Babysitter resume: what to put on it, with a template

A babysitter resume is read by a parent on a phone, usually in a chat, usually in under a minute. That decides most of what goes on it. This guide covers what to put on one page and in what order, how to write babysitting or nanny work on a resume for some other job, and a template to copy. It is written for Australia, and none of it needs a designer.

Who reads a babysitter resume

Four kinds of reader, and they want different things. A parent about to book a Saturday night wants to know you are cleared, you know what to do if a child stops breathing, and you have done bedtime before. An agency wants the same, plus the paperwork in order. A childcare centre or after-school program is hiring for a job with a roster and an award, and reads it the way any employer does. And a shop or café manager hiring you for something else entirely wants to see that you held a responsibility and kept it.

The parent is the reader to write for. Get the page right for someone deciding in a hallway with a phone in one hand, and the other three can read it too.

What to put on it

The Check line does the most work. Every state and territory runs a check for people who work with children, under different names (Queensland calls it a Blue Card, the Northern Territory an Ochre Card), and a parent who has hired before will look for that line first. In NSW the number reads like WWC1234567E, and a parent checks it in a government form against your surname and date of birth. We have written up what they see when they do. In NSW you have to be 18 to hold one, so a younger NSW sitter says so on the line rather than leaving it blank; a parent would rather read "17, eligible from March" than wonder. Other states set their own rules, so check yours before writing the line.

First aid comes in two courses with almost the same name. HLTAID011 is the general workplace course; HLTAID012 is the same content with infant and child CPR, anaphylaxis and asthma added, and it is the one childcare centres require. Write the code and the date, and the date of your last CPR refresher, because the certificate is recognised for three years and the CPR part is expected yearly. A parent who does not know the codes will still notice a date from this year.

Experience is where most babysitter resumes go wrong, by describing the sitter instead of the work. "Responsible and reliable" tells a parent nothing they can check. "Two children aged 1 and 4, two evenings a week, dinner, bath and bed" tells them everything.

How to put babysitting on your resume

This is the section for a resume that is going somewhere else: a retail job, a university application, a role at an out-of-school-hours program. Babysitting goes on it as a job, because it is one. It has a title, dates, an employer and duties, and it needs to be written in that shape or it reads as a hobby.

Babysitter, private families, Inner West Sydney, 2024 to present

Regular evening and weekend care for three families, children aged 1 to 9. Dinner, bath and bedtime for two children under 5. School pick-up two afternoons a week for a 7 and a 9-year-old. Current Working With Children Check and HLTAID012 first aid.

Four things that example does on purpose. The employer is "private families" and a suburb or area, never a family's surname. The dates are there, so it counts as a period of work and not a one-off. Every line has a number in it: how many families, which ages, how many afternoons. And the paperwork sits at the end of the entry, where an employer who does not know what a Check is can still see a clearance and a certificate.

If you want a skills line, keep it to things the entry above has already shown: first aid, managing bedtime for more than one child, a car. Adjectives do not belong there.

If this is your first resume

Minding younger siblings, cousins or a neighbour's children is experience, and it goes on the page in the same shape: who for, how often, which ages, what an ordinary afternoon involved. So does anything where somebody trusted you with a group of children, such as coaching a junior sports team, helping at a holiday program, or a school role. What you are showing is the same thing a paid entry shows, that you have been left in charge and it went fine. Our guide on becoming a babysitter covers what to do before the first paid booking, and what to charge has the number for the rate line.

How to put nanny work on your resume

Nanny work is employment, and it should look like it. Where babysitting can be grouped ("private families, 2024 to present"), each nanny role gets its own entry: the title, the period, the hours a week, whether it was live-in, and what the role held beyond care. School runs, meals, a child's activities and appointments, and the light housework that comes with children (their laundry, their rooms) all belong in it. Housework for the household does not, and if you were asked to do it, leaving it off is the honest description of a nanny job.

Nanny, private family, Newcastle, February 2023 to December 2025

Sole care of two children, aged 2 and 5 when I started, 30 hours a week over four days. School and preschool runs, all meals, swimming and speech therapy appointments, the children's laundry. Left when the younger child started school. Referee: the parent, by arrangement.

The length of each role is what a family reads. Three years with one family says more than any sentence you could write about yourself, and a role that ended because the children grew up should say so, because that is the ending a family hopes for. If you moved from babysitting into a regular role with the same family, write the two as separate entries with separate dates; the difference between them matters in NSW, and a family hiring a nanny is checking that you know it. What a family owes a nanny, and what the award floor is, is in our nanny rates guide.

What to leave off

An Australian resume carries no photo, no date of birth and no marital status, and a babysitter resume is no different. Your profile has the photo. Leave off your street address (the suburb is enough), the paragraph of objectives at the top, any list of adjectives, and school results unless the job asks for them. A parent who has to scroll past a career statement to find your Check number has already formed a view.

One page. If it runs to two, the second page is the thing being cut, not the margins.

A template to copy

Your name
Suburb · phone · email

Working With Children Check WWC1234567E, expires 2030
First aid HLTAID012, March 2026 · CPR March 2026
Driver's licence full, own car

Experience

Babysitter, private families, your suburb, 2024 to present
Which ages, how often, what an evening involved. One number in every sentence.

Nanny, private family, your town, dates
Hours a week, ages at the start, the shape of the role, why it ended.

Available Friday and Saturday evenings, Wednesday afternoons, school holidays

Referees
Name, how they know you, the number they gave you for this. Two of them.

Fill it in with your own numbers and export it as a PDF. Plain text on a white page is the right look; a parent is reading for facts, and a template with columns and icons hides them.

What happens to it on AusBabysitters

You upload the PDF from your profile, and it is checked before it goes live, like everything on the site. Your public profile then says one thing, "Has a resume to share when asked", and nothing about what is in it. A family cannot open it from your profile. When one asks in chat, you share it from the conversation, and from then on they can read the current version, so replacing it later updates what they see.

Two things to know before you upload. Once a family has opened it, they can save it, and removing the resume from your profile stops the link but not a copy already saved, which is one more reason to keep family details off it. And a resume is not verification: the verified badge on a profile means we have checked ID and a Working With Children Check ourselves, and that is all it means; a line on a PDF does not earn it. The rate on your profile is yours as well: we never take a cut of what a family pays you.

Where these facts come from

The first aid course codes are the national training package's; the three-year certificate and the yearly CPR refresher are what employers and childcare regulators ask for, not a rule written into the certificate. The Working With Children Check rules and the number format are the NSW Office of the Children's Guardian's, as published in August 2026; other states run their own schemes under their own names. The resume conventions (no photo, no date of birth, one page) are what Australian employers and agencies ask for rather than a rule anyone enforces. How a resume behaves on this site is how it works as of August 2026. None of this is legal advice, and no format here is required to list.