Do you list your agency on your resume?

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Hey all!

When you are applying for a direct hire, do you list your agency on your resume? How exactly do you list it? What is the format you use?

What about when applying with an agency?

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I don't. The agency is irrelevant in my opinion. I don't work under their supervision, nor are they even qualified to give me a work reference. Those must come from your direct supervisors on your assignment.

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Specializes in ICU, and IR.

There is a resume template on the PanTravelers website. Try using that.

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There is a resume template on the PanTravelers website. Try using that.

Cant find it :(

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Go to Resources>Downloads. They have examples of resumes with long work histories and not much experience. They are designed for travelers. Resumes to get a staff job are differently designed usually but you can use the same space saving techniques.

Resumes are creative art and can be done well in a thousand ways. There are lots of free templates online and free resume building sites. My favorite place to look at real life examples is Google Images. Search for nurse resumes.

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Go to Resources>Downloads. They have examples of resumes with long work histories and not much experience. They are designed for travelers. Resumes to get a staff job are differently designed usually but you can use the same space saving techniques.

Resumes are creative art and can be done well in a thousand ways. There are lots of free templates online and free resume building sites. My favorite place to look at real life examples is Google Images. Search for nurse resumes.

Thank you NedRN for taking the time to comment.

I'm sorta stuck at the "summary" part right now. Not sure what to put it. Everything is in the job duties. Don't see what else to put in the summary that wont be a repeat.

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Repetition looks dumb. Don't do it!

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I don't. The agency is irrelevant in my opinion. I don't work under their supervision, nor are they even qualified to give me a work reference. Those must come from your direct supervisors on your assignment.

Hi again NedRN!

I am curious...so when applying with a travel agency, you don't mention on your resume that your previous employments were as a travel nurse?

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Title: Travel nurse assignments

Hospital name, location, dates.

Next line, next assignment.

Pretty easy.

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Specializes in ICU.

I have been asked to list the agency on perm job applications this year.

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Title: Travel nurse assignments

Is that instead of "employment" or "work history"?

Also, do you include job description/duties?

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Take a look at the examples on PanTravelers. Personally, I'm an OR nurse so other that saying I scrub and circulate I don't say anything about each assignment. The skills checklist reveals more about my skill set if the manager needs to explore further before deciding to interview.

If I had multiple specialties, I would differentiate what I did per assignment. Resume building is an art, not science, and there are lots of directions you can take creating one. The way I personally prefer is certainly not the way everyone else would go.

Travel nurses are a commodity. We are only at a facility for a few weeks. If I was a manager reviewing a stack of traveler profiles, I would put the twenty page profiles at the bottom to read last, or preferably not at all if I have found a couple of good candidates to interview before. When composing profile documents, keep the end user in mind. You are not making this for yourself, but to get an interview with a facility. Make it easy on them. They won't care you were floated to some special unit for two days. Skills will be on a separate skills checklist.

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