A free warehouse operative résumé example, with the pick rate on it
One complete warehouse operative résumé, written out in full. The person is invented. The reading and the score come from the product itself.
— cases a shift, accuracy, licence. three lines and you are shortlisted.

Warehouse work is measured constantly and described on paper as "hard working and reliable". This example is written out in full so you can see what the measured version looks like, then put through the tools here so you can see what a parser takes from it. The candidate is invented.
The example, in full
An invented person. Not a real document, and not yours.
Milena Straszewska
Warehouse Operative
Nottingham, United Kingdom · [email protected] · +44 115 496 0139
Summary
Warehouse operative with five years in ambient and chilled distribution, counter-balance licensed, leading a picking team of nine on a chilled site holding fourteen thousand pallets across two shifts a day.
Experience
Warehouse Operative, Team Lead · Fennimoor Distribution, Nottingham · 2022 to present
- Led a picking team of 9 across 2 shifts on a chilled site of 14 000 pallets and 6 000 pick locations.
- Picked and checked 1 300 cases a shift at 99.6% accuracy across 3 years on ambient and chilled pick faces.
- Cut picking errors on the night shift by 44% after rebuilding the pick face layout around the 200 fastest moving lines.
- Trained 11 agency staff on the voice picking system and the chilled handling rules, and 9 stayed beyond 6 months.
- Loaded 22 vehicles a shift to the departure schedule and held the site on-time dispatch rate above 98% for 2 years.
Warehouse Operative · Ashby Vale Logistics, Derby · 2019 to 2022
- Unloaded 22 vehicles a shift on a counter-balance truck and booked 900 pallets a week into the stock system without a damage claim.
- Completed 3 stock counts over 3 years across 6 000 locations and closed every one with no unresolved variance on the report.
- Maintained a clean safety record over 3 years with 0 incidents reported and 0 lost days across 700 worked shifts.
- Operated the pallet wrapper and pump trucks on 400 outbound loads a year and reported 30 damaged pallets before dispatch.
- Checked 600 goods-in deliveries a quarter against the purchase order and raised 40 discrepancy reports the buying team acted on.
Warehouse Assistant · Ashby Vale Logistics, Derby · 2018 to 2019
- Packed 700 orders a shift on the small parcel line and held the pack accuracy rate above 99% for 12 months.
- Sorted 1 200 returned units a week into resale, repair and scrap, and cleared the returns bay before every night shift.
- Supported 3 stock counts over 2 weeks as a counter and recorded 2 000 location readings a day without a single keying error.
- Cleaned and inspected 40 pallet trucks a month against the maintenance sheet and took 6 of them off the floor.
- Learned the warehouse management system in 2 weeks and covered 30 shifts on goods-in before the first full stock count.
Education
Secondary education · Sherwood Vale Academy, Nottingham · 2014 to 2019
Skills
order picking, voice picking, counter-balance forklift, stock counting, goods in and out, chilled handling, health and safety, team leading, warehouse management systems, load planning
Languages
Polish · native · English · C1
Certifications
Counter-balance forklift licence · 2020
Manual handling · 2023
Three numbers get you shortlisted
Cases a shift, accuracy, and the licence. The example gives all three in the first block: 1 300 cases a shift at 99.6% accuracy, a team of nine across two shifts, and a counter-balance licence with a year. A warehouse manager can place that candidate on a shift rota in their head, which is the entire point of the page.
The site size is worth naming as well. A 14 000 pallet chilled site is a different job from a small ambient unit, and a manager reading applications knows exactly what the difference feels like at six in the morning.
The improvement line is what makes it a lead's résumé
Cutting mispicks on the night shift by 44% after rebuilding the pick face layout is the line that separates a team lead from a picker. It shows someone who looked at why the errors happened rather than working faster.
The stock count line does similar work: three counts over three years across 6 000 locations, every one closed with no unresolved variance on the report. Counting is the part of warehouse work where carelessness shows up months later, and a clean variance record is a claim a manager can check with one phone call.
Skills for a warehouse résumé, grouped
Milena's skills group into picking, equipment and control. Picking and handling: order picking, voice picking, goods in and out, chilled handling, load planning. Equipment: counter-balance forklift, warehouse management systems. Control and people: stock counting, health and safety, team leading. A shift manager scanning forty applications looks for the equipment group first.
If you hold more than one licence, keep them in certifications with their categories and let the equipment group name the kit you use daily. The free résumé builder lets you group skills or print them as a single list.
From warehouse assistant to team lead
At assistant level the three numbers that matter are rate, accuracy and attendance: picks an hour against target, error rate, shifts covered. The Ashby Vale roles use them. As an operative the lines add equipment and area: the aisles or the chilled section you ran.
The team lead role changes the subject of each line to the shift: the team's rate, the new starters you trained, the process you changed so the shift finished on time. That improvement line is what makes it a lead's résumé. The first-job guide covers the assistant stage for people new to the floor.
How it reads and scores
The import review reads 3 roles, 1 degree, 2 languages and 10 skills before anything reaches the editor. The ATS checker scored it 98 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with readable volume 3 points short and achievement quality 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. The same check runs on every example; the method is described here.
What this example leaves off
No hobbies, no photograph, no line about being hard working, and no list of every warehouse system in the industry. A site manager is reading for the pick rate, the accuracy and the licence, and anything else on the page pushes those further down.
Agency assignments shorter than a few months are left off as well, unless they fill a gap that would otherwise need explaining. A page with nine short placements reads as instability whether or not that is the truth, and grouping them under one agency line with the dates is both honest and easier to read.
What to change for your own
Change the temperature and the sector. Ambient, chilled, frozen, e-commerce fulfilment and parts distribution all use this shape with different nouns and different rates. Then put your own figures in: cases or units a shift, accuracy, vehicles loaded, locations counted.
Name the systems. Voice picking, scanners and the warehouse management system you used are all filter terms, and they cost one line. Keep the languages if you have them. The design gallery holds 37 layouts, and the driver example, the receptionist example and the customer service example show the same structure in neighbouring work.
Write yours beside it
Opens the builder with Milena's example loaded, saved as its own entry in the Minimal design. Replace every line with your own. Free, no account.
Use this exampleCheck a résumé insteadQuestions
- Is Milena Straszewska a real person
- No. She is invented for this page, and so are Fennimoor Distribution and Ashby Vale Logistics. The figures show a shape and describe nobody.
- Do I need to know my pick rate
- If you have ever been on a productivity report, you know it. Cases a shift and accuracy are the two numbers a warehouse manager compares between candidates, and a page without them is compared on nothing.
- Where does the forklift licence go
- In certifications with the year. Counter-balance, reach and pallet truck are different licences and it is worth naming which one you hold rather than writing forklift.
- What did the checker score it
- 98 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with readable volume 3 points short and achievement quality 2 points short. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% for parseability + 100 × 30% for completeness + 95 × 40% for content, on three dated roles, fifteen action-led lines and 435 readable words. The writing check scored it 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied.
- Is a clean safety record worth a line
- Yes. Three years with no reportable incident is a fact, it is checkable, and in a warehouse it is the single thing a manager most wants to be true.
- Which design is this rendered in
- Minimal, 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. It separates the sections with space instead of a table, which is the layout feature that costs the most in extraction.
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.