Cleaner CV example to fill in
For a cleaning job, employers want to know which settings you have worked in, which machines you can use and whether they can count on you for hours and working alone. This cleaner CV example tells them on one page. It works for cleaning companies, hotels, offices and healthcare settings: open it in the editor and make it yours.
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In this example
- Settings: offices, residential blocks, hotels, healthcare.
- The machines and procedures you know.
- The hours you can work and how independently.
What to write in a cleaner CV
Your profile
Two or three sentences on where you have worked and what you can do on your own. Cleaning companies above all want people they can rely on: show it with facts.
GenericHard-working, reliable and conscientious.
SpecificCleaner with seven years in offices and healthcare settings. I work independently with scrubber dryers and rotary machines and follow infection control procedures.
Experience
For each job give the company or site, the town, the dates and the settings: offices, residential blocks, schools, hotels, hospitals, factories. Then the numbers: square metres, floors, rooms, and whether you worked alone or led a team. Domestic work for private households counts too.
DutyOffice cleaning.
With numbersI clean three floors of offices on my own, about 1,200 m², from 6 to 9 in the morning.
Skills to include
- Routine and deep cleaning, windows, disinfection.
- Machines: scrubber dryers, rotary floor machines, wet vacuums.
- Safe use of chemicals and protective equipment.
- Procedures for healthcare and food settings, if you know them.
- Servicing rooms, if you have worked in hotels.
Hours and travel
Cleaning often happens early in the morning or in the evening, sometimes across several sites. Say in one line which hours you can work and whether you drive: it is one of the first questions you will be asked.
Frequently asked questions
I’ve only worked for private households: should I include it?
Yes, it is real experience. Write «domestic cleaner for private households» with the dates, the area and your tasks, without the families’ names.
Do I need a certificate?
Usually not, but health and safety or infection control courses are a plus, especially for hospitals and food factories. Add them with the year.
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