THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO RESUME WRITING FOR NURSING STUDENTS AND ALUMNI

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO RESUME WRITING FOR NURSING STUDENTS AND ALUMNI Mary M. Somers Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing Baltimore, Maryland Copyright 2002 by Mary M. Somers This information guide may be forwarded or photocopied in full, with copyright/contact/creation information intact, without specific permission, when used in a not-for-profit format. If any other use is desired, permission Mary M. Somers (msomers2@son.jhmi.edu) is required. Table of Contents Introduction 3 What is a Resume? 3 Targeted, Reverse Chronological Resumes 4 What’s

in a Resume? 4 Writing your Resume 6 Tips for Scannable Resumes 7 Other Suggestions 8 Action Verbs 9 Chronological Resume Worksheet 10 Additional Resources 13 INTRODUCTION A human resources assistant at the hospital for which you would like to work has begun to check her email. She’s received 100 this afternoon, all with resumes attached. Forty of the resumes are for the same nursing position for which you have applied. She’ll also have to collect those in the mail and fax machine—close to 150 in all. She is the first to review the resumes. Her job is to scan each one in a computerized database. She’ll then query the database based on specific key words identified by the nursing supervisor. Those resumes that meet the requirements will be forwarded to the human resources manager for further review. Those who submitted resumes that don’t meet the criteria will get a polite rejection letter—or hear nothing at all. In other hospitals or health care organizations that do not use a database, a staff person will visually scan each resume to see if minimum qualifications are met. On average, he’ll spend 10-20 seconds screening each one. In these organizations, your employment future...

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