Bank Teller resume skills. The words recruiters search for.
The 16 skills and tools that come up in bank teller job posts, sorted by type, and how to put them in bullets a recruiter believes.
By Nazir Elmurodov, Founder, LaunchCV · Updated
/ The list
Keywords by type. Use only the ones that are true for you.
Hard skills · 12
- Cash handling (used in Ashley's sample resume)
- Cash drawer balancing (used in Ashley's sample resume)
- Vault management (used in Ashley's sample resume)
- Fraud prevention (used in Ashley's sample resume)
- Cross-selling (used in Ashley's sample resume)
- Product referrals (used in Ashley's sample resume)
- Account opening (used in Ashley's sample resume)
- BSA/AML (used in Ashley's sample resume)
- OFAC (used in Ashley's sample resume)
- Currency Transaction Reports (used in Ashley's sample resume)
- Regulation CC (used in Ashley's sample resume)
- Check cashing (used in Ashley's sample resume)
Tools & software · 2
- Banking software (used in Ashley's sample resume)
- 10-key (used in Ashley's sample resume)
Soft skills · 2
- Customer service (used in Ashley's sample resume)
- Attention to detail (used in Ashley's sample resume)
16 of 16 appear in Ashley's sample resume. See where
/ How to use them
Put keywords in bullets, not just in a skills list.
A skills list tells the software you have a skill. A bullet shows a recruiter what you did with it.
Check cashing
Weak: Skills: Check cashing
Strong: Process 100+ transactions a day: deposits, withdrawals, check cashing, loan payments and cashier's checks
Vault management
Weak: Skills: Vault management
Strong: Balanced my cash drawer with no outages in 22 of 24 months and help with vault management and ATM balancing
Product referrals
Weak: Skills: Product referrals
Strong: Made 120+ product referrals to bankers for checking accounts, CDs and loans — top referrer in the branch three quarters running
BSA/AML, OFAC, Currency Transaction Reports, Regulation CC
Weak: Skills: BSA/AML, OFAC, Currency Transaction Reports, Regulation CC
Strong: Complete Currency Transaction Reports and BSA/AML checks, screen against OFAC and place holds under Regulation CC
Strong bullets come from Ashley's sample resume and our bank teller bullet examples. Names and figures are illustrative.
/ Use them honestly
Keywords get you found. Proof gets you hired.
Mirror the job post's wording for skills you really have. If a bank teller post asks for Cash handling and you've used it, say Cash handling, in the post's spelling, and show where.
Mirror the job post's wording
If a bank teller post says "Cash drawer balancing", write "Cash drawer balancing", not a near-synonym — as long as it's accurate. Recruiters search for the post's exact term.
Only claim what you can back up
Expect to be asked about every term you list. If you couldn't spend two minutes on Cash handling — what you did and what changed — leave it out.
Show it in a bullet
A skills list says you know Check cashing. A bullet like the one under Lead Teller in the example above shows what you did with it.
No stuffing, no hidden text
Repeating a word or hiding keywords in white text doesn't make you a better match. A person reads the resume in the end.
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/ Questions
Bank Teller keywords, answered.
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How many keywords should a bank teller resume have?
There's no magic number. Ashley's sample resume uses all 16 terms on this page, because each one fit that job. Cover what your post asks for that you can back up, each where it fits; repeating a keyword doesn't help.
Should I copy keywords exactly from the job post?
Use the post's wording for skills you really have. If a bank teller post says "Cash handling", write "Cash handling" rather than a synonym, so a recruiter searching for that term finds you. Don't add skills you don't have just because the post lists them.
Where should keywords go on my resume?
In your summary, a short skills section and, above all, the bullets under each job, where you show what you did with the skill. In Ashley's sample, Check cashing shows up in a bullet under Lead Teller. Plain text in the body of the page is easiest for applicant tracking systems to read.
Which tools should I list on a bank teller resume?
The ones you've used and the post mentions. Common ones in bank teller posts include Banking software and 10-key. Name the tool in the bullet where you used it, not only in the skills list.
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