A free research assistant résumé example, with recruitment and retention on it
One complete research assistant résumé, written out in full. The person is invented. The reading and the score come from the product itself.
— recruited, retained, cleaned. then the papers.

Research assistants are hired on whether a study will actually run, and most pages for the job describe methods rather than delivery. This example is written out in full so you can read a delivery-shaped one, then put through the tools here so you can see what a parser stores. The candidate is invented.
The example, in full
An invented person. Not a real document, and not yours.
Leontine Barrowfield-Nakamura
Research Assistant
Copenhagen, Denmark · [email protected] · +45 32 55 02 17
Summary
Public health research assistant with four years on cohort and interview studies, running participant recruitment across six sites, cleaning 18 000 records and preparing the ethics amendments that every protocol change requires.
Experience
Research Assistant · Norreport Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen · 2023 to present
- Recruited 340 participants across 6 sites for a cohort study and held retention at 92% through the 12-month follow-up visit.
- Collected and cleaned 18 000 records over 2 years and wrote the data dictionary that 9 researchers now use on 3 separate studies.
- Prepared 4 ethics amendments and 2 annual reports to the committee, and the committee approved every one of them without a further question.
- Published 3 papers and presented 2 posters at 2 conferences, and 1 of those papers reached 40 citations within 18 months.
- Managed the study database in REDCap for 340 participants and resolved 900 data queries across 2 years without a single unresolved record.
Research Intern · Vesterbro Health Studies Unit, Copenhagen · 2022 to 2023
- Screened 1 200 abstracts and extracted data from 90 papers for a systematic review that 4 authors published in a journal over 9 months.
- Ran 40 interviews with 40 participants across 3 municipalities and coded the transcripts into 7 themes for the final report to the committee.
- Built the recruitment tracker that 6 sites still use and raised weekly enrolment from 4 participants to 11 within 2 months.
- Documented 30 study procedures in a single operating manual, and 3 new assistants started data collection without a supervisor in the room.
- Delivered 18 weekly data reports to 2 principal investigators and flagged 40 protocol deviations before the annual monitoring visit found any.
Student Research Assistant · Vesterbro Health Studies Unit, Copenhagen · 2021 to 2022
- Entered 9 000 survey responses into Stata across 12 months and reduced the error rate found at audit from 3% to under 1%.
- Contacted 600 households by telephone over 8 months and booked 220 baseline appointments for a study of physical activity in social housing.
- Prepared 40 participant information sheets in plain Danish and cut withdrawal at the consent stage from 14% to 5% within a year.
- Checked 2 000 consent forms against the protocol and corrected 60 files before the sponsor's own monitor reviewed the study site.
- Analysed 5 years of survey data covering 3 400 households and presented the findings to 2 municipal housing teams in a single session.
Projects
Master's thesis: physical activity in social housing
- Modelled the association between green space and reported activity across 3 400 households over 5 years of municipal survey data.
- Released the thesis and the analysis code, and 2 research groups reused that code in studies of 9 000 residents.
Education
MSc Public Health · Amagerbro University, Copenhagen · 2020 to 2022
Skills
participant recruitment, quantitative data collection, qualitative interviewing, R, Stata, REDCap, systematic review, ethics applications, data management, academic writing
Languages
Danish · native · English · C1 · Japanese · B1
Certifications
Good clinical practice · 2023
Recruitment and retention lead
Three hundred and forty participants across six sites, with 92% retention at twelve months. Any principal investigator reading that line knows what it cost, because recruitment is where studies fail and retention is where they fail more quietly.
The data lines follow: 18 000 records collected and cleaned, and a data dictionary now used by nine researchers. Writing something other people use is the strongest evidence available at this career stage, and it takes one line.
Ethics and screening are real work
Four ethics amendments and two annual reports. Twelve hundred abstracts screened with data extracted from ninety papers. Forty participant interviews coded into seven themes. Those are the tasks that consume a research assistant's year, and they are countable.
The thesis sits in its own projects section rather than inside experience, because it was independent work rather than employment. Five years of survey data across 3 400 households, presented to two municipal teams, is a research career starting.
Skills for a research assistant résumé, grouped
Leontine's skills group into data, methods and governance. Data: quantitative data collection, data management, R, Stata, REDCap. Methods: participant recruitment, qualitative interviewing, systematic review, academic writing. Governance: ethics applications. A principal investigator reads recruitment and ethics as the lines that keep a study on schedule.
Lab-based research assistants swap the data group for techniques and equipment. Set this up under Skills in the free résumé builder; one list works too.
From student research assistant to research assistant
A student role proves careful help: data entered, literature screened, participants contacted. The Vesterbro roles start there. An intern adds a task you owned end to end.
A research assistant adds recruitment and retention figures, ethics work and outputs you contributed to. List publications in their own section once you have them. The coursework guide helps early-career researchers.
How it reads and scores
The ATS checker scored it 100 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with achievement quality 1 point short. The second reading is the writing check, which asks how the document is written rather than what a parser can find in it, and it scored 95: 91 of the 96 points that applied. The method behind these numbers is written up once, in how our examples are made and checked.
What this example leaves off
No participant information, no unpublished results and no full publication list. A principal investigator reads restraint about unpublished data as basic research conduct, and a publication list belongs on an academic curriculum vitae rather than on a two-page résumé.
Conference attendance is left off as well. Attending is not evidence; presenting is, and the example says how many posters at how many conferences rather than listing the events.
What to change for your own
Change the field. Laboratory science, social research, clinical trials and humanities research all use this shape with different units and different ethics regimes. Then put in your own recruitment, retention, dataset sizes and outputs.
Keep the thesis as a project while it is still your largest independent piece of work; the guide on coursework covers when to drop it. The design gallery holds 37 layouts, and the student example, the librarian example and the bookkeeper example sit beside this one.
Write yours beside it
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Use this exampleCheck a résumé insteadQuestions
- Is Leontine Barrowfield-Nakamura a real researcher
- No. She is invented for this page, and so are Norreport Institute of Public Health and Vesterbro Health Studies Unit. The figures show a shape and no study described here exists.
- What matters most on a research assistant's page
- Recruitment and retention. Three hundred and forty participants across six sites with 92% retention at twelve months is the number a principal investigator worries about most and the hardest one to achieve.
- Should publications be listed separately
- On a short academic page a line inside the role is enough. Three papers co-authored and two posters presented is proportionate; a full publication list belongs on a curriculum vitae.
- What did the checker score it
- 100 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with achievement quality 1 point short. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% for parseability + 100 × 30% for completeness + 99 × 40% for content. The writing check beside it scored 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied, and the five points it withheld are the tense rule.
- Is a thesis worth keeping after two jobs
- As a project with two lines, yes. It is where independent method was proved, and the builder keeps a projects section separate from experience for exactly this. The reader kept it separate here and counted the fifteen experience lines on their own.
- Which design is this rendered in
- Architect, one of the eight layouts these examples were moved onto on 2026-09-14. This page used to argue for Signal, which is outside that set, and the document was moved rather than the paragraph quietly dropped. Of the 37 layouts in the gallery, 24 export a PDF whose text layer scores what the pasted text scores, in a single column with the reading order kept and no graphics; the eight came out of that set.
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