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Porter resume examples from 2025

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write a porter 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 porter-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.

Hiring managers spend under a minute reviewing resumes on average. This means your summary needs to demonstrate your value quickly and show why you are the perfect fit for the porter position.

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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. 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 porter interviews.

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

  • Excellent Guest
  • Dexterity
  • Customer Service
  • Cleanliness
  • Good Communication
  • General Maintenance
  • GRASS
  • Snow Removal
  • Building Floors
  • Hand Tools
  • BARS
  • OSHA
  • Shampoo Carpets
  • Work Ethic
  • PET
  • Maintenance Tasks
  • Blowers
  • Light Fixtures
  • Customer Satisfaction
  • Shovels
  • Safety Hazards
  • Routine Maintenance
  • Scrubbers
  • Clean Windows
  • Laundry Room
  • Industrial Cleaning
  • Building Exteriors
  • Vacant Apartments
  • Sweepers
  • Building Maintenance

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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 porter 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 porter 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 effective examples from porter resumes:

Work history example #1

Porter

Oakland Unified School District

  • Managed 12 week programs encouraging communication amongst participants relating to weekly reading assignments.
  • Emptied and cleaned ash trays, waste receptacles and trash buckets.
  • Cleaned offices, bathrooms, and other common areas.Swept, mopped, and vacuum floorsEmpty waste baskets and trash receptacles.Dusted furniture
  • Cleaned walls, windows, shades and curtains.
  • Emptied and cleaned trash and recycling receptacles and moved trash and recyclables to designated pick-up points.

Work history example #2

Baggage Handler

Prospect Airport Services

  • Stayed current with TSA and HazMat procedures and protocal.
  • Demonstrated a team work attitude and engaging in hands on tasks like handling with Airplanes.
  • Loaded and unloaded luggage from the airplanes.
  • Offloaded and loaded cargo airplanes with different machinery and equipment

Work history example #3

Cart Pusher

Walmart

  • Worked at Wal-Mart, gathered up carts.
  • Organized and retrieve all carts from the Wal-Mart parking lot using cart a machine.
  • Marketed Wal-Mart credit card to customers.
  • Worked for wal-mart for about 2 years.
  • Collected all carts to provide them fpr convience of a better shopping expierence at walmart

Work history example #4

Baggage Handler

Integrated Airline Services

  • Performed daily clean-up/picking up FOD.
  • Marshaled airplanes to and from arrival gates.
  • Used the tug to drive the luggage for loading and unloading to and from the conveyor and to airplanes.
  • Worked security sensitive position along the TSA to secure passenger luggage and place it down the correct belt.
  • Ensured that airplanes arrived and departed on time.

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Add an education section to your resume

Employers are looking for a few things when looking at the Education section of your resume:
  • The highest degree you have achieved.
  • TWhere you attended school, and the dates (Although if you graduated some time ago, leave the date off to avoid ageism)
  • TField of study
  • TAny honors, relevant coursework, achievements, or pertinent activities

Here are some examples of good education entries for resumes:

High School Diploma

2009 - 2009

Highlight your porter certifications on your resume

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

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.

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

  1. Commercial Driver License (CDL)
  2. Automotive Sales Professional
  3. EPA Amusement Operators Safety Certification (EPA)
  4. Certified Maintenance Manager (CMM)
  5. Certified Food Manager (CFM)
  6. Facilities Maintenance Technician Certificate
  7. Master Collision Repair & Refinishing Technician
  8. Computer Service Technician (CST)
  9. Certified Maintenance Technician (CMT)
  10. Nationally Certified Medical Office Assistant (NCMOA)

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