Barista Resume Example

Successful baristas build their career on a large base of skills, and it’s crucial for you to show them appropriately on your resume if you’re to land your next job. Here’s how you can serve up a strong resume in three simple steps.

1. Start your resume with a well-crafted objective

A resume objective is a classic way to start a resume. A well-written objective references your strongest qualification right up front, immediately capturing the hiring manager’s attention.

“Personable and professional SCA-certified barista with more than 4 years of experience…”

This “strongest qualification” can be a certification, a course you’ve completed, or a relevant degree you’ve earned, or whatever you think your strongest qualification is.

Follow up that attention-grabbing qualification with references to your skills that are most relevant to the job you’re applying to:

“Adept at the efficient and sanitary operation of a variety of coffee machines and POS software. Experienced in managing junior colleagues.”

Finally, close out the resume objective by clearly explaining what role you’re applying for:

“Seeking a supervisory role.”

When you put your strongest qualification, your key skills, and your target job all together, you’ll inevitably end up with a strong resume objective:

“Personable and professional SCA-certified barista with more than 4 years of experience in the coffee brewing and customer service sectors. Adept at the efficient and sanitary operation of a variety of coffee machines and POS software. Experienced in managing junior colleagues. Seeking a supervisory role.”

2. Center your resume around your experience

As a barista, it’s likely that experience from your current and past barista jobs are far more relevant to your next job than is your education. We recommend formatting your resume in such a way that your work history takes center stage, as our candidate Emily Guerrero did in the sample above.

First, list your jobs in the reverse chronological order, with your current or latest job first. Then, list 4 or 5 key responsibilities under each of your jobs.

To do this, write down your daily, weekly, and monthly tasks. Then group similar tasks together, and write a statement describing each group you’ve identified.

For example, our example resume above has example statements dedicated to each of these key areas of barista duties:

• Preparing a range of beverages
• Operating various equipment (e.g., POS systems, coffee machines, and sanitizing/cleaning equipment)
• Engaging in sales and marketing activities
• Engaging in customer service (answering phone calls, taking orders over the phone, via apps, and other methods).
• Training new baristas
• Keeping the cafe/store clean and sanitary
• Educating and making recommendations to customers

Remember to include relevant numbers to each statement, as this can turn each responsibility into an achievement. For example:

3. Highlight both hard and soft skills

Finally, reinforce your best characteristics and skills by listing them down, with or without additional context/explanatory text. Some of the skills that you might have (or need) as a successful barista include:

Look over our exhaustive list of skills to put on a resume for more inspiration. If you’re facing a deadline, use our resume builder to generate a custom, professional resume in just a few minutes.