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Mate resume examples for 2025

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write a mate 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 mate-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 mate interviews.

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List the right project manager skills

Many resumes are filtered out by hiring software before a human eye ever sees them. A robust Skills section can let recruiters (and bots) know you have the skills to do the job. Here is how to make the most of your skills section:

  1. 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.
  2. Include as many relevant hard or technical mate skills as possible for each job you apply to.
  3. Be specific with the skills you have and be sure you are using the most up to date and accurate terms.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some mate interviews.

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

  • Safety Equipment
  • Vessel Maintenance
  • Mates
  • Management System
  • DP
  • Groceries
  • USCG
  • DPO
  • Cargo Operations
  • Vessel Operations
  • Coast Guard
  • Engine Room
  • Firefighting
  • Emergency Drills
  • Standing Orders
  • Blowers
  • Deck Equipment
  • SMS
  • PIC
  • Preventive Maintenance
  • Safety Procedures
  • General Maintenance
  • Deck Operations
  • GRT
  • Safety Drills
  • GPS
  • Mooring Lines
  • Routine Maintenance
  • Ecdis
  • Booms

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How to structure your work experience

A work experience section is a vital part of your resume because it shows you have the experience to succeed in your next job.

  1. Put your most recent experience first. Prospective employers care about your most recent accomplishments the most.
  2. Put the 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. This means if you're a fairly experienced worker, you might need to leave off that first internship or other positions in favor of highlighting more pertinent positions.

How to write mate 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 mate resumes:

Work History Example #1

Ship Steward

PETCO Animal Supplies Stores

  • Facilitated the Data Monitoring Group in escalating data quality issues to Data Owners, Operational Data Stewards, and Data Custodians.
  • Assessed impacts including universe changes and SQL changes through the full project life cycle.
  • Executed daily operations of cleaning tables, washing dishes, and taking out the trash.
  • Cleaned and setup dining room both before and after service.
  • Worked as a dish washer keeping the dishes all caught up, and help cooks prep the food

Work History Example #2

Captain

American Cancer Society

  • Instructed and monitored student workers; assisted facility managers with opening/closing cafeteria College Leadership Experience:
  • Participated in intramural volleyball, basketball and indoor and outdoor soccer.
  • Developed and administered objectives, operating policies, and procedures to elicit operational safety improvements.
  • Served in increasing positions of responsibility beginning from platoon leader up through battalion operations and intelligence officer (S2/3).
  • Directed compliance with Department of Defense and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) safety, operational, and terminal procedures.

Work History Example #3

Ship Steward (Part-Time)

Union Mission

  • Documented patient care and progress, patient instructions, worker communication, and communication from other providers in patient chart.
  • Gained experience in great team work along with great communications.
  • Executed data standardization and validation tools including setup and scheduling periodic updates.
  • Hired temporarily and transitioned into a permanent position.
  • Supported Microbiologists at all BSC sites and assured communication between the BSC sites on microbiology issues.

Work History Example #4

Mate

Trader Joe's

  • Transferred to Illinois river where I advanced to second mate.
  • Operated and managed all electrical equipment aboard the USS Providence including turbine generators, motor generators, and instrument equipment
  • Assigned to electrical maintenance on USS O'Brien DD-975.
  • Assisted the Captain in maintaining vessel and supervising crew activities, Began working on first DP vessel.
  • Complied with stringent local, federal, USCG and international regulations.

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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 mate resumes:

Some College Courses In Marine Transportation

Niagara University, Niagara, NY

2013 - 2013

Highlight your mate 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 mate resume:

  1. GMDSS Radio Operator (DO)
  2. National 2nd Mate Unlimited OC or NC
  3. OSHA Safety Certificate
  4. Marine Radio Operator Permit (MP)

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