Office Manager Resume Example
A mid-level office manager in Raleigh, nine years in, running the office, budget and back-office work for a 60-person engineering firm.
A fictional resume written by our team. The person, employers and numbers are invented; the tools, licenses and schools are real.
Why it works
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“Office manager for a 60-person engineering firm with two offices. Own a $240,000 facilities and supply budget, run payroll and onboarding, and supervise a receptionist and an office assistant. Under budget 5 years running.”
Office size, the budget and the back-office work in the first lines. A hiring owner reads this asking what they could stop doing themselves.
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“Came in 6 to 11% under a $240,000 facilities and supply budget each year by rebidding cleaning and copier contracts”
Budget size, the result and how it happened. Money is usually the biggest thing an owner hands to an office manager.
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“Ran the 2024 move of 38 staff to a new 14,000 sq ft office over one weekend, 4% under the $95,000 move budget”
A project with a date, a size, a schedule and a cost against plan. An office move is a common test of the job.
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“Onboarded 41 hires with accounts, laptop and badge ready on day one, using a checklist shared with our IT provider”
Shows the work behind a good first day and the coordination with an outside vendor, without claiming to be the IT department.
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“Paid about 140 vendor invoices a month in QuickBooks Online, on time, taking every early-pay discount offered”
Volume, the system and a result. In a small office the bookkeeping side is a big part of the job and worth naming.
How it scored
We ran this example through the same free roast you can use, three times, and kept the middle result. The roast ranks a resume against a typical applicant pile and grades hard: even a resume with a number in nearly every bullet usually lands in the B range.
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Leslie Abernathy Office Manager, Professional Services Raleigh, NC | leslie.abernathy@example.com SUMMARY Office manager for a 60-person engineering firm with two offices. Own a $240,000 facilities and supply budget, run payroll and onboarding, and supervise a receptionist and an office assistant. Under budget 5 years running. EXPERIENCE Office Manager, Crabtree & Lowell Engineers | Jan 2021 - Present - Came in 6 to 11% under a $240,000 facilities and supply budget each year by rebidding cleaning and copier contracts - Ran the 2024 move of 38 staff to a new 14,000 sq ft office over one weekend, 4% under the $95,000 move budget - Process biweekly payroll for 60 employees in Gusto and ran 2 open enrollments, with no correction runs since 2022 - Onboarded 41 hires with accounts, laptop and badge ready on day one, using a checklist shared with our IT provider - Supervise a receptionist and an office assistant, both promoted from part-time Office Coordinator, Wake Pines Family Dentistry | Jun 2017 - Dec 2020 - Paid about 140 vendor invoices a month in QuickBooks Online, on time, taking every early-pay discount offered - Moved patient recall from postcards to Dentrix text reminders, raising confirmed visits from 82% to 93% - Kept schedules for 2 dentists and 3 hygienists, with open chair time under 5% most months EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS Certified Administrative Professional (CAP), IAAP, 2022 B.A. Communication, North Carolina State University, 2017 SKILLS Budget management, Vendor contracts, Gusto payroll, QuickBooks Online, Google Workspace admin, Onboarding, Kisi access control, Office moves
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