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A bartender CV should show how busy your bar is, what you can make (cask, cocktails, coffee), the jobs you are trusted with (cellar, cashing up, closing) and how you deal with customers who have had enough. If this is your first bar job, lead with any customer service.

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Kieran Docherty
Bartender

Profile

Bartender with four years in a busy city-centre cocktail bar and a traditional pub, serving up to 300 customers on a Saturday night. Makes a 20-cocktail menu from memory, looks after the cellar and keeps the bar clean and stocked through the rush. Calm and firm with customers who have had too much. Looking for a senior bartender or bar supervisor role.

Experience

Bartender The Copper Still, Glasgow · 2023–present

Serve up to 300 customers a night at weekends on a four-person bar, with drinks out in under three minutes.

Make the 20-cocktail menu and develop two new serves each season with the bar manager.

Change kegs, clean the lines weekly and rotate stock in the cellar.

Cash up, complete the till and refusals logs and close the bar as keyholder twice a week.

Refuse service calmly and ask door staff for help when needed.

Bar Staff The Anchor Inn, Paisley · 2022–2023

Pulled pints, served food orders and collected glasses in a busy local pub.

Training

Responsible alcohol service training 2024

Level 2 Food Hygiene 2023

National 5s including English and Maths 2021

Fictional example for a bartender. Every person and employer in it is invented. Replace every detail with your own.

What bars look for, and where this CV shows it

The job asks you toWhere this CV shows it
Greet customers and create a welcoming atmosphereUp to 300 customers a night at weekends
Take orders and handle cash and card paymentsCashing up and the till log
Serve drinks at the bar or at the tableA 20-cocktail menu and drinks out in under three minutes
Keep the bar area clean and well stockedCellar work, line cleaning and stock rotation
Give advice on drinks to suit customers' tastesDeveloping new serves with the bar manager
Collect glasses and wash upPub work at The Anchor Inn

The left column follows the National Careers Service job profile for a bar person, also called a bartender.

Inside this example
  • Profile: 62 words here
  • Experience: 111 words here
  • Training: 20 words here
  • Skills: 22 words here

How to write yours

01

Say how busy it gets

Customers a night and the size of the bar team tell a manager you can handle a rush.

02

Name what you can make

Cocktails, cask ale, wine or coffee: list the drinks your next bar sells.

03

Show you can be trusted

Cellar work, cashing up and keyholding are what lead to a supervisor's job.

04

Mention responsible serving

Refusing service calmly matters to every licensed bar; one line shows you can do it.

Rules and checks for a bar CV

  • Age. You need to be over 18 to sell alcohol (National Careers Service), so a bar job is usually your first job after 18.
  • Training. Give any responsible alcohol service or food hygiene training with its year.
  • Availability. Late nights and weekends decide bar rotas; say when you can work.

One page is enough for a bar CV. Keep the volume, drinks and trusted jobs in the first half.

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