Is this you? Are you currently applying for a position that allows you to direct, motivate and oversee the daily operations of logistics and transportation systems in a fast-paced industry that is constantly evolving?
Are you ready to take your logistics resume to the next level? Ready to impress your potential employer with the most effective, concise, and powerful statement of your career ambitions?
This guide will help you make sure that happens. Let’s get started.
Methodology
To build our logistics resume guide, we analyzed 174 logistics resumes and 9 logistics job postings using machine learning to identify the most common elements of good logistics resumes and the things employers ask for most often when hiring.
We’ve also built a database of over 600,000 publicly available resumes from different professions & analyzed how the best resumes were written.
It’s always good to make your resume unique and to follow best practices. This guide will help you understand what you need to include to make it competitive based on a large set of data from real resumes and real job listings.
You can read about our methodology in more detail here.
Logistics resume objective data + logistics objective examples
Do logistics’s need to include an objective on their resume?
The general advice for resume objectives and professional summaries is still true (read our guide on resume objectives), but here’s what the data says for logistics’s specifically:
- 29% of logistics’s included an objective section
- 29% of logistics’s included a professional summary
- 48% of logistics’s included neither an objective nor a summary
Logistics resume objective examples
Productive and diligent logistics manager able to win independently or collaboratively team. Looking to join a reputable company as a operations manager to help meet revenue benchmarks.
To secure a position as a logistics associate in an organization that will enable me to leverage my skills and experience, contribute to an important mission, and be part of a team.
Experienced logistics professional and admin offering solid work ethic, and stable background in diverse transportation roles. Knowledgeable about trucks and trailers, including loading, unloading and securing different types of products. Well-coordinated in handling all customer, documentation and business needs.
OSHA certified Safety, Health & Environmental Professional (SHEP), Military Veteran, and more than 20 years of leadership experience. Extensive knowledge in leadership, safety, logistics, employee training programs. Genuine passion for developing junior and senior leaders through shared knowledge and experience.
Skills for logistics resumes
The best skills to put on any resume will be the ones most relevant to the job, but based on our analysis, these skills are among the most common on logistics resumes, which means they can be a strong foundation and are probably good to list on yours (if you’ve got them).
To learn more about how to fully leverage your skills section, check out our guide to resume skills.
*Note: our machine learning essentially picks up common words and phrases in skill sections, so you may have to extrapolate what skills are needed based on your own professional experience.
Most common logistics resume skills
Most common hard skills for logistics resumes: management, operations, marketing, purchasing, and problem-solving.
Most common soft skills for logistics resumes: communication skills, decision-making skills, leadership skills, problem-solving skills, and time-management skills.
Other good logistics resume skills
- Numerical and analytical skills
- Invoice development
- Customs documentation
- Inventory management software
- Distribution management
- Quality assurance
- Attention to detail
- Truck loading/unloading
- Tractor-trailer traffic coordination
- Forklift maintenance
- Purchase ordering
- Attention to detail
- problem solving
- Third-party logistics
- Transportation management
- Continuous improvement
Logistics skills section examples
Note: we formatted all these examples the same way here for the sake of simplicity, but you can read about skills section formatting in our guide to resume formatting.
Logistics skills example 1
Numerical and analytical skills | management | customs documentation | inventory management software | operations | marketing| distribution management
Logistics skills example 2
Invoice development | communication skills | quality assurance | decision-making skills | attention to detail | leadership skills | truck loading/unloading
Logistics skills example 3
Third-party logistics | tractor-trailer traffic coordination | time-management skills | problem-solving skills | purchase ordering | decision-making skills | attention to detail
Work experience for logistics resumes
Work experience is perhaps the most important part of any resume, and it’s no different for logistics resumes.
For more detailed info on work experience sections specifically, check out our guide for writing a good work experience resume section and our guide for building a resume with no experience.
In general, when applying for logistics jobs, you want to highlight the experience most relevant to each specific position. Here are a few samples.
Logistics work experience examples
WORK EXPERIENCE
Sr. Associate Logistics
Hooli, 2021-2022
Responsibilities
- Analyze financial statements, sales reports, and other performance indicators
- Appoint department heads and managers
- Consult with other executives, staff, and board members about general operations
- Direct and oversee an organization’s financial and budgetary activities
- Establish and carry out departmental or organizational goals, policies, and procedures
WORK EXPERIENCE
Associate Logistics
Mystery Meats Co., 2016-2022
Responsibilities
- Identify places to cut costs and to improve performance, policies, and programs
- Manage general activities related to making products and providing services
- Overseeing all supply chain operations.
- Organizing and managing inventory, storage, and transportation.
- Analyzing and optimizing logistical procedures.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Logistics Intern
Obelus Concepts, 2013-2012
Responsibilities
- Reviewing, preparing, and routing purchase orders.
- Ensuring the safe and timely pick-up and delivery of shipments.
- Monitoring shipments, costs, timelines, and productivity.
- Liaising and negotiating with suppliers and retailers.
- Addressing and resolving shipment and inventory issues.
Education for logistics resumes
Unless you’re applying for academic positions or don’t have any work experience, your work history will be more important than your education.
Still, education is usually listed on resumes, and often, logistics job postings list a minimum education requirement.
See our guide for education on resumes for more detailed information.
Data from our sample of 174 logistics resumes
- 4% logistics resumes listed an associate’s degree
- 56% logistics resumes listed a bachelor’s degree
- 33% logistics resumes included a masters degree
- 0% logistics resumes mentioned a doctoral degree
Logistics resume education examples
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts
Mt. Diablo Adult Education, 2021
Awards & Honors
- Valedictorian
- The Honor Society
- Foreign Language Award
EDUCATION
Associate of Applied Arts
Lakeland University, 2016
Certifications for logistics resumes
Not every job requires certifications, but certifications can almost always improve your odds of landing an interview, and there certifications for (or related to) nearly all jobs.
In fact, we wrote a playbook for listing certifications on resumes.
Here are a few certifications that can help logistics’s specifically, according to CareerOneStop.
Logistics certification examples
CERTIFICATIONS
Certified Supply Chain Professional
Association for Supply Chain Management, 2021
SAP Certified Application Associate – Supplier Relationship Management 7.2
SAP America, Inc., 2016
CERTIFICATIONS
Certified Supply Chain Professional, SAP Certified Application Associate – Supplier Relationship Management 7.2
Logistics resume action verbs
After analyzing over 600,000 resumes, we built a huge library of of action verbs and cross-referenced it with our sample of 174 logistics resumes and job postings to find which action verbs are most commonly used by logistics’s and logistics employers.
The most common action verbs on logistics resumes are: process, develop, perform, lead, and prepare.
The most common action verbs on logistics job postings are: increase, build, document, oversee, and track.
Other action verbs for logistics resumes:
- Assist
- Create
- Improve
- Direct
- Field
- Program
- Design
- Establish
- Supervise
- Coordinate
- Assist
- Create
- Improve
- Direct
- Field
Full logistics resume example
We created a couple complete logistics resume examples to help you see how all this fits together. Yours can be better than this. This is just a basic illustration.
To see “perfect” examples, check out our showcase of resume examples.
Logistics resume example
Jessica Villegas
Logistics
4070 Davis Street, Augusta, GA
Transportation and Logistics manager
WORK EXPERIENCE
Sr. Associate Logistics
Hooli, 2021-2022
Responsibilities
- Ensure all chemicals are properly stored and distributed, and are removed from the system and properly disposed of when expired.
- Utilized Oracle to prepare and maintain records and reports of inventories, fabricated parts and the costs associated, and shortages.
- Ensure that parts have necessary trace/certification documents (8130-3 Form, Certificate of Conformance to Supplier.
- Retrieve parts, attach certification documents, and email to internal customer for transmission to external customer (s) / buyer (s) RFQ.
Associate Logistics
Mystery Meats Co., 2016-2022
Responsibilities
- Recorded information, shortages and discrepancies to keep records current and accurate in Oracle.
- Coordinated shipping requests for expedited delivery and tracked shipments to inform customer of delivery.
- Received and distributed items, by completely auditing each item, updating the system catalogue.
- Planning and Design liaison, scheduling and processing the installation of electric services.
Logistics Intern
Obelus Concepts, 2013-2016
Responsibilities
- Gathered customer project data such as load sheets, proof of ownership and site plans.
- Analyzed data provided and distributed reports to management and electrical line workers.
- Accounts receivable for residential and commercial accounts (all successfully balanced).
- Collaborate with center organic business offices to determine best way forward or if need be setup depot activities
CERTIFICATIONS
APICS Certified in Production and Inventory Management
APICS, 2021
APICS Supply Chain Operations Reference
APICS, 2016
SKILLS
Numerical and analytical skills | distribution management | marketing | leadership skills | communication skills | nursing | tractor-trailer traffic coordination
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts
Mt. Diablo Adult Education, 2021
Associate of Applied Arts
Lakeland University, 2016
What experts say about logistics resumes
Before we wrap it up, we want to leave you with some advice from other experts we admire.
“Remove bottlenecks from your resume. Cut out information that is not adding value to your potential employer, remove empty spaces that cost important real estate and delete fancy elements that don’t add to your skillset.” – How to Write a Supply Chain & Logistics Resume [With Examples]
” Dive deep into the results you’ve generated followed by how you have generated them. Example: Reduced vendor costs by 10% upon refining the negotiation process.” – How to Write a Supply Chain & Logistics Resume [With Examples]
” Supply chain is all about adding value to an organization. Employers want to know what did you do for the companies you’ve worked at. You want to describe what you did but also add any accomplishments and quantify the results.” – Top 5 Tips to Optimize Your Supply Chain Resume | SCM Talent Group
Want help with your logistics resume?
The best part of our guide to creating a logistics resume is that we went through it with a fine-toothed comb. We wanted to make sure that every aspect of our guide would be top-notch, so if there’s anything that you think could be improved or changed, let us know!
