Esthetician Resume

What an esthetician resume must include

• Your license and the state that issued it, in the top third of the page. Spas verify licensure before they check references, and the license is the first thing a hiring manager looks for.
• Your service menu in specific terms: facial types, peel strengths, waxing areas, brow and lash services, and any advanced treatments you are certified to perform.
• Treatment volume: services per week, average ticket, and the mix of facials versus waxing, because a spa schedules by how quickly and how well you work.
• Retail and rebooking evidence, since an esthetician's value shows up twice — in products sold and in clients who book the next appointment before leaving.
• The booking and POS systems you know by name — Vagaro, Square Appointments, Booksy, Boulevard — because front-desk software is part of the daily job.
• Sanitation habits tied to state board rules: tool disinfection, single-use supplies, patch tests, and contraindication screening on intake forms.
• Esthetics program hours and advanced certifications, placed where a hiring manager will see them: chemical peel training, dermaplaning, lash extension work.

How to list a state esthetician license

• Give the license name and the issuing state — “Licensed Esthetician, State of Oregon” — plus the year it was issued. Keep the license number for the application form rather than the resume.
• State the hours completed in your esthetics program. Most states require between 600 and 750 hours, and the number tells a hiring manager how complete your training was.
• List advanced certifications under the license rather than in a separate block: chemical peel training, dermaplaning, lash extensions, oncology-trained facial work.
• If you hold licenses in more than one state, say so. “Licensed in Washington and Oregon” is a fact that matters to spas near a state line and to groups opening new locations.
• Add CPR and first aid training to the same block when both are current, since many spas require them and read credentials together.
• Never write a license you do not hold. If a license is pending, give the application date and the expected issue date instead of listing it as active.

Esthetician Resume Example

Example resume

A one-page, ATS-safe esthetician resume with the license, service menu, and rebooking numbers stated up front. This is the structure our builder produces — switch templates, export PDF or DOCX, no account needed.

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Recommended sections for an esthetician resume

• Summary — 2–3 lines with your license, years in the field, service focus, and one number: rebooking rate, services per week, or retail attachment.
• Licenses and certifications — license name, issuing state, year, program hours, advanced certifications, and CPR/first aid if current.
• Experience — reverse-chronological, with services performed, volume, retail results, rebooking, and the software you used.
• Skills — grouped by treatment type, hair removal, retail, sanitation, and booking systems.
• Education and training — the esthetics program, school, hours completed, and continuing education units.

Esthetician skills keywords

• Licensing and credentials: licensed esthetician, state board license, esthetics program hours, chemical peel certification, dermaplaning certification, CPR/first aid
• Treatments: custom facials, chemical peels, dermaplaning, microdermabrasion, extractions, LED therapy, brow shaping, lash and brow tinting
• Hair removal: soft wax, hard wax, brow waxing, bikini and Brazilian waxing, full-body waxing, patch testing, ingrown-hair care
• Retail and revenue: product recommendations, retail attachment per service, membership sales, package sales, rebooking rate, repeat clients
• Sanitation and safety: state board sanitation rules, tool disinfection, single-use supplies, contraindication screening, workstation turnover
• Booking and systems: Vagaro, Square Appointments, Booksy, Boulevard, POS transactions, client intake forms, scheduling software

ATS notes for esthetician resumes

• Keep the layout single-column, with no tables or text boxes. Spa chains and franchise groups increasingly screen with software, and a multi-column layout is the most common parsing failure.
• Write the license as plain text, never as a photo of the certificate. A scanner contributes nothing to a parser.
• Name your sections Experience, Licenses, Skills, Education — the exact words a spa posting and its parser both scan for.
• Give dates as month and year in one format, and include the license year so it parses as a date.
• Spell system names the way the vendor does: Vagaro, Square Appointments, Booksy. A misspelling can drop a keyword match.
• Put treatment and retail keywords in the experience bullets, not only in a skills block at the bottom, so the term appears where the reader is looking.

Common mistakes on esthetician resumes

• Leaving the license line without a state or year. “Licensed esthetician” alone gives a hiring manager nothing to verify.
• Writing a treatment menu instead of a work record. A list of services describes the spa; services per week and a rebooking rate describe the esthetician.
• Omitting retail numbers. Product sales and membership conversions are how a spa judges whether a chair pays for itself.
• Skipping software names. If you have used Vagaro or Booksy, say so, because the front desk trains on the system rather than on the concept.
• Ignoring sanitation language. State board compliance is a core part of the role, and leaving it off makes the service list look casual.
• Sending the same resume to a medical spa and a waxing studio. The treatments, vocabulary, and numbers each reader cares about are different.