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Nursery worker resume examples from 2025

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write a nursery worker resume

Craft a resume summary statement

Put a resume summary on the top of your resume to highlight your accomplishments. A 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 write a strong, impressive resume summary:

Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.

Step 2: Include your years of experience in nursery worker-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 nursery worker 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. 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 nursery worker 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 nursery worker interviews.

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

  • Pigs
  • Water Plants
  • CPR
  • Child Care
  • Church Services
  • Nursery Stock
  • Shovels
  • Irrigation Systems
  • Mowing
  • Plant Care
  • DUG
  • Front Desk
  • Clean Environment
  • Diaper Changes
  • Sprinklers
  • Wheelbarrows
  • Social Development
  • GOD
  • Bible Study
  • Children AGE
  • Mowers
  • Church Events
  • Nursery Room
  • Potty Training

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How to structure your work experience

Your employment history is arguably one of the most important parts of your resume. It shows you have experience and foundation in your field to successfully master the nursery worker position. Here is how to most effectively structure your work experience:

  1. List your most recent experience first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order. Employers care about your most recent experience the most.
  2. 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.
  3. Include only recent, relevant jobs.

How to write nursery worker 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 effective examples from nursery worker resumes:

Work history example #1

Day Care Worker

Gold's Gym

  • Provided childcare for children and infants while parents focused on their health goals.
  • Appointed to take care of all ages of children infants, pre-school, and very young kids.

Work history example #2

Nursery Attendant

Williams

  • Assisted with Children's ministry, taught bible study, did arts and crafts, helped plan events.
  • Handed out snacks to children Played games with children/made crafts Taught children a Bible lesson
  • Volunteered in nursery and Vacation Bible School.
  • Trained staff to interact directly with infants, promoting responsive care.
  • Watched all kids from ages 1-12 during worship on Sunday and bible study Wednesday

Work history example #3

Farm Worker

Na

  • Operated Tractors, Semi trucks, skid-steers, hauled heavy loads with pickup truck.
  • Managed a fluctuating workforce of 5 to 20 farmhands, organized weekly CSA program and multiple Farmer's Market operations.
  • Acquired and maintained a CDL.
  • Operated various equipment such as backhoes, graders, front loaders, dump trucks, and small Bobcat tractors.
  • Used a Case backhoe and a bobcat with various implements to remove underbrush and to maintain fence lines.

Work history example #4

Kitchen Helper

Ruby Tuesday

  • Interacted positively and pleasantly with customers and employees.
  • Cleaned the oven and dishes.
  • Cleaned dishes by hand as well as loading into a washer in a very fast paced environment.
  • Cleaned and put away dishes, swept and mopped floors, and took out the trash
  • Practiced keeping the work space clean such washing dishes and other utensils that were used through-out the day.

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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:

Bachelor's Degree in psychology

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

2009 - 2012

High School Diploma

2017 - 2017

Highlight your nursery worker 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.

Here are some of the best certifications to have on nursery worker resumes:

  1. First Aid, CPR and AED Instructor
  2. Child Development Associate (CDA)

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