Behavioral specialist resume examples for 2025
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How to write a behavioral specialist resume
Craft a resume summary statement
A well-written resume summary is basically an elevator pitch. You are summing up your skills and experience in a few sentences to wow recruiters, hiring managers, and decision makers into giving you an interview. Here are some tips to putting your best foot first with your resume summary:
Step 1: Start with your professional title, or the one you aspire to.
Step 2: Detail your years of experience in behavioral specialist-related roles and your industry experience.
Step 3: What are your biggest professional wins? Here is your opportunity to highlight your strongest accomplishments by placing them at the start of your resume.
Step 4: Don't forget, your goal is to summarize your experience. Keep it short and sweet, so it's easy for recruiters to quickly understand why you're a great hire.
These four steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some behavioral specialist interviews.Hi, I'm Zippi, your job search robot. Let me write a first draft of your summary statement.
List the right project manager skills
Your Skills section is an easy way to let recruiters know you have the skills to do the job. Just as importantly, it can help your resume not get filtered out by hiring software. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:
- Look at the job listing and skills listed. You need to include the exact keywords from the job description to get your resume in front of an actual human. Do you have those skills? Fantastic! Be sure to list them.
- Include as many relevant hard or technical behavioral specialist skills as possible for each job you apply to.
- Be specific with the skills you have and be sure you are using the most up to date and accurate terms.
Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a behavioral specialist resume:
- Mental Health
- Autism
- Applied Behavior Analysis
- Crisis Intervention
- Rehabilitation
- Social Work
- ABA
- Behavior Analysis
- Patients
- Community Resources
- Developmental Disabilities
- Data Collection
- Behavior Management
- Intervention Techniques
- Family Therapy
- Compassion
- Foster Care
- Clinical Supervision
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Substance Abuse
- CPR
- Mental Illness
- BSC
- IEP
- Behavior Issues
- Eating Disorders
- Behavioral Data
- Functional Behavior Assessments
- Intellectual Disabilities
- Group Therapy
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How to structure your work experience
Next you should include your work experience. Structure your work experience section by listing your most recent experience first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order.
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.
Include only recent, relevant jobs. Avoid including work experience over 20 years to avoid ageism.
Beneath each job, you should have bullet points to emphasize why you're the perfect fit for the behavioral specialist.
How to write behavioral specialist experience bullet points
Effective job bullet points do more than just describe your job duties. Instead, they should be specific and measurable accomplishments. Here are some strategies to mastering job bullet points:
- Use strong action verbs like Led, Built, or Optimized.
- Follow up with numbers when possible to support your results. How much did performance improve? How much revenue did you drive?
- Wrap it up by explaining the actions you took to achieve the result and how you made an impact.
Here are effective examples from behavioral specialist resumes:
Work history example #1
Behavioral Specialist
Birth and Baby
- Trained in the use of ABA, Discrete Trial, and PECS.
- Maintained communication with Behavioral Specialist Consultant (BSC) regarding needs of child/family .
- Maintained communication between BSC, families, and other team members
- Recorded data during every session as indicated by the BSC.
- Communicated with parents through a daily communication log.
Work history example #2
Child Development Specialist
Alvis Materials
- Managed the performance review process for salaried employees in the region, including communications and the calibrationprocess.
- Designed project database, increasing communication and efficiency among an international operations and sales team.
- Designed and implemented Kanban system for lab supply management, improving communication between staff and optimizing use of existing supplies.
- Enabled carrier tracking information to be readily available to users by establishing AS2 communications with individual carriers and with third-party VAN.
- Worked with marketing communications team to establish project guidelines and marketing campaigns.
Work history example #3
Learning Support Teacher
New York City Regional Center
- Received training and real world experience dealing with autistic, hearing-impaired and emotionally disabled populations from Kindergarten- 8th grade.
- Created diverse literacy-oriented centers to provide a high level of reinforcement and enrichment.
- Planned and executed lessons in literacy.
- Addressed language barriers for ESL students.
- Planned, modified, and taught lessons for ESL students, and students with disabilities on all curriculum topics.
Work history example #4
Behavioral Specialist
Good Neighbor Care
- Monitored clients' progress and well-being and assisted case management team in evaluating the effectiveness of planned counseling and support.
- Provided in-home case management services to high-risk families.
- Implemented Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) programs with Autism Spectrum Disorders and/or other special needs under direction of the Supervisor.
- Enhanced member engagement and commitment to self-identified goals through therapeutic communication techniques such as Motivational Interviewing and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
- Updated IEP goals and provided quarterly reports on progress.
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Add an education section to your resume
The education section should display your highest degree first.
Place your education section appropriately on your resume. If you graduated over 5 years ago, this section should be at the bottom of your resume. If you just graduated and lack relevant work experience, the education section should go to the top.
If you have a bachelor's or master's degree, do not list your high school education. If your graduation year is more than 15-20 years ago, it's better not to include dates in this section.
Here are some examples of good education entries from behavioral specialist resumes:
Master's Degree in sociology
University of California - Davis, Davis, CA
2012 - 2013
Some College Courses in psychology
California State University - San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA
2010 - 2010
Highlight your behavioral specialist certifications on your resume
If you have any additional certifications, add them to the certification 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 behavioral specialist resume:
- Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)
- Correctional Behavioral Health Certification - Behavioral Specialty (CBHC-BS)
- Registered Behavior Technician (RBT)
- Board Certified Specialist in School Psychology
- Certification in Forensic Social Work (CFSW)
- Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst (BCaBA)
- Certified Criminal Justice Specialist (CCJS)
- Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES)
- Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS)
- Certified Healthcare Safety Professional - Fire Safety Management (CHSP-FSM)