Content Writer resume example

What to put in the summary

Say what you write (long-form, product, technical), for whom, and the areas you know. Show your own voice here: the summary is a writing sample. Link two or three published pieces rather than a folder of everything.

Content writer for software and personal finance brands, four years writing guides, case studies and email series. I interview the people who know the subject and write for the reader who has five minutes. Selected clips linked above.

Sample bullets with numbers

Pair writing output with a measure of use: traffic, conversion, sales use, or reader replies. Link the pieces you are proudest of.

• Wrote 60+ long-form guides that now bring about 40% of the company blog’s organic traffic, growing from 12,000 to 31,000 monthly visits.
• Produced eight customer case studies, each interviewed and approved by the client; sales uses them in around a third of late-stage deals.
• Wrote and edited a 12-part onboarding email series, lifting day-30 activation by 5 points.
• Set up a style guide and editing checklist shared with four freelancers, reducing edit rounds from three to one.
• Rewrote product pages for clarity, reducing exit rate on the pricing page by 9% over two months.
• Edited 25 guest posts a quarter, rejecting about half for accuracy or fit.

These numbers are invented to show the shape of a good bullet. Use your own, and leave a number out rather than guess.

Key skills to list

• Long-form writing
• Interviewing
• SEO writing
• Editing
• Case studies
• Email copy
• Style guides
• CMS (WordPress)
• Research
• AP Style

Show range in the kind of writing (guides, case studies, email), plus the subjects you can write on without a long ramp-up.

Common mistakes

1. 1Listing “excellent communication skills”. Your resume is the sample.
2. 2Attaching no clips or links.
3. 3Counting words or number of posts rather than results.
4. 4Typos or inconsistent style, which is fatal for this role.

A layout that suits this resume

Editorial’s serif type and relaxed spacing suit a writer, and the single column keeps the page easy to read in any system. See the Editorial template, or compare all 22 layouts.