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job. Use specific terms. Check your word usage. Never use the wrong medical terminology. Your resume should show quality

and your commitment to quality.

Model your language after that used in the job posting.

All Work Experience is Helpful

you have little nursing experience:

1. A list of your nursing clinical hours is acceptable.

2. Healthcare volunteer hours can also be listed as experience.

3. Customer service work history will be very helpful in the new career. On the business side, healthcare organizations

look at patients and their families as customers. Customer service is high on the list of priorities.

S T R A T E G I E S F O R E F F E C T I V E R E S U M E W R I T I N G A N D A P P L I C A T I O N C O M P L E T I O N

Sell it…don’t tell it (this strategy impacts every aspect of your resume.) Clearly articulate the value of the product (YOU).

Tell it Strategy: Provide care to patients-monitoring vital signs, bathing and tube feeding patients, record status.

Sell it Strategy: On a combined medical/oncology unit, provide high level of care to patients–monitoring vital signs, bathing and

tube-feeding patients, communicating patient status to the nursing team, and delivering end –of–life care with empathy and

compassion. Effectively prioritized care during periods of staff shortages, dealing appropriately with patient concerns and

complex medical issues. Recognized for ability to identify significant changes in status based on observation, intuition, and

patient interaction

from JIST Works Resume 4

O P T I M I Z I N G Y O U R R E S U M E F O R S C A N N I N G A N D T R A C K I N G S Y S T E M S

A P P L I C A N T T R A C K I N G S Y S T E M ( A T S )

The ATS programs use a variety of filters and screeners, sometimes called “contextual parsers”, to help sort and categorize

resumes. Applications and/or resumes are collected in a database and scanned for keywords. No matches and you go to the

reject file. You will also get kicked out if the computer can’t read your application because of a formatting mistake.

The ATS Filters

The first stage screen is filtering on:

1. Location/contact info (the scanner is looking for commutable distance)

2. Career level (student, entry, experienced)

3. Education level

4. Occupational area

5. Other filters could be language proficiency, GPA, and current employment status

Second stage screen is filtering for keywords. The words and phrases set in the filters to find you. The employer will enter a

keyword or a string of keywords that apply to the job being recruited for, and these coupled with the filters will produce a field

of “hits”. Keywords are not action words (aka action verbs) and are almost always nouns. They usually refer to things like:

1. A technical skill, job terminology or specialization

2. Title, type of position, role or department

3. A certification, tool used, specific experience

Example:

(‘Registered Nurse or RN.’) and (‘flu vaccination’ or ‘h1n1’ or ‘flu shot vaccination’)

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