Can someone review my resume?

SNIXRN · May 30, 2011

I can look it over for you :)

cnstecky · May 30, 2011

I can review it, I have assisted in many resume creations.

chicookie, BSN, RN · May 30, 2011

I can too if you want. I have sorted through resumes for my boss so I have first hand experience as to what a person who is hiring is looking for.

kltran80 · May 30, 2011

I can too if you want. I have sorted through resumes for my boss so I have first hand experience as to what a person who is hiring is looking for.

Hi Chicookie,

Would you please take a look at my resume also? I have PMed it to you. Thank you in advance for your feedback :)

cincin1 · May 31, 2011

Thank you everybody, I emailed them to your inboxes.....Be brutally honest. I can take it!

dudette10, MSN, RN · May 31, 2011

I can too if you want. I have sorted through resumes for my boss so I have first hand experience as to what a person who is hiring is looking for.

What are they looking for?

chicookie, BSN, RN · May 31, 2011

What are they looking for?

First off you don't want it to be wordy. People aren't going to sit there and read them. Visually pleasing to the eye while at the same time having the necessary information without being over bearing. Clear, concise, and to the point. Showing that you took the time to make it that way shows that you really are dedicated to a task, IMO. You can not say you are good with computer programs(and lets face it with computer based charting on the rise, hospitals are looking for someone that knows their way around a computer) but then your resume looks like something that someone just learning to use a computer did, that is a little contradictory.

Also dates are super import. I can not tell you how many times someone put their jobs out of date order. That is not only annoying but confusing. Or didn't put when their license expired.

I'm no expert but those were things that really stood out in a persons' resume. I actually would take the time to read the ones that were well written. I hate to say it but if it didn't look good I threw it away. I can only imagine what those people in HR are doing with the hundreds and hundreds they received. We got 200 and it was my task to take it down to less than 10.

There was one person who had the qualifications necessary for this position, and his resume was soooooo wordy. On his application he had put that he had worked in a department like ours before so we set it to the side and forgot all about it. *shrugs* He also sounded so arrogant on paper we could only imagine what he was like in real life. My boss and I didn't even read past the first paragraph. Remember your resume is a reflection of you.