How to write a security guard CV: a fictional example CV, sentences that describe patrol and access control work, a licence list and points to watch.
In a security guard CV, documents, working pattern and areas of responsibility should stand out. This fictional example describes shift, check and record duties in short, verifiable sentences.
This example is fictional; the names of people and organisations are not real.
SIA Licensed Security Officer
For three years I have worked in residential and commercial security. I keep to the shift pattern and record access control and incidents in an orderly way.
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Write your security licence and first aid certificate with expiry dates. Showing an invalid document as current causes problems.
State the environment: residential site, shopping centre, factory or hospital.
The incident log, visitor records and patrol notes show responsibility.
In one sentence say what you did in an emergency and whom you informed.
Adapt them to your own real work; never write something you did not do.
Choose only what is true for you.
Your security licence, first aid and anything else you really hold, with dates.
Write your training, your licence status and your wish to work in an orderly way; add any similar responsibility truthfully.
If the advert asks.