Critique for new grad resume- much appreciated

[pugmom79]

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PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

• Honors graduate with 7+ years professional sales experience and excellent customer service talents, resulting in outstanding interpersonal and communication skills.
  
• Proven track record for success as exhibited by achieving the highest possible evaluations of my performance in all clinical rotations.
  
• Operated as class leader and mentor by serving as a tutor for other students through enthusiasm to teach.
  
• Distinguished as high energy and motivated, while encouraging a teamwork environment through readiness to help.
  
• Reputation for integrity, going above and beyond, leadership, and independence requiring minimal supervision, and results in patient advocacy.
  
• Recognized for my ability to demonstrate compassion in all situations and for the skills to work with challenging patients and families.
  
• Commended for my aptitude to anticipate patient needs, contributing to an environment of excellent customer satisfaction.
  
• Utilized exemplary critical thinking, problem solving, and prioritization skills.
  
• Exceeded all sales performance objectives, achieved exclusive European travel award, mentored new hires, and frequently conducted presentations to Fortune 500 companies, which exhibits my work ethic and positive attitude.
  
• Previous experience allows me to effortlessly navigate interdepartmental challenges.
  

EDUCATION

School, City

Associate Degree Nursing Graduating December 2012

• Current GPA 3.75
  
• Consecutive Director's List Achievements
  
• Awarded the Gwen Feather Scholarship by college nursing staff and healthcare professionals in the community
  
• Invited as student representative on Advisory Board by Dean of Nursing
  

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Preceptorship

• Labor & Delivery: NCH North. Refined skills in assessing, evaluating and accurately interpreting fetal heart monitor strips to prevent fetal distress, patient care, newborn assessment, fundus assessments, prepare patient for C-section, patient teaching, administered IVs, family planning, antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum experiences.
  

Clinical Rotations

• Fundamentals: Location. Cultivated skills in patient care, assessing, palliative care, interdisciplinary conference, and end of life transitions.
  

• Med/Surg: Location. Refined skills in patient care, assessing, prioritizing, oral/parenteral medication administration, catheters, IV starts, sterile dressings, tracheostomy suctioning, interdisciplinary conference, interpreting cardiac rhythms.
  
• Psychiatric: Location. Obtained insights into psychiatric care, individual therapy, group therapy, interdisciplinary conference, assessments, medication administration, and management of aggression and substance abuse.
  
• Labor & Delivery/ Mother Baby: Location. Refined skills in assessing, evaluating and accurately interpreting fetal heart monitor strips to prevent fetal distress, patient care, newborn assessment, patient teaching, administered IVs, family planning, antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum experiences.
  
• Pediatrics: Location. Executed skills in assessment, evaluation, implementation, and family education.
  
• Emergency Room: Location. Refined skills, in assessment, triage, prioritization, stress management, critical care situations, cardiac monitoring.
  
• ICU: Location. Performed skills in assessment, evaluation, hemodynamic monitoring, vent management.
  

Volunteer Experience, current

• Birthday Suites: Location. Execute skills in patient care and support, assist nursing staff with requests, assist with circumcision procedures, feeding babies, comforting newborns, transfer patients to NICU, ensure critical supplies are stocked, serve as a patient advocate.
  

PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCE

Account Executive

Company, City

• June 2004- June 2010.
  

Regional Sales Manager

Company, City

• June 2010- December 2010.
  

Sales Executive

Company, City

• January 2011- June 2011.
  

[pugmom79]

if anyone has any insight to provide i would greatly appreciate it! second career nursing student who graduates in december. many thanks in advance!

[ARock&AHardplace]

if anyone has any insight to provide i would greatly appreciate it! second career nursing student who graduates in december. many thanks in advance!

Well I really like your work history section. You didn't waste time describing the specific tasks of each of your previous jobs that may be irrelevant to the nursing job your applying for.

However your PROFESSIONAL PROFILE, while written very nicely, it reads like a book. Remember who is looking at your resume. This person is probably very busy and could very well be looking at hundreds of other resumes. So keeping that in mind, my suggestion is to trim down that section to a few lines/bullets. The wording is great but just try to condense or even leave off a bit of the extra.

Lastly, I always tell people who are trying to switch careers to look at whats called a "Combination resume". This style resume really allows for you to highlight alot of the Transferable Skills you have obtained from previous jobs or life experiences (i.e. volunteering) without going into depth the duties of your previous jobs. While yes the duties them selves are irrelevant, there will always be some skill you have learned that can transfer to your new career.

These are just my suggestions but like I always say, make sure your resume reflects you. You can get all the help in the world with your resume and it could be the best resume out there and land you the interview. But if the person on paper doesn't match up with the person in the seat, the chances of getting that job drop dramatically.

Good luck and let me know if you need more info.

[pugmom79]

thanks so much for taking the time and the tips. i am working on how to tweak it :)