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, and at the same five lines as the rest. Eight thousand logged site hours and a first-attempt pass on every college assessment are facts, and they explain the ladder from apprentice to approved without a paragraph about work ethic.

What did the checker score it

98 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with achievement quality 2 points short and readable volume 2 points short. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% for parseability + 100 × 30% for completeness + 96 × 40% for content, on three dated roles, fifteen action-led lines and 452 readable words. The writing check scored it 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied.

Which design is this rendered in

Nexus, one of the 24 ATS-safe layouts out of 37, and one of the eight chosen on 2026-09-14 from a measurement of every layout's own export. Its accent header sits above a single column, so a page that gets printed in a site office still comes back out as text.

Example · Trades

A free 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 · updated 2026-09-25

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

The electrician example résumé drawn as a complete page in the Nexus design: name, summary, three dated roles with five bullet lines each, education, certifications and a skills row — The example below, drawn by the builder's own renderer in the Nexus 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.

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 planned maintenance across Glasgow and Paisley, working on inspection, testing, certification and the remedial work left behind by other contractors on 30 sites a year.

Experience

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

Completed first-fix and second-fix wiring on 34 commercial sites of up to 600 square metres, and handed every one over on programme.
Issued 210 electrical installation certificates and 90 condition reports over 5 years with no remedial recall raised by a client or an inspector.
Reduced return visits on maintenance calls by 31% by carrying a stocked van inventory of 140 lines on every working day.
Supervised 3 apprentices and signed off 1 200 hours of their site work against the college portfolio each of 4 years.
Diagnosed 180 faults a year on distribution boards and emergency lighting, and restored supply on 9 of every 10 first visits.

Electrician · Barrowfield Maintenance, Paisley · 2015 to 2019

Maintained lighting and power across 18 retail units and 2 warehouses, and answered 400 reactive calls a year on a rota.
Rewired 26 flats on a single social housing contract and finished the programme 2 weeks early without a tenant losing power.
Tested 400 circuits a year under periodic inspection across 18 sites and recorded every result against the schedule the client kept.
Cut emergency call-out response from 4 hours to 90 minutes across 18 sites by rewriting the on-call rota and the van stock list.
Installed 120 units of emergency lighting across 9 buildings and certified each one against the fire risk assessment before handover to the client.

Apprentice Electrician · Barrowfield Maintenance, Paisley · 2011 to 2015

Logged 8 000 site hours across a four year apprenticeship and passed every college assessment at the first attempt over that period.
Supported 60 domestic rewiring jobs and 12 commercial installations alongside an approved electrician, and wired 40 consumer units under supervision on site.
Terminated 900 cable ends over 2 years in containment and trunking, and recorded each circuit on the drawings the supervisor signed.
Attended 2 years of day release at Clydebank Technical College and finished the practical assessment ahead of the other 14 students in the group.
Checked 400 hand tools and test instruments over 2 years against the calibration register and withdrew 20 that had failed.

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 of 140 lines. Four hundred circuits tested a year across eighteen sites. Twenty-six flats rewired two weeks ahead of programme without a tenant losing power. That last one is the line a contracts manager remembers, because programme is the thing they lose sleep over.

Skills for an electrician résumé, grouped

Ruaridh's skills split into installation, testing and compliance. Installation: commercial fit-out, containment and trunking, distribution boards, emergency lighting, fire alarm systems. Testing: inspection and testing, fault finding, certification. Site: risk assessment, apprentice supervision. A contracts manager reads the testing group closely, because it says you can sign work off.

Domestic electricians often group by job type instead: rewires, consumer units, EV chargers, solar. Name your own groups in the builder; the qualifications stay in their own certifications block, where they are read first.

From apprentice to approved electrician

An apprentice résumé proves time on the tools and progress through the qualifications: the college course, the sites worked, the supervisor's sign-offs. The Barrowfield apprentice years do that. An electrician's lines count installations and faults found. The approved grade adds testing and certification, the lines that carry legal weight.

Moving toward supervisor or contracts roles, add the jobs you ran: the size of the job, the team on it, the programme you kept to. Keep the cards line at the top at every stage, because site managers check it before anything else. The certifications guide covers the format.

How it reads and scores

The import review reads 3 roles, 1 degree and 10 skills before anything reaches the editor. The ATS checker scored it 98 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with achievement quality 2 points short and readable volume 2 points short. The writing check scored it 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied, and the five it withheld are one rule: bullet tense. How our examples are made explains the import review and the scoring behind these figures.

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 — Ruaridh Penhaligon's electrician résumé read into fields, each field beside the line it came from.

The same import review on a 390 pixel phone screen, with the example notice above the accept button — Ruaridh Penhaligon's electrician résumé in the same review on a 390 px phone.

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 Nexus 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, and at the same five lines as the rest. Eight thousand logged site hours and a first-attempt pass on every college assessment are facts, and they explain the ladder from apprentice to approved without a paragraph about work ethic.
What did the checker score it: 98 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with achievement quality 2 points short and readable volume 2 points short. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% for parseability + 100 × 30% for completeness + 96 × 40% for content, on three dated roles, fifteen action-led lines and 452 readable words. The writing check scored it 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied.
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: Nexus, one of the 24 ATS-safe layouts out of 37, and one of the eight chosen on 2026-09-14 from a measurement of every layout's own export. Its accent header sits above a single column, so a page that gets printed in a site office still comes back out as text.

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 22 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.