A cashier résumé example, and why the till record matters

One complete cashier résumé, written out in full. The person is invented. The reading and the score come from the product itself.

ConxfolioPublished 2026-09-13

— customers a shift, takings, shortages. that is a record.

Till work is the job most often written as a single line on a résumé, and it is the one where a manager most needs a reason to choose one applicant over forty. This example is written out in full so you can read what that reason looks like, then put through the tools here so you can see what a parser takes from it. The candidate is invented. Dorota Kettleburn-Ajayi does not exist, neither employer exists, and every figure was chosen to demonstrate a shape.

The example, in full

Four hundred customers a shift is a fact

Four hundred customers a shift across tills and eight self-service points. Takings of GBP 9 000 a shift with no till shortages in twelve months. Those two lines describe accuracy under volume, which is the entire job and is almost never written down.

The shortage record is the important half. Anybody can serve customers; a store manager is choosing between people who can and cannot be trusted with a drawer, and only one of those is stated on most applications.

The lines beyond the till are the promotion lines

Training nine new assistants on the till, age-restricted sales and refunds. Covering the customer service desk for 200 refunds and collections a week. Checking thirty deliveries a week and reporting forty discrepancies for credit.

Each of those is something a supervisor asked this person to do because the till work was reliable. On a page for a supervisor's job, those three lines are the application.

What the reading found

The door below hands the document to the résumé builder as plain text, through the same import an uploaded file goes through, and the review shows each field beside the line it came from. Here the completeness pass found four readable sections, 106 words of experience evidence and ten distinct skills, with two languages in their own section.

No language model is involved. The readers are deterministic and every string they emit is checked in code to be a span of the document, which matters most on a short page where a dropped line is a quarter of the evidence.

What the checker scored it

Ninety-seven out of 100, with one improvement remaining worth 8 points. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% + 100 × 30% + 92 × 40% = 97, explained in the article on the score. Seven action-led lines, four of them measurable, seven lines of depth, and 186 readable words against a band opening at 250.

A four-year retail career scoring 97 is worth sitting with. The content rules reward evidence rather than seniority, so a well-written cashier's page scores within three points of a director's. The ATS checker applies the same arithmetic to both.

What this example leaves off

No photograph, no list of personal qualities and no reference details. A store manager is reading for the customer volume, the takings and the shortage record, and each additional element pushes those down the page.

Every short assignment is left off as well. Two solid roles with real figures beat six three-month placements listed in full, and where the short roles matter they can be grouped under one line with honest dates.

What to change for your own

Change the store type. Supermarket, convenience, department store, pharmacy counter and petrol forecourt all use this shape with different responsibilities. Then put in your own customer counts, takings, shortage record and the tasks you were trusted with.

Keep the languages if you have them, because in a mixed neighbourhood a manager reads that line as a service improvement. The design gallery holds 37 layouts, and the retail manager example, the waiter example and the bartender example show where this shape leads.