Gut this resume! Rip it apart! (Really, I need concrit.)

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thanks to anyone and everyone who looks this over. i appreciate all constructive criticism you have to give. the text in red are things i feel i should probably ditch. let me know. i'm sitting for the nclex in 5 days and i want to have a resume set to go out as soon as i have a license number.

the formatting got borked when i copy and pasted. pretend everything is single spaced.

eta: i know everyone says to add measurable goals, but for most of my positions i don't have any. suggestions?

woahmelly

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education

xx state college xx, florida

  • associate in science degree, nursing, may 2012
    • 800 hours of clinical experience including but not limited to long term acute care, cvicu, neuro icu, orthopedics, telemetry, chemical dependency and acute psychiatric units i don't think i need this. thoughts?
    • 156 hour preceptorship telemetry (i'd like to work on tele/pcu, idealy)

xx university, xx florida

  • bachelors of science, political science

employment

xx medical center xx, florida

  • certified nurse assistant / 1:1 sitter (january 2011 to present)
    • 1:1 observation of patients: baker act, tbi patients, patients on prescribed suicide precautions, and patients at extreme risk for self harm due to altered mental status/dementia/alzheimer's
    • float pool and per diem with cna experience on multiple acuity floors including: trauma icu, er, pcu, telemetry, neuro step-down and cardiac step-down
    • experienced with electronic medical record systems (emr) including opus, cerner, medi-tech, and ecos

american red cross of xx xx, florida

  • volunteer assistant to the coordinator of disaster training and preparedness (october 2010 to present)
  • disaster action team (dat) central palm beaches, member (august 2010 to present)

    • disaster response including mass feeding, disaster assessment, and post-disaster outreach
    • case management post-disaster (hurricanes and house fires) including referrals to community resources

retail chain xx, florida

  • commissioned sales (march 2009 to april 2011)should i add things about customer service?

school district of xx xx, florida

  • contract substitute teacher (october 2008 to june 2009)

xx church and preschool xx, florida

  • adult english as a second language tutor (september 2008 to march 2009)

xx university housing xx florida

  • supervisor, security (january 2005 - june 2008)
    • interviewed and hired employees
    • mentored new employees
    • conducted semi-annual retraining for 80 employees on the topics of personal safety, property security, and eeoc training (harassment prevention and identification)
    • managed 10 to 15 employees on a nightly basis

certifications and courses

  • bls for health care providers (american heart association) expires 2/2014
  • acls provider (american heart association) expires 12/2013
  • basic ekg for health care providers (30 hour)
  • national institute of health stroke scale training via the american heart association
  • cpi (conflict prevention and intervention) non-violent response training expires april 2013

languages

  • spanish: limited working proficiency

  • russian: elementary proficiency

leadership and honors

xx county medical reserve corp/ state emergency responders and volunteers of

florida (serv-fl)

  • member

xx state college nursing student association

  • corresponding secretary (2010/2011 and 2011/2012)

    • initiated and coordinated "boxes for soldiers" campaign sending ten packages containing ten pounds each box of non-perishable goods and sports and automobile magazines to military members stationed in afghanistan
    • organized and presented budget proposal to state college registered student organization funding board resulting in $12,000 budget award to the program

    [*]pinning committee (2012) program designer and editor


    • formatted, edited and produced program for spring 2012 pinning ceremony

florida nursing student association

  • member

    • delegate at 2010 and 2011 florida nursing student association annual convention

national student nurse association

  • member
    • one of nine selected out of 495 members to represent palm beach state college at national convention in april

xx merit nursing scholarship

  • $1500 over two years

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

I have to admit that you have a lot of really great experience that would be very attractive to potential employers. The issue I see is that you have done so many different things it is really difficult to narrow down what you have done to what is relevant for the job you are seeking. If you send me a PM with your e-mail I can e-mail you a mock version of a resume based upon the information you have posted if your interested.

!Chris :specs:

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I have to admit that you have a lot of really great experience that would be very attractive to potential employers. The issue I see is that you have done so many different things it is really difficult to narrow down what you have done to what is relevant for the job you are seeking. If you send me a PM with your e-mail I can e-mail you a mock version of a resume based upon the information you have posted if your interested.

!Chris :specs:

PM'd you! Thank you! You're preemptively amazing!

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You have quite a bit of relevant experience, certifications, community involvement etc

I would try to group volunteer/community things under one group

Regarding your retail experience, yes stress customer service. Many hospitals are keen on customer service hence all the surveys, hourly roundings etc. Some hospital's reimbursement from Medicare are directly linked to C.S so yes, elaborate

Perhaps you can take the most important things you have done from your jobs/volunteer work and list them under:

Professional Profile

list things like customer service, team work, disaster preparedness, responsibility, anything that you did that can be quantified or measured, etc This sort of pulls together your entire resume and it should be listed after objectives if you have one. Mention your teaching etc and try to keep it under 2 pages or only 2 pages.

If you want to work on Tele, state some of the things you did, you want to highlight this.

You are very marketable and should catch the eye of any recruiter.

Best of luck!

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Woahmelly,

Can you tell me where you took the following courses? How long were the courses and did you have to do any type of testing? I know the AHA/ASA has the stroke class on line but it is convuluted trying to understand what you need to do to get the certification:

  • Basic EKG for Health Care Providers (30 hour)
  • National Institute of Health Stroke Scale training via the American Heart Association

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Thank you! I appreciate the advice.

You have quite a bit of relevant experience, certifications, community involvement etc

I would try to group volunteer/community things under one group

Regarding your retail experience, yes stress customer service. Many hospitals are keen on customer service hence all the surveys, hourly roundings etc. Some hospital's reimbursement from Medicare are directly linked to C.S so yes, elaborate

Perhaps you can take the most important things you have done from your jobs/volunteer work and list them under:

Professional Profile

list things like customer service, team work, disaster preparedness, responsibility, anything that you did that can be quantified or measured, etc This sort of pulls together your entire resume and it should be listed after objectives if you have one. Mention your teaching etc and try to keep it under 2 pages or only 2 pages.

If you want to work on Tele, state some of the things you did, you want to highlight this.

You are very marketable and should catch the eye of any recruiter.

Best of luck!

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The EKG class was via my college. The NIHSS was online via the AHA website.

Woahmelly,

Can you tell me where you took the following courses? How long were the courses and did you have to do any type of testing? I know the AHA/ASA has the stroke class on line but it is convuluted trying to understand what you need to do to get the certification:

  • Basic EKG for Health Care Providers (30 hour)
  • National Institute of Health Stroke Scale training via the American Heart Association

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