Cashier CV Examples & Writing Guide

This sample is for a cashier with about five years of till work who started part-time on the front counter of a fast-food restaurant while at sixth form, moved to a supermarket and is now a head cashier who also covers the pharmacy till and the customer service desk. The name and shops are made up. Keep the structure and swap in your own type of shop, volumes and systems.

Store and checkout managers hire cashiers often and read fast. They are not looking for impressive; they are looking for safe. Four things decide it.

• Money accuracy. A till that balances is the whole job. "Till balanced to within £2 on every count for two years" says more than any adjective.
• Speed. Transactions per shift or scan rate. Supermarkets track items per minute; other retailers track transactions per hour. Either number shows you can keep a queue moving.
• Reliability. Cashiers who miss shifts leave tills closed. Attendance and willingness to work weekends, evenings and bank holidays are checked before anything else.
• The till. NCR, Toshiba, Square, Lightspeed, Epos Now, Oracle Micros or a chain's own system. A match cuts training time. Self-checkout monitoring and service-desk work (National Lottery, PayPoint) are separate skills worth naming.

“The CV tells me two things I need: has this person handled real money without shortages, and will they be here on Saturday at 8. If it says 'friendly and hardworking' and nothing about the till, it is a guess, and I would rather not guess.”

"How to write cashier duties on a CV" is one of the most common questions about this job. The answer: take each duty and add how much, how accurately or with what system. Here are the usual cashier duties rewritten as bullet points you can adapt to your shop.

Restaurant and fast-food cashiers: swap in orders taken per shift, order accuracy percentage and drive-thru times. Bank cashiers do a different job with their own page, but the till-accuracy language is the same.

Three lines under your name: years, type of shop, transactions and money per shift, your accuracy record and your availability. If this is your first job, write a two-line career objective that says what you can offer and when you can work.

Skills are one of the most searched topics for this job. Keep the list to 10–12 items, put the ones from the job advert first, and be specific: name the EPOS system and the payment types rather than writing "cash handling" on its own.

Till and money skills:

• Cash handling, counting back change, till counts and cashing up
• EPOS systems by name: NCR, Toshiba, Square, Lightspeed, Epos Now, Oracle Micros, Shopify POS, or the chain's own system
• Payment types: cash, debit and credit, contactless, mobile pay, gift cards, vouchers, store credit
• Refunds, exchanges, voids, price overrides and money-off coupons
• Self-checkout monitoring and assistance
• Age-restricted sales and Challenge 25 (alcohol, tobacco, knives, National Lottery)
• Scan rate or transactions per hour (give the number)
• National Lottery, PayPoint bill payments, mobile top-ups and other service-desk transactions
• Loss prevention basics: spotting counterfeit notes, refund fraud, sweethearting awareness

Customer and store skills:

• Handling price queries and upset customers calmly
• Upselling or loyalty card sign-ups if the store tracks them (give your rate)
• Packing help, produce codes (PLU), scanning accuracy
• Basic replenishment, facing up and keeping the checkout clean
• Availability: weekends, evenings, bank holidays, opening or closing shifts
• A second language, if you have one; many shops ask

Skip "friendly", "people skills" and "good with numbers". Show them instead: a Challenge 25 record, a scan rate, a balanced till.

Checkout work is one of the most common first jobs in the UK, and shops expect applicants with no work history. What the manager wants to see is that you can be trusted with money, that you can do mental arithmetic under pressure and that you will turn up when you are on the rota. You can prove all three without ever having had a payslip.

1. 1Put "Cashier" as the title in your header and a two-line career objective that states your availability. Availability is the first filter for a part-time hire.
2. 2Find every time you have handled money or served people: club treasurer, fundraising stalls, tuck shop, babysitting, a paper round, a school fair, a church cake sale. Each becomes a bullet point with a number (customers served, money handled).
3. 3Add an Education section with your school or college and your GCSE grades, achieved or predicted (English and maths at grade 4 or above matter most), plus any relevant subjects such as business. For a first job, good grades are worth listing.
4. 4List skills you already have: confident with touchscreens and apps, counting change, a second language, basic Excel or Google Sheets.
5. 5If you hold a food hygiene certificate or have done a free online customer service course, list it under Training. It shows initiative.
6. 6Have two referees ready (a teacher, coach or volunteer coordinator); "References available on request" is enough on the CV itself.
7. 7One page, as a PDF or through the online application form, with no photo and no date of birth.

• One page for almost every cashier CV. Many are half a page and that is fine; do not pad it.
• Order: header with the job title, personal statement or career objective, skills, experience, education, training. Skills go above experience because the EPOS and payment-type match is checked early.
• Reverse-chronological with months. Store managers want to see how long you stayed; "2023–2024" hides whether that was 2 months or 20.
• Show your availability in the personal statement or skills. It answers the first question the manager will ask.
• No photo, no date of birth, no marital status, no full street address. Town or city is enough.
• Most supermarket chains recruit through an online application form, so keep a plain-text copy of your bullet points to paste in. Take a printed copy if you apply in person; independent shops still hire that way.
• UK job adverts use cashier, checkout operator, checkout assistant, till operator and customer assistant for much the same role. Search for all of them and use the title the advert uses.

The cvplex ats-classic template used in the sample is a plain single column that prints cleanly and is read without errors by the applicant tracking systems large retailers use.

Supermarkets and large retail chains screen applications with software that matches words from the job advert. Copy the advert's wording into your skills and bullet points, then check the match with a free ATS checker.

• Job titles as advertised: cashier, checkout operator, checkout assistant, customer assistant, till operator, head cashier, checkout supervisor, sales assistant/cashier
• Money words: cash handling, EPOS, point of sale, till, cashing up, reconciliation, float, refunds, returns, overrides
• Service words: customer service, checkout, self-checkout, packing, loyalty scheme, upselling
• Compliance words: Challenge 25, age verification, ID check, loss prevention, PCI DSS
• Availability words if the advert has them: weekends, evenings, bank holidays, part-time, full-time, flexible hours