Bricklayer CV example
Construction hires on project type, the trades you hold and your card: no CSCS card, no site access.
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- Sector
- Trades and services
- Template used
- Oslo
- ATS level
- ATS verified
- ATS keywords
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How the CV looks once laid out
The same example content, laid out in the recommended template: single column, selectable text and no tables or graphics that break automated parsing.
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Megan Lewis
Bricklayer, new build and refurbishment, CSCS carded
megan.lewis@mail.com · 07700 900456 · Manchester · linkedin.com/in/megan
Professional summary
Bricklayer with twelve years across residential new build and full refurbishment. I've built internal walls on 140 homes, work in blockwork, screeds, rendering and damp proofing, and hold a current CSCS card with trade health and safety training.
Experience
Bricklayer
Employer name · City · 2019 – Present
- Built internal walls and laid floors across 140 new-build homes
- Completed 18 full house refurbishments within contracted programme
- Cut material waste 15% by setting out cuts before each work section
Education
Qualification or certificate for the role
Training centre · Year
Skills
- Brick and blockworkAdvanced
- Floor and wall tilingAdvanced
- Rendering and finishesAdvanced
- Damp proofingAdvanced
- Setting out and drawingsAdvanced
- Site health and safetyAdvanced
Languages
- EnglishNative
- SpanishB2
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Professional headline
This is the line that decides whether they keep reading: a specific role and years of experience, never an adjective.
Bricklayer, new build and refurbishment, CSCS carded
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Example professional summary
Three or four sentences with your specialism, one figure and your goal. It sits right under the headline.
Bricklayer with twelve years across residential new build and full refurbishment. I've built internal walls on 140 homes, work in blockwork, screeds, rendering and damp proofing, and hold a current CSCS card with trade health and safety training.
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Achievements that work in this role
Past-tense verb, what you did, measurable result. Three to five per role, strongest first.
- 01Built internal walls and laid floors across 140 new-build homes
- 02Completed 18 full house refurbishments within contracted programme
- 03Cut material waste 15% by setting out cuts before each work section
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Skills to include
Written as plain text: rating bars are invisible to automated filters.
- Brick and blockwork
- Floor and wall tiling
- Rendering and finishes
- Damp proofing
- Setting out and drawings
- Site health and safety
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ATS keywords
The terms filters search for in this role. Place them inside your experience, not in a list at the end.
- bricklayer
- new build
- refurbishment
- blockwork
- CSCS
Work them naturally into your experience — these are the terms screening software scans for.
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Tips for this CV
What separates a CV for this trade from a generic one.
- 01
Put your CSCS card and safety training with expiry at the top — it's site access.
- 02
Separate new build from refurbishment and give volume in homes, metres or programme.
- 03
List each trade skill individually; filters search the exact term.
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What a bricklayer CV is
Short definition, ready to quote.
A bricklayer CV is the one or two page document used to apply for a bricklayer role in trades and services: it brings together the professional headline, the profile summary, experience with measurable results and the competencies the trade expects you to evidence, such as Brick and blockwork and Floor and wall tiling. Unlike a generic CV, it is ordered around what the applicant tracking system and the hiring manager look for in a bricklayer: the words used in the advert and the numbers of the actual job.
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Keywords and where to place them
Each term works best in a specific place in the document. Repeating them all at the end scores nothing.
| Keyword | Where to place it |
|---|---|
| bricklayer | In the professional headline |
| new build | In the profile summary |
| refurbishment | Inside an achievement with a figure |
| blockwork | In the skills list |
| CSCS | In training or certifications |
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How this bricklayer CV gets through the filters
What the example above does right, point by point.
- The headline reads «Bricklayer, new build and refurbishment, CSCS carded»: the job title (bricklayer) appears literally in the first line, not as a creative synonym.
- The trade's keywords —bricklayer, new build, refurbishment— sit inside the experience and summary, where the filter reads them in context.
- Every achievement carries its figure. «Built internal walls and laid floors across 140 new-build homes» is the pattern to copy: volume, timeframe and result.
- Skills such as Brick and blockwork, Floor and wall tiling, Rendering and finishes are written as plain text, never as rating bars or stars, which no parser can read.
- The Oslo template is single-column and rated ATS verified, so the sections come out in order.
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What hiring managers look for in a bricklayer
The three points that separate two candidates in this trade.
Type of site and work
New build, full refurbishment, façade repair or planned maintenance. Give the site type, the trade package you deliver and whether you work day rate or price work.
Packages you can run
Brick and block, tiling, rendering, formwork, drylining or waterproofing. Name your packages: each is a different job on site.
Safety and site access
A current site card with the hours for your trade, working at height, scaffold awareness and access platform tickets — each with the year.
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Common mistakes on a bricklayer CV
The ones that repeat in this role, each with its fix.
- 01
Writing “builder” with no grade
Labourer, improver or skilled tradesperson determines pay and the work you are given. Without it a site manager can't place you.
- 02
No metres or output
Square metres tiled per day, metres of blockwork laid, units handed over. Output is a site manager's language and almost nobody writes it.
- 03
Leaving out setting out
Setting out with a laser level, reading dimensions and checking plumb and level is what marks a skilled tradesperson. Say it explicitly.
- 04
Not listing plant
Mixer, disc cutter, breaker, tower scaffold, props and formwork. It is technical detail that measures your autonomy on site.
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What a bricklayer earns
So you can tell whether an advert is at market rate before applying.
- Usual range
- Typically £30,000-£45,000 a year, with price work and travel allowances above that
- What moves the figure
- Grade sets the base; price work and away-from-home allowances move the total most.
- Where the figure comes from
- Ranges observed in UK construction adverts through 2026.
Frequently asked
Questions about a bricklayer CV
- What do I need to get on site?
- A current site card with the training for your trade, plus any site-specific induction. It is a literal access filter.
- How do I prove skilled grade?
- Complete packages delivered unsupervised, setting out, plumb and level control and output figures. Add whether you ran a labourer or a gang.
- Does private refurbishment work count?
- Yes, with specifics: number of full refurbishments, metres, deadlines met and whether you coordinated other trades.
- Are plant tickets worth having?
- Very much: telehandler, mini digger, access platform or a light truck licence widen the sites you can work on and usually pay a premium.
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