Security guard resume tips
A security guard resume is a post, a license, and the orders you followed. A lobby desk, a gate, a patrol route, and an armed site are not the same job. Write armed only if you were armed and hold the credential that site required. Incident reports and access control are the evidence, not a tough adjective.
Cover letter for a security guard
What to put first
Put the license or registration your state requires, if you hold it, near your name, and say armed or unarmed. Then the site type: corporate lobby, residential, retail floor, warehouse gate, hospital, or event. The first bullets should be the orders.
The orders
Name what you actually did: checked badges, wrote a visitor log, walked a patrol, watched cameras, or staffed a gate. If you could not detain and only observed and called, say that. Authority is scope.
Reports
A clear incident note is a skill. Describe the kind of report you wrote without telling a story that names a private person or exaggerates danger.
The credential
Use the words on your card. An armed posting needs the armed credential if the state requires one. A card you plan to get is not a card you have. Do not list a weapon you are not authorized to carry on the job.
An example line
Adapt this only where it is true for you. It is a shape for a bullet, not a claim that a particular person did this work.
Unarmed lobby post: checked badges against the visitor log, walked the garage patrol on a set round, and wrote incident notes for the supervisor when access was refused.
What to leave off
Leave off a license you do not hold, a site type you have not worked, and stories about force. Leave off "no incidents" as a boast. Leave off another guard's arrests written as yours.
Questions
- Should I say I am armed if I own a firearm but worked unarmed?
- No. Write the post you worked. Personal ownership is not a job credential and does not belong on the resume.
- How do I show reliability?
- The post, the shift, and the orders show it. A promise about perfect attendance is unnecessary.