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How to write a miner 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 miner-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 miner 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 miner 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 miner resume:
- Safety Regulations
- Ground Support
- MSHA
- Underground Mine
- Conveyor Belts
- Shovels
- Water Truck
- General Maintenance
- Preventative Maintenance
- Front End Loader
- Scoops
- Shotcrete
- SAS
- Equipment Maintenance
- Bulldozers
- Longwall
- Equipment Operation
- Ground Control
- Buggy
- Bobcat
- Decision Trees
- Routine Maintenance
- LHD
- CDL
- Dump Truck
- Coal Mining
- ATF
- End Loaders
- CPR
- Torches
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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 miner experience bullet points
Your resume is not a list of responsibilities or a job description. Instead, it is your chance to show your accomplishments and show why you're good at what you do.
- Use the What, How, and Why format. Answering these questions turns a bland job description into an effective showcase of your abilities.
- What were your responsibilities or goals?
- How did you accomplish them?
- Why were your results important? (How did it impact your company? Can you quantify the results in numbers? )
Here are great bullet points from miner resumes:
Work history example #1
Miner
Neenah Foundry Co
- Operated Heavy Equipment-Demolition/Explosive Experience-Mined Gypsum Rock-MSHA Trained
- Operated scoop, buggy, loader, hauler, motor and bolter on section mining.
- Completed rehabilitation, production & development work in an underground placer operation.
- Regulated proper unloading processes from various trucking vendors.
- certified in cpr,First-aid.
Work history example #2
Miner
Professional Service Industries
- Created and implemented Access database, generating XML data to feed JavaScript visualization of technology system relationships.
- Worked on sentiment analysis in python to analyze the severity of crime/fraudulent activity from the articles.
- Implemented User-User and Item-Item Collaborative Filtering in python to customize recommendation topics and articles to individuals and segments.
- Repaired and built longwall shields, troubleshoot, repair and replace bit lugs, and hose long wall shields
- Followed safety, compliance, environmental, and MSHA requirements at all times.
Work history example #3
Core Driller
St. Lukes Home
- Handled sales and service for all drilling rigs running south of 1-20 for drilling bits and Drilco tubularservices.
- Moved into pressure control rigging up drilling chokes anddegassers.
- Acquired CDL and Drillers License.
- Hauled water in 2,000-gallon tank truck for drill rig.
- Assisted in the installation and removal of liners throughout various frac and drilling rigs.
Work history example #4
Chipper
Hodge
- Supervised others while assuring product quality, ordered materials necessary for the sanding process, helped facilitate the shipping process
- Chipped and grinded high spots and ridges; Loaded and unloaded equipment up to 80 pounds.
- Chipped sand from military equipment Responsible for quality assurance and control during inspection of manufacturing
- Prepped for marine painting and cleaning products.
- Served in the capacity of making gauges fit for the railroad system.
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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 for resumes:
High School Diploma
2012 - 2012
Highlight your miner 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 miner resume:
- Certified Mine Safety Professional (CMSP)