I am Humiliated

[Tesfanurse]

I had applied for a position at a hospital. I was struggling with my resume. I did not know which book to use so I turned to the internet and found resume writing assistance. I followed what was suggested and sent in my resume. A month later I found out that I did not qualify so they never called me for an interview. Luckily I found a wonderful book for nurse resumes and I wrote a new resume. When I compare it to my old one it is night and day. On this new one I have clear objective and listed all my skills... On the first one all I did was list the places where I have worked. I am so humiliated that I am ashamed to send my new resume to that hospital again. When they have more job openings does it mean I am disqualified for life?????????? Please help any advice will help I am humiliated.

[Psychcns]

I read that summary of qualifications- three sentences tailered t

[Psychcns]

I read that writing a "summary of qualifications", Three sentences tailored to the job and why they should hire you is preferred to "objective"

They also supposedly like you to talk about accomplishments rather than duties.

[RNIBCLC]

Your going to continue to evolve as a nurse..things change. I say no harm no foul...send it!!!

[Flatlander]

Oh, and also, I don't believe there is any rule that says you cannot apply multiple times for the same position. In fact, if it is an online application, it is wise to update your resume and cover letter for each position, or if it is for the same position, update it every three months. I can't think of a reason why any applicant would be permanently disqualified, unless they were fired from that facility for some grievous cause.

[scaredsilly, BSN, RN]

No reason to be humiliated! I bet there is not a nurse at that facility (or on these boards) including the nurse manager that you want to apply with who didn't have to rewrite their resumes when they were starting out. It's normal! Besides that, if you are doing online applications like most places require, a human most likely never saw it in the first place. The computerized recruiting kicks out more than they forward. Even if a human did see it, there are so many applicants that they won't remember.

Not being qualified (standard rejection letter says others were more qualified) merely means that you didn't have the experience a particular job requires. That doesn't mean you won't have the requirements for another job at that facility!

Best of luck! Apply wherever you think you have a chance, and don't be discouraged by rejection letters, most new grads have enough of them to wallpaper the superdome!

[grudgrime]

I did the same thing. I first just listed my schooling, skillset and past jobs. I got one interview out of about 30 resume's sent out. The I started thinking that I need to market myself better so I re-wrote my resume to add more information about me, and why I would make a great employee and just started sending it out again. I do feel like I wasted a lot of time with that old one. There were a couple jobs I really wanted and I feel like I really blew it by sending them a generic piece of paper with a few facts about my history. UGH...I hope I get something with the new one!

[MRSCRN]

Don't be so hard on yourself. I can completely sympathize with you, I have done my resume over at least 4 times and was debating just paying one of those companies to do it. My school's career services department was a total waste of time. I would say don't worry about it and just resend the new resume. The way I saw it I doubted if my first one even got a 2 second glance LOL!!