systems images.
  • Maintained Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Thin Client computer and laptops.
  • Managed Canon, Xerox, Ricoh and Toshiba copiers.
  • Worked as help desk specialist, troubleshooting end user equipment and conducting user training for acceptable use policies.

Work History Example #4

Security Systems Administrator

HP

  • Upgraded Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 using Live Upgrade.
  • Used Python, AngularJS and JQuery to create dynamic web pages which automatically refresh based on events.
  • Provisioned LUNS, hosts, and host sets as needed.
  • Tested iOS upgrades and other possible mobility solutions within Airwatch and Good MDM.
  • Created Virtual Packages using Microsoft App-V Sequencer 4.6.

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Add an education section to your resume

Employers are looking for a few things when looking at the Education section of your resume:
  • The highest degree you have achieved.
  • TWhere you attended school, and the dates (Although if you graduated some time ago, leave the date off to avoid ageism)
  • TField of study
  • TAny honors, relevant coursework, achievements, or pertinent activities

Here are some examples of good education entries from administrator resumes:

Bachelor's Degree In Business

DeVry University, Oakbrook Terrace, IL

2003 - 2006

Highlight your administrator certifications on your resume

If you have any additional certifications or education-like achievements, add them to the education section.

Include the full name of the certification, along with the name of the issuing organization and date of obtainment.

If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your administrator resume:

  1. Certified Professional - Human Resource (IPMA-CP)
  2. Certified Medical Administrative Assistant (CMAA)
  3. Certified Manager Certification (CM)
  4. Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (NHA)
  5. Certified Medical Office Manager (CMOM)
  6. Project Management Professional (PMP)
  7. Certified Healthcare Protection Administrator (CHPA)
  8. HIPAA Professional (HIPAAP)
  9. Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP)
  10. Medication Aide Certification (MACE)