Video editor resume example

What recruiters look for

• A reel link at the top: two minutes or less, best work first, with a credit list beside it.
• The kind of editing you do: narrative, documentary, branded, social, trailers. Producers hire for fit, not general ability.
• Software and workflow: Premiere Pro, Avid or Resolve, plus proxies, media management and turnovers to color and sound.
• Speed and volume: turnaround times, episodes per week, deliverables per campaign.
• Audience results: views, watch time, retention, subscriber growth. Especially important for digital and social roles.

Writing the summary

Say your years, the formats you cut and the clients or platforms you cut for. Add one line about how you work with producers, directors or the rest of post.

Bullet points that work

Strong lines for this role, beyond the ones in the example. Borrow the shape and put in your own numbers.

• Cut a 90-second launch film that reached 4 million views across platforms in its first week.
• Turned around next-day edits for a live event series: 12 recap videos in 4 days.
• Edited a feature documentary from 300 hours of footage to a 92-minute festival cut.
• Raised average watch time on a brand’s YouTube channel by 35% by restructuring video openings.
• Moved a team of 6 editors to a shared storage and proxy workflow, cutting export and upload waits by 70%.
• Delivered 40 versions of one campaign (lengths, ratios, languages) in a week using templated sequences.
• Built motion graphics packages in After Effects for 3 shows, reused across 150 episodes.
• Cut a 2-minute fundraising video that helped a nonprofit raise $210,000 at its annual gala.
• Assisted on 2 seasons of a network docuseries, managing 80 TB of media without a lost file.

Skills to list

Certifications and licenses worth listing

• Avid Certified User or Professional: Media Composer: useful for TV and film roles where Avid is standard.
• Adobe Certified Professional in Premiere Pro: a small plus for corporate and agency roles.
• Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve certification (editing or color): helps if you also grade your own work.

Length and format

One page for most editors. Put the reel link in the header, then experience, a short credits list and skills. Long credit lists can live on your website; keep the strongest four to eight on the resume.

Common mistakes

• No reel link, or a reel that runs five minutes before the best shot.
• Listing software without saying what you cut with it.
• Credit lists with no role. “Editor”, “additional editor” and “assistant editor” mean different things to a producer.
• Ignoring the post pipeline. Clean turnovers and media management are a big part of why editors get rehired.