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Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairer resume example

A resume for a Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairer needs to show the work itself: install and repair telecommunications cable, including fiber optics. Day to day that means work like this: set up service for customers, installing, connecting, testing, or adjusting equipment; travel to customers' premises to install, maintain, or repair audio and visual electronic reception equipment or accessories. Recruiters and applicant tracking systems both read for the tasks and tools this role actually involves, so the strongest resume names them in your own experience rather than describing the job in the abstract. Below are the tasks O*NET records for this occupation, the software and tools it uses, the titles it is advertised under, and the skills worth naming if they are genuinely yours.

Also advertised as

The same job is posted under many titles. Searching only your own job title hides most of the openings you could apply to.

  • Combination Technician
  • Installation and Repair Technician
  • I and R Technician
  • Lineman
  • Service Technician
  • Cable Splicer
  • Cable Technician
  • Cable Television Technician
  • Cable TV Tech
  • Field Service Technician
  • Installer
  • Outside Plant Technician
  • Cable Installation Tech
  • Cable TV Installer
  • FIOS Line Installer
  • Line Service Tech
  • Phone Technician
  • Aerial Installer

O*NET records 40 titles for this occupation in total.

What this work actually involves

Tasks recorded for this occupation, in O*NET's words. If your experience covers one of these, it belongs on your resume in your own words.

  • Set up service for customers, installing, connecting, testing, or adjusting equipment.
  • Travel to customers' premises to install, maintain, or repair audio and visual electronic reception equipment or accessories.
  • Measure signal strength at utility poles, using electronic test equipment.
  • Inspect or test lines or cables, recording and analyzing test results, to assess transmission characteristics and locate faults or malfunctions.
  • Splice cables, using hand tools, epoxy, or mechanical equipment.
  • Access specific areas to string lines, or install terminal boxes, auxiliary equipment, or appliances, using bucket trucks, climbing poles or ladders, or entering tunnels, trenches, or crawl spaces.
  • Clean or maintain tools or test equipment.
  • String cables between structures and lines from poles, towers, or trenches, and pull lines to proper tension.
  • Pull up cable by hand from large reels mounted on trucks.
  • Lay underground cable directly in trenches, or string it through conduits running through trenches.
  • Pull cable through ducts by hand or with winches.
  • Dig trenches for underground wires or cables.

19 tasks are recorded in total; these are the most central.

Example bullets for this role

Built from this occupation's own tasks. The brackets stay empty on purpose: we will not invent a number for you, and a fabricated metric is the fastest way to lose an interview you had already won.

  • Set up service for customers, installing, connecting, testing, or adjusting equipment, for [who or what it served], at [what volume].
  • Travel to customers' premises to install, maintain, or repair audio and visual electronic reception equipment or accessories, for [who or what it served], at [what volume].
  • Measure signal strength at utility poles, using electronic test equipment, for [who or what it served], at [what volume].
  • Inspect or test lines or cables, recording and analyzing test results, to assess transmission characteristics and locate faults or malfunctions, for [who or what it served], at [what volume].

Software used in this role

Recorded for this occupation by O*NET. An applicant tracking system matches the exact product name, so write the tool the way the posting writes it.

  • Autodesk AutoCAD
  • Cisco IOS
  • Customer relationship management CRM software
  • Email software
  • Mapcom systems M4
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft Word
  • Operating system software
  • Ping tools
  • Slack
  • Voice over internet protocol VoIP system software
  • Web browser software

15 software entries are recorded in total.

Tools and equipment

The physical equipment this occupation is recorded as using. Worth naming when a posting asks for it by name.

  • Adjustable hand wrenches
  • Articulating boom lift
  • Borers
  • Bubble levels
  • Bucket trucks
  • Buffer strippers
  • Cable cutters
  • Cable jacket strippers
  • Cable locators
  • Cable plows
  • Cable sheaves
  • Cable slitters

Skills an ATS reads for

Worth naming only if they are genuinely yours. Keyword overlap is one input to a resume's score, not a verdict.

  • Cisco IOS
  • Customer relationship management CRM

What this job rates as most important

O*NET rates every skill for importance to this occupation. These are the highest rated, in order.

  1. 01Complex Problem Solving
  2. 02Critical Thinking
  3. 03Operations Monitoring
  4. 04Speaking
  5. 05Active Listening
  6. 06Coordination
  7. 07Equipment Maintenance
  8. 08Judgment and Decision Making
  9. 09Monitoring
  10. 10Operation and Control

Knowledge areas

The subject knowledge this occupation draws on, rated by importance.

  • Telecommunications
  • Customer and Personal Service
  • English Language
  • Public Safety and Security
  • Computers and Electronics
  • Mechanical
  • Education and Training
  • Communications and Media

What qualifications people in this job have

From O*NET's survey of people doing this work. This is what postholders reported, not a requirement any single employer sets.

  • 60%High School Diploma, or the equivalent
  • 14%Post-Secondary Certificate, awarded for training completed after high school
  • 13%Less than a High School Diploma

What level this role is pitched at

O*NET places this occupation in “Some Preparation Needed”. These occupations usually require a high school diploma.

Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.

Common questions

What does a Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairer do?
Install and repair telecommunications cable, including fiber optics. Day to day that includes work like set up service for customers, installing, connecting, testing, or adjusting equipment and Travel to customers' premises to install, maintain, or repair audio and visual electronic reception equipment or accessories.
What skills should a Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairer put on a resume?
O*NET rates Complex Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, Operations Monitoring, Speaking, and Active Listening among the most important skills for this occupation. Name the ones that are genuinely yours and show where you used them. A resume that lists skills you do not have is weaker than one that lists fewer.
What software should a Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairer list?
Software recorded for this occupation includes Autodesk AutoCAD, Cisco IOS, Customer relationship management CRM software, Email software, and Mapcom systems M4. Applicant tracking systems match on the exact product name, so write the tool as the posting writes it rather than describing it in general terms.
What other job titles cover Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairer work?
O*NET records 40 titles for this occupation, including Combination Technician, Installation and Repair Technician, I and R Technician, and Lineman. Searching only your own job title hides most of the openings you could apply to.
What qualifications does a Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairer need?
In O*NET's survey of people doing this job, 60% reported their level of education as "High School Diploma, or the equivalent". That is what current postholders reported, not a requirement any single employer sets.
Will this resume pass an ATS for a Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairer role?
No tool outside an employer can tell you how that employer's system is configured, including ours. What you can control is that the resume parses cleanly, names the work in the words the posting uses, and does not claim anything you cannot back up.

Related roles

Occupations O*NET records as closest to this one, and worth looking at if this search is not moving.

What this page cannot tell you

  • No tool outside an employer can tell you how that employer’s ATS is configured, including ours.
  • This page makes no claim about pay, demand or how many people hold this job. O*NET does not publish that here and we will not estimate it.
  • Keyword overlap is one input to a resume’s score, not a verdict on you. A resume that names skills you do not have is worse than one that names fewer.

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