Is Ruaridh Penhaligon a real electrician

No. He is invented for this page, and so are Crannoch Electrical Services and Barrowfield Maintenance. Every figure was written to show a shape and describes nobody's work.

Where do the cards and qualifications go

In their own certifications section with a year each. A contracts manager checks the card before reading a single achievement line, and a qualification buried in a paragraph is a qualification that gets missed.

Should an apprenticeship stay on a ten-year résumé

Yes, at two lines. Logged hours and a first-attempt pass are facts, and they explain the ladder from apprentice to approved without a paragraph about work ethic.

What did the checker score it

100 out of 100, with nothing open. Twelve action-led lines, six with measurable evidence, twelve lines of depth and 256 readable words, which clears the volume band at 250.

Which design is this rendered in

Typewriter, one of the 21 ATS-safe layouts out of 37. It is a plain monospaced page that prints legibly and extracts cleanly, which suits a document that often gets printed in an office on site.

Example · Trades

An electrician résumé example, with the cards where they belong

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

ConxfolioPublished 2026-09-13

— cards first. a contracts manager checks them before anything else.

The electrician example résumé drawn as a complete page in the Typewriter design: name, summary, the roles with their bullet lines, education and a skills row — The example below, drawn by the builder's own renderer in the Typewriter design. The picture was taken by pressing this page's own Use this example door and photographing what the editor rendered.

An electrician's application is usually decided by two things a résumé often buries: which cards are current, and how much work has been signed off. This example is written out in full so you can read how they sit on a page, then put through the tools here so you can see what software takes from it. The candidate is invented. Ruaridh Penhaligon does not exist, neither employer exists, and every figure was chosen to demonstrate a shape.

The example, in full

An invented person. Not a real document, and not yours.

Ruaridh Penhaligon
Approved Electrician
Glasgow, United Kingdom · [email protected] · +44 141 496 0212

Summary
Approved electrician with ten years on commercial fit-out and maintenance. Works on testing, certification and the jobs that were signed off badly by somebody else.

Experience

Approved Electrician · Crannoch Electrical Services, Glasgow · 2019 to present

Completed first-fix and second-fix on 34 commercial fit-outs, up to 600 square metres each.
Issued 210 electrical installation certificates and 90 condition reports with no remedial recall.
Reduced return visits on maintenance calls by 31% by carrying a stocked van inventory of 140 lines.
Supervised 3 apprentices and signed off 1 200 hours of their site work.

Electrician · Barrowfield Maintenance, Paisley · 2015 to 2019

Maintained lighting and power across 18 retail units and 2 warehouses.
Rewired 26 flats in a single social housing contract, 2 weeks ahead of programme.
Carried out periodic inspection and testing on 400 circuits a year.
Reduced emergency callout response from 4 hours to 90 minutes across 18 sites.

Apprentice Electrician · Barrowfield Maintenance, Paisley · 2011 to 2015

Completed a 4-year apprenticeship with 8 000 logged site hours.
Assisted on 60 domestic rewires and 12 commercial installations.
Passed the final practical assessment at first attempt after 2 years of day release.

Education
SVQ Level 3 Electrical Installation · Clydebank Technical College, Glasgow · 2011 to 2015

Skills
commercial fit-out, inspection and testing, fault finding, containment and trunking, distribution boards, emergency lighting, fire alarm systems, certification, risk assessment, apprentice supervision

Certifications
18th Edition Wiring Regulations · 2022
Inspection and Testing, City and Guilds 2391 · 2018
ECS Gold Card · 2016

The cards are the first thing a reader looks for

Three certifications with three years beside them: the wiring regulations edition, the inspection and testing qualification, and the card. A contracts manager filling a fit-out programme checks those before reading anything else, because a candidate without a current card cannot be put on site next week.

Putting them in their own section is what makes them findable. The reader stores certifications as a section of their own, and a qualification mentioned inside a summary sentence is one a filter will miss and a human being will read as vague.

Volume and quality in the same line

The strongest line in this example is the one about 210 installation certificates and 90 condition reports issued with no remedial recall. It carries the volume of the work and the quality of it in one sentence, and neither half is a boast.

The others work the same way. Thirty-four fit-outs with their size. Return visits down 31% because of a stocked van. Four hundred circuits tested a year. Twenty-six flats rewired two weeks ahead of programme. That last one is the line a contracts manager remembers, because programme is the thing they lose sleep over.

What the reading found

The door on this page hands the document above 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, 163 words of experience evidence and ten distinct skills, with the three cards stored as certifications and their years kept.

The Conxfolio import review after the door opened, showing Ruaridh Penhaligon's example read into fields beside the rendered page, with the line saying it is an example — The real import review, opened by this page's own door. It names Ruaridh Penhaligon as invented before anything is saved, and it shows every field beside the line it came from.

No language model is involved. Each reader is a deterministic function with its own rule, every string it emits is checked in code to be a span of the document, and where the rules are unsure they ask rather than filing a qualification under the wrong heading.

What the checker scored it

The same import review on a 390 pixel phone screen, with the example notice above the accept button — The same door on a phone. Nothing is withheld on the small screen: the notice, the reading and the accept button are all there.

One hundred out of 100, with nothing remaining. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% + 100 × 30% + 100 × 40%, explained in the article on the score. Twelve action-led lines, six of them measurable, twelve lines of depth and 256 readable words against a volume band that opens at 250.

Trades résumés are usually short because the work speaks for itself on site, and shortness is the one thing that costs points here. Three roles rather than two is what carried this page over the line. The ATS checker prints the count it used, so you can see whether your own page is short or thin, which are different problems.

What this example leaves off

No tool list, no list of manufacturers whose equipment you have installed, and no photograph of a distribution board. A contracts manager assumes the tools and reads the cards, and the manufacturers change every contract.

Individual site names are left off too. They identify a client, they date quickly, and a description of the work with its size says more than the name of a retail park. Where a site is genuinely well known and you are free to name it, one mention is enough.

What to change for your own

Change the discipline first. Domestic, industrial, maintenance, solar and testing-only work all share this shape and use different nouns. Then put your own cards in with their years, and your own volumes: units, circuits, boards, certificates, sites.

Keep the supervision line if you have signed off an apprentice, because it moves you from a pair of hands to a person who can run a job. The guide on certifications covers the placement, and the design gallery holds 37 layouts. The warehouse operative example and the driver example show the same structure in other licensed work.

Write yours beside it

Opens the builder with Ruaridh's example loaded, saved as its own entry in the Typewriter design. Replace every line with your own. Free, no account.

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Questions

Is Ruaridh Penhaligon a real electrician: No. He is invented for this page, and so are Crannoch Electrical Services and Barrowfield Maintenance. Every figure was written to show a shape and describes nobody's work.
Where do the cards and qualifications go: In their own certifications section with a year each. A contracts manager checks the card before reading a single achievement line, and a qualification buried in a paragraph is a qualification that gets missed.
Should an apprenticeship stay on a ten-year résumé: Yes, at two lines. Logged hours and a first-attempt pass are facts, and they explain the ladder from apprentice to approved without a paragraph about work ethic.
What did the checker score it: 100 out of 100, with nothing open. Twelve action-led lines, six with measurable evidence, twelve lines of depth and 256 readable words, which clears the volume band at 250.
Are certificate numbers useful on the page: Counts are, numbers are not. The example says 210 installation certificates and 90 condition reports issued with no remedial recall, which describes the volume and the quality without publishing a document reference.
Which design is this rendered in: Typewriter, one of the 21 ATS-safe layouts out of 37. It is a plain monospaced page that prints legibly and extracts cleanly, which suits a document that often gets printed in an office on site.

Conxfolio is a free set of four career tools: a résumé builder with 37 rendered layouts, an ATS résumé checker that prints its own arithmetic, a cover letter builder that traces every proof paragraph back to the line it came from, and a portfolio builder with 20 authored designs. There is no account to create, nothing is held back for a paid plan, and no language model is used anywhere in the product, so the readers, the score and the letter are deterministic code you can check.