Human services assistant resume examples from 2026
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How to write a human services assistant 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 human services assistant-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.
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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:
- Look to the job listing. You often need to include the exact keywords from the job description. Take note of the skills listed for the job.
- Put all relevant hard and soft skills in your skills section.
- Be specific. If you are too broad, you may not be giving the best picture of your skills and leave the hiring manager uncertain of your abilities.
- Be up to date. Software names change and companies merge. Don't look out of touch by being careless.
- Be accurate. Spelling and even upper or lowercase can dramatically change meanings. Make sure you are correctly listing your skills.
Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a human services assistant resume:
- Developmental Disabilities
- Patients
- Social Work
- Direct Supervision
- Direct Care
- Social Services
- Patient Care
- Mental Health
- Community Resources
- Residential Facility
- ADL
- Treatment Plan
- Front Desk
- Vital Signs
- Intellectual Disabilities
- Incident Reports
- CPR
- Management System
- Meal Preparation
- Food Preparation
- Community Services
- Crisis Intervention
- Clean Environment
- Review Reports
- Mental Illness
- Child Care
- Accompany Clients
- Telephone Calls
- Substance Abuse
- Care Plan
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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 human services assistant.
How to write human services assistant 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 great bullet points from human services assistant resumes:
Work history example #1
Direct Care Professional
D&S Community Services
- Completed training programs, CPR, CPI and medication class to ensure safety and health was maintained at all times.
- Trained in CPR and First Aid Employed as PRN (as needed) from 2007 - 2010
- Observed and documented residents' behavior, speech communication, feeding pattern and personal hygiene for assessing and meeting treatment goals.
- Assisted in the coordination of services within the interdisciplinary team as well as collateral contacts.
- Dispensed medication to individuals while maintaining their balanced nutrition.
Work history example #2
Human Services Assistant
Queens Centers for Progress
- Assisted the ISP team in creating new outcomes for consumer training/ISP.
- Maintained CPR & First Aid Certifications on an annual basis.
- Provided complete Activity of Daily Living (ADL) assistance for six developmentally disabled adults in residential setting.
- Dispensed medication to consumers following Program Manager s directives.
- Maintained all confidential personnel files, and CPR compliance records.
Work history example #3
Library Assistant (Part-Time)
The University of Virginia's College at Wise
- Located library materials for patrons, including books, periodicals, DVDs, Braille volumes, and pictures.
- Acquired research materials for faculty and graduate students from other institutions via OCLC -ILL subsystem and various mail format request systems.
- Shelved books, musical scores, and CDs for reading and research.
- Processed requests for journal articles and books from RapidILL, OCLC, and DOCLINE.
- Helped maintain the engineering library computer cluster, Linux and Windows.
Work history example #4
Front End Cashier
Walmart
- Managed quality communication, customer support and product representation for each client making sure every customer's information was kept private.
- Used assertive yet sensitive communication techniques when dealing with customers.
- Guaranteed positive customer interaction by maintaining current knowledge of many sales and products.
- Prepared sandwiches, deli trays, deep fried food, prepared rotisserie chickens, closed deli and did clean up.
- Sanitized kitchen supplies and thoroughly cleaned deli equipment.
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Add an education section to your resume
Here is the best way to format your education section:
- Display your highest degree first.
- If you graduated over 5 years ago, put this section at the bottom of your resume. If you 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 human services assistant resumes:
Bachelor's Degree in communication
University of Maryland - College Park, College Park, MD
2003 - 2006
Master's Degree in psychology
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
2014 - 2015
Highlight your human services assistant certifications on your resume
If you have any additional certifications, add them to the certification section.
Start simple. Include the full name of the certification. It's also good to mention the organization that issued the certification. Next, specify when you obtained the certification.
If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your human services assistant resume:
- Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA)
- Medical Assistant
- Certified Medical Administrative Assistant (CMAA)
- Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (NHA)
- First Aid, CPR and AED Instructor
- Certified Medical Office Manager (CMOM)
- Patient Care Technician
- Registered Medical Assistant