Model Resume Examples: what a hiring manager reads first
Build a Model Resume Agencies and Clients Take Seriously
By Mustafa Tarabya, founder of CVBooster · Published · Updated
Model resume examples for modeling work, from a first resume with no agency to a full CV, with statistics, runway, campaign credits and comp card rules.
Sample resumes for a model
The same model content laid out in three CVBooster templates, so you can see what the finished document looks like before you write a word.
Example Model summary
Fashion and commercial model with runway, editorial and campaign credits across two markets and steady e commerce bookings. Signed with an agency board and experienced with long studio calls, fittings and quick changes. Holds a valid passport and works in two languages, which makes cross market bookings straightforward. Known for keeping the same energy in the final hour of a shoot as in the first.
Skills to list on a Model resume
- Runway walk
- Editorial posing
- Commercial posing
- Fit modeling
- Showroom modeling
- Lookbook and catalog work
- Movement direction
- Quick changes
- Fittings and alterations input
- On set professionalism
- Casting and go see preparation
- Client communication
- Travel readiness
What actually gets this resume read
- Keep statistics in one clean block at the top: height, bust, waist, hips, shoe, dress size, hair and eye color.
- List work by category with runway, editorial, campaign, commercial and fit modeling as separate groups.
- Credit the publication or the client rather than the photographer alone, because bookers scan for brand names.
- Note your markets and travel readiness, since agencies place models against city boards and passport status.
- Keep the portfolio and comp card as links, and never paste raw images into a document a booker opens on a phone.
- Add practical skills such as horse riding, swimming, sports or driving, because commercial casting briefs ask for them.
How to write a model resume
A booker reads a model resume for three things in a fixed order: the statistics, the category of work, and the client names. The statistics decide whether you fit the sample sizes a client is producing. The category decides which board you sit on. The client names decide how much a booker can charge for you. Everything else on the page is supporting material, and most of it can be cut.
The resume is also not the portfolio. Images belong in the book and on the comp card, which travel as links. A document stuffed with pasted photographs opens slowly on the phone a booker is actually using between castings, and slow files get closed.
This guide covers the statistics block, how to group runway, editorial, campaign, commercial and fit work, what to credit when a shoot was unbranded, the practical lines about markets, travel and skills that decide whether you are castable for a given brief, a short resume for modeling before an agency signs you, and a complete CV for modeling that works for UK agencies as well as US boards.
Format: one page, statistics at the top, links not images
One page. A clean statistics block sits directly under your name: height, bust, waist, hips, shoe, dress or suit size, hair color and eye color. Keep the figures current and truthful, because a fitting exposes an inaccurate measurement within a minute and the rest of the booking becomes awkward.
Add links rather than images: portfolio, comp card, agency profile and a short walking clip if you do runway. A booker who wants pictures already knows where to click, and the document exists to be readable at a glance.
- Header: name, statistics block, city and markets, agency and booker contact, portfolio links.
- Work grouped by category: runway, editorial, campaign and advertising, commercial and catalog, fit.
- A short skills line covering sports, driving, dance, riding and languages.
- Travel readiness and passport or work authorization status, stated plainly in one line.
Summary: category, markets and the way you work on set
Two or three lines that say what kind of model you are and where you work. Fashion, commercial, fit and specialty are different markets with different bodies of work, and a booker placing you against a city board needs the category before anything else.
Then name the on set behavior that clients rebook for: holding pace and posture through a long e commerce day, taking direction from a stylist without losing energy, handling quick changes backstage without panic. Reliability is the part of this job that never appears in the pictures.
Work history: credit the client, not only the photographer
Under runway, give the number of shows and the seasons, and note opening or closing looks if you have walked them. Under editorial, name the publication. Under campaign, name the brand and whether the usage was print, out of home or digital. A booker is scanning for names they can quote to the next client.
For e commerce and catalog days, the honest measure is looks per day and how many days you held the pace. That number tells a producer whether you can carry a full studio schedule, and it is the single most useful figure a commercial model can put on a page.
Fit modeling deserves its own block. Working with a pattern team across product development cycles is a technical role that pays differently and hires differently, and it signals that you can give useful feedback on fit rather than only stand still.
When the work was unbranded or under embargo
Plenty of good jobs cannot be named. Describe the category, the market and the usage instead: a national print campaign for a home goods retailer, an out of home campaign in one region, a lookbook for an independent label. That gives a booker the shape of the work without breaking a confidentiality clause.
Never credit a photographer alone in place of a client. It reads as a test shoot, and test shoots belong in the book rather than in the credit list.
Skills, markets and the details that make you bookable
Commercial briefs ask for specific abilities, so list the ones you can genuinely do on camera: swimming, horse riding, tennis, yoga, dance forms, roller skating, driving a manual transmission. Languages matter for cross market bookings and for narration or presenter work that occasionally comes with a campaign.
Say which markets you work in and whether you can travel at short notice. A booker deciding between two similar models will pick the one whose passport, work authorization and availability are already answered on the page.
A resume for modeling at the start, before an agency signs you, uses the same order with smaller sections. An invented example: Jade Moreno, Model, freelance, own phone and email, statistics line, portfolio link. Runway: two shows for a local design school graduate collection. Commercial: one lookbook day for a boutique and a studio day for a regional salon campaign. Portfolio: three test shoots, listed as tests. Skills: dance, swimming, valid passport. That is a short page, and a short honest page is what a scout expects at this stage.
CV for modeling: one complete page, start to finish
A CV for modeling and a model resume are the same document under two names: UK agencies and clients say CV, US boards say resume. The content does not change. What changes is the detail a London booker expects: height and measurements in both metric and feet and inches, UK dress and shoe sizes, and a line on the right to work in the UK. The sample below is invented; copy the order, not the credits.
Header: Amara Okonkwo, Model, represented by a London agency with the booker name and agency phone. Statistics on one line: height 5 ft 10 in (178 cm), bust 32 in, waist 24 in, hips 35 in, UK dress 8, UK shoe 6, hair dark brown, eyes brown. Links to the portfolio, the digital comp card and a short walking clip.
- Summary: fashion and commercial model with runway, lookbook and e commerce credits, comfortable on studio days of 60 looks and with quick changes backstage, based in London and available for travel across Europe.
- Runway: two seasons of London shows for emerging designers, including one closing look, and a graduate fashion week show for a design school.
- Editorial: two fashion stories for an independent print magazine and one online beauty story, credited to the publication.
- Commercial and e commerce: regular studio days for an online fashion retailer and a lookbook for an independent knitwear label.
- Fit: sample sessions for a womenswear brand during one product development cycle, giving feedback on fit at each round.
- Skills and details: swimming, yoga, conversational French, full UK driving license, right to work in the UK, passport valid for travel.
Model resume summary examples
Newly signed
Newly signed fashion and commercial model with lookbook and catalog credits for independent labels. Comfortable on studio days of 60 looks, takes direction from photographers and stylists, and holds a steady runway walk. Valid passport, available for travel at short notice, and works in two languages.
Two markets, steady bookings
Fashion and commercial model with runway, editorial and campaign credits across two markets and steady e commerce bookings. Walked 18 shows over two seasonal fashion weeks including three opening looks, and holds consistent posing and pace across an eight hour studio call with quick changes.
Established board model
Established board model with national print campaigns, out of home work and recurring fit modeling for a pattern team across three product development cycles. Experienced leading younger models through backstage calls, and known by producers for arriving prepared and finishing a long shoot day at the same energy.
Work experience bullets: before and after
Before: Walked in fashion shows.
After: Walked 18 runway shows across two seasonal fashion weeks, including three opening looks and two shows with quick changes between exits.
Show count, seasons and the opening looks tell a booker the level rather than the activity.
Before: Did e commerce shoots.
After: Shot e commerce days averaging 120 looks, keeping posing and pace consistent across an eight hour call with a single styling team.
Looks per day is the real productivity measure for commercial work and almost nobody writes it down.
Before: Worked on some campaigns.
After: Booked two national print campaigns and one regional out of home campaign, with usage running across a full season.
Naming the usage type and reach lets a booker judge the tier of the client without asking.
Before: Did fit modeling for a brand.
After: Worked fit modeling sessions with a pattern team through three product development cycles, giving feedback on rise, sleeve length and ease at each sample round.
The technical vocabulary proves the fit work was real rather than a single sample day.
Before: Modeled for small clothing brands.
After: Modeled catalog and lookbook shoots for six independent labels, working with in house stylists and shooting both studio and location days.
Client count and the studio and location split show range within commercial work.
Hard skills
- Runway walk
- Editorial posing
- Commercial posing
- Fit modeling
- Showroom modeling
- Lookbook and catalog work
- Movement direction
- Quick changes
- Fittings and alterations feedback
- Casting and go see preparation
- Hair and makeup chair readiness
- On camera product handling
Soft skills
- On set professionalism
- Stamina across long calls
- Taking direction from stylists
- Punctuality
- Client communication
- Travel flexibility
Mistakes that cost model candidates the interview
- Pasting portfolio images into the document instead of linking the book and the comp card, which makes the file slow to open.
- Listing outdated measurements, which fails at the first fitting and costs the client studio time everyone can see.
- Crediting the photographer instead of the client or publication, so the work reads as a test shoot rather than a booking.
- Mixing runway, editorial, campaign and fit work into one list, when bookers place models by category.
- Leaving markets, passport and work authorization off the page, which stalls any cross market booking conversation.
- Padding the skills line with abilities you could not perform on camera on the day of the shoot.
Model resume questions
What is the difference between a model resume and a comp card?
The comp card is images with your statistics on the back and travels to castings. The resume is the text document listing credits, markets, skills and contact. Clients often see both, and each does a job the other cannot.
Which measurements belong on the page?
Height, bust, waist, hips, shoe size, dress or suit size, hair and eye color, kept current. Some markets also expect inseam. Update them whenever they change, because fittings are where inaccurate numbers surface immediately.
How do I list work I signed a confidentiality agreement for?
Describe the category, the market and the usage without the brand name, for example a national print campaign for a home goods retailer. Bookers understand the convention and it protects the client relationship you want to keep.
How do I write a resume for modeling with no agency or credits yet?
Keep the statistics block and links exactly as an agency model would, then list what you have: test shoots under a portfolio line, student or local designer shows under runway, and any freelance commercial or fit days with the client names you may use. Put your own contact where agency contact would sit, and say which markets you can travel to.
What goes on a CV for modeling in the UK?
The same content as a US model resume: statistics, category, credits by type, agency contact and links to the book. UK bookers read measurements in both metric and imperial, so give both, use UK dress and shoe sizes, and add your right to work. Keep it to one page with no pasted photographs.