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How to write a general supervisor resume
Craft a resume summary statement
Your 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 writing the most important 2-4 sentences of your resume:
Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.
Step 2: Include your years of experience in general supervisor-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.
Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.
Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.
These four steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some general supervisor interviews.Please upload your resume so Zippia’s job hunt AI can draft a summary statement for you.
List the right project manager skills
Your Skills section is a place to list all relevant skills and abilities. 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 general supervisor 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 general supervisor resume:
- Continuous Improvement
- Production Supervisors
- Oversight
- Corrective Action
- Safety Procedures
- OSHA
- Lean Manufacturing
- Professional Work
- HR
- Kaizen
- Center Management
- CLIA
- QA
- Preventive Maintenance
- Direct Reports
- General Ledger
- Chemistry
- Plant Operations
- Product Quality
- Payroll
- R
- Direct Supervision
- Sigma
- Journal Entries
- Production Schedules
- QC
- Proficiency Testing
- Balance Sheet
- SPC
- Inventory Control
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How to structure your work experience
Your work experience should be structured:
- With your most recent roles first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order.
- Job title, along with company name and location on the left.
- Put the corresponding dates of employment on the left side.
- Keep only relevant jobs on your work experience.
How to write general supervisor 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 great bullet points from general supervisor resumes:
Work history example #1
Manufacturing Supervisor
Bren-Tronics
- Graded and inspected food products according to USDA regulations and company standards.
- Worked closely with EHS and OSHA for a two year running ZERO recordable injury.
- Facilitated required training programs to employees (SHE, TPM, GMP, Loss tree analysis, etc).
- Maintained safety performance, AIB, OSHA, and FDA compliance.
- Managed warehouse, transportation, and administrative operations for the San Diego facility which distributed throughout Southern California and Mexico.
Work history example #2
General Supervisor
Wingstop
- Initiated the implementation of a spa/fitness facility at the University of Maryland Hotel.
- Repaired client relationship between Metz and Facility Administration.
- Hired on as a cashier, promoted to shift lead after my first year and then AGM a few months later.
- Managed all areas of operations that included accurate P&L responsibility delivering food cost and payroll on target.
- Trained over 100 employees in all aspects of facility operations.
Work history example #3
General Supervisor
CBIZ
- Improved future maintenance plant activities that will save facility shutdown costs in future years.
- Maintained safety of workplace environment in accordance with all relevant OSHA regulations.
- Provided GAAP information for Operations personnel to make informed decisions
- Selected Achievements: Supervised 6 salary and 30+ UAW-represented hourly employees within the Materials Department.
- Conducted research to formulate cost and expenses in order to engage in aggressive negotiations and settlements between sub-contractors and estimating departments.
Work history example #4
General Supervisor
Westgate Resorts
- Initiated the implementation of a spa/fitness facility at the University of Maryland Hotel.
- Served as an associate, manager, and AGM prior to promotion.
- Hired on as a cashier, promoted to shift lead after my first year and then AGM a few months later.
- Offered expert insights on improvements through systems evaluations.
- Developed and implemented strategic business plans for each facility, resulting in ongoing improvement, productivity and profitability.
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Add an education section to 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 general supervisor resumes:
High School Diploma
2006 - 2006
Master's Degree in business
Monroe College, Bronxville, NY
2008 - 2009
Highlight your general supervisor certifications on your resume
If you have any additional certifications, add them to the certification section.
To list, use the full name of the certification and the organization that issued it, along with the date of achievement.
If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your general supervisor resume:
- Project Management Professional (PMP)