Massage Therapist resume: the keywords, bullets and skills to prove.
Built from what the job actually involves: the core duties, the skills and tools rated most important, and bullet formulas you fill with your own numbers. No made-up example person.
[Your name]
Experience
[Employer] · Massage Therapist · [dates]- Massaged and kneaded muscles and soft tissues of the body to provide treatment for medical conditions, injuries, or wellness maintenance for [scale: how many, how often]; [result you can prove].
- Conferred with clients about their medical histories and problems with stress or pain to determine how massage will be most helpful for [scale: how many, how often]; [result you can prove].
- Maintained massage areas by restocking supplies or sanitizing equipment for [scale: how many, how often]; [result you can prove].
Skills
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft WordA strong Massage Therapist resume proves the core duties of the job with results: maintain massage areas by restocking supplies or sanitizing equipment; treat clients in professional settings or travel to clients' offices and homes; and maintain treatment records. Name the tools employers look for, such as Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, inside the bullets where you used them. The skills rated most important for the role are active listening, speaking and social perceptiveness (O*NET).
Why these lines work
Data Each line maps to a core task rated important by workers in the role. Hover or tap a note.
- 1Core duty, provenMassage and knead muscles and soft tissues of the body to provide…Rated one of the most important tasks for the role (O*NET). The bracketed parts are where your own numbers go.
- 2Core duty, provenConfer with clients about their medical histories and problems with…Rated one of the most important tasks for the role (O*NET). The bracketed parts are where your own numbers go.
- 3Core duty, provenMaintain massage areas by restocking supplies or sanitizing equipmentRated one of the most important tasks for the role (O*NET). The bracketed parts are where your own numbers go.
- Summary
- Experience
- Skills
- Education
- Licenses and certifications
Experience leads because the role is Job Zone 3: employers expect proof of prior work.
Massage Therapist bullets, rewritten
- MassageResponsible for massage and knead muscles and soft tissues of the body to provide treatment for…Massaged and kneaded muscles and soft tissues of the body to provide treatment for medical conditions, injuries, or wellness maintenance, [how many / how often], which [result: time saved, errors cut, revenue, people served].
- ConferResponsible for confer with clients about their medical histories and problems with stress or…Conferred with clients about their medical histories and problems with stress or pain to determine how massage will be most helpful, [how many / how often], which [result: time saved, errors cut, revenue, people served].
- MaintainResponsible for maintain massage areas by restocking supplies or sanitizing equipmentMaintained massage areas by restocking supplies or sanitizing equipment, [how many / how often], which [result: time saved, errors cut, revenue, people served].
- TreatResponsible for treat clients in professional settings or travel to clients' offices and homesTreated clients in professional settings, [how many / how often], which [result: time saved, errors cut, revenue, people served].
Advice Fill every highlighted bracket with something true and checkable. If you can't, choose a different duty.
Words that belong on a Massage Therapist resume
Data Tools reported for the role (with O*NET demand flags), the most important skills and knowledge areas. Use the ones that are true for you.
- Microsoft ExcelTool · Hot technology
- Microsoft WordTool · Hot technology
- Active ListeningSkill · importance 3.6/5
- SpeakingSkill · importance 3.5/5
- Social PerceptivenessSkill · importance 3.1/5
- Service OrientationSkill · importance 3.1/5
- Judgment and Decision MakingSkill · importance 3.0/5
- Reading ComprehensionSkill · importance 3.0/5
- Customer and Personal ServiceKnowledge
- English LanguageKnowledge
- BiologyKnowledge
- Medicine and DentistryKnowledge
How central each skill is to the job
Data O*NET importance, 1 to 5.
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How this page is built
Duties, skills, knowledge and tools come from O*NET 31.0 for the occupation. Bullet scaffolds rewrite O*NET task statements in the past tense and leave every number for you to fill in. Section order follows the role's O*NET Job Zone.
- What a specific employer screens for: always mirror the job description.
- Your results: we never invent numbers.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. TryHired selected, ranked and combined the data; O*NET is not responsible for these pages.