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Help desk supervisor resume examples from 2025

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write a help desk 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 help desk 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 help desk supervisor interviews.

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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:

  1. Start with the job listing. Frequently, the keywords looked for by recruiters will be listed. Be careful to include all skills in the job listing you have experience with.
  2. Consider all the software and tools you use on a daily basis. When in doubt, list them!
  3. Make sure you use accurate and up to date terms for all the skills listed.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some help desk supervisor interviews.

Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a help desk supervisor resume:

  • Customer Service
  • Technical Support
  • Operational Procedures
  • Help Desk
  • Desk Support
  • Level Agreements
  • Problem Resolution
  • ITIL
  • Troubleshoot
  • Computer System
  • Customer Support
  • Statistical Reports
  • Software Applications
  • Trouble Tickets
  • Technical Assistance
  • User Accounts
  • LAN
  • Performance Appraisals
  • Mobile Device Management
  • VPN
  • Performance Reviews
  • POS
  • OS
  • VoIP
  • Technical Issues
  • SharePoint
  • Software Issues
  • Technical Problems
  • Level Support
  • Citrix

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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 help desk supervisor.

How to write help desk 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 help desk supervisor resumes:

Work history example #1

Help Desk Analyst

American International Group

  • Assisted in the migration of over 40 Windows servers to the next generation data center.
  • Led office in all training applications and troubleshooting including product knowledge, policy, software and hardware integrations.
  • Supported Blackberry users and configured and managed all Blackberries via Blackberry Desktop Manager.
  • Managed technical support and helpdesk operations for internal teams.
  • Migrated OS from Windows XP to Windows 7 using SCCM, with user data transfer, application loading and compatibility testing.

Work history example #2

Help Desk Supervisor

Lockheed Martin

  • Conducted periodic hardware maintenance to ensure system performance and reliability.
  • Certified Dell/HP technician responsible for repairing, and/or replacing hardware components.
  • Provided follow-up status to end-users in accordance with specified support policies and procedures.
  • Managed System Administrators for the Logistics Information System.
  • Performed printer installs and maintenance for Xerox, HP, and Dell printers.

Work history example #3

Help Desk Team Lead

Self Helpers

  • Researched and prepared marketing, financial, and feasibility reports concerning new business acquisitions and acquisition prospects.
  • Trained in CPR, Dementia and Alzheimer's Care, and First Aid.
  • Certified Nursing Assistant --Checking Vitals --Assist with ADL's --Take to appointments Volunteer Hope Of Life Int.
  • Certified Nursing Assistant Provide excellent nursing care and companionship to an elderly patient on an in-home basis.
  • Certified Nursing Assistant Provided companionship and individualized in-home health care to improve patient's quality of life and well-being.

Work history example #4

Help Desk Representative

United Parcel Service

  • Monitored AOC servers for UPS airline operations, Database servers in UNIX and AIX environment using BMC Patrol and TIVOLI.
  • Coordinated with Corporate on software / hardware changes and new application roll outs.
  • Worked with the operations team to determine the daily plan to utilize helpers in high volume areas.
  • Placed customers on alternate facilities (ISDN, DSL) to restore communications when primary lines were down.
  • Worked closely with the operation, communicating helper performance and administration of uniforms and tracking helper performance.

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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 for resumes:

Associate's Degree in computer science

University of Maryland - College Park, College Park, MD

2003 - 2005

Highlight your help desk supervisor certifications on your resume

Certifications can be a crucial part of your resume. Many jobs have required certifications.

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 help desk supervisor resume:

  1. IT Information Library Foundations Certification (ITIL)
  2. Security 5 Certification
  3. Certified Information Technology Professional (CITP)

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