
SAMPLE RESUME FOR A 
RETAIL SALES ASSOCIATE POSITION 
 
The highlighted areas are skills or abilities that would be attractive to a recruiter 
looking to fill a Retail Sales Associate position.  
 
 
 
Sue Smith 
123 Anywhere Street 
Telecom, USA 
 
EXPERIENCE 
 
5/06 – present 
Lead Teller – Provide training and employee reports for tellers.  Assist with 
transactions, and procedures.  Also performed monthly review on tellers and 
provide training in sales. 
 
7/05 – 4/06 
Sales Representative 
Sell wireless services and products.  Always exceed sales quota.  I was responsible 
for any planograms that the store needed charged.  Daily count of inventory and 
sales totals.  Awards for most improved sales, top sales in region and also won 
many contests throughout region.   
 
9/00 – 1/03 
Administrative Assistant 
Answering incoming calls from other local exchange carriers. Data entry of orders 
for many different services including ISDN BRI/PRI, Centranet, Lineshare project, 
and many other complex services. I also trained co workers and managers on order 
writing and data entry of new products and services. 
 
EDUCATION 
Bachelor of Arts with minor in Psychology 
 
SKILLS 
Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint 
Lotus Notes 
Outlook Express 
Quicken Books