New to the group. Need resume advise

[EberronNurse]

Hello all! This is my first post here and I hope someone can help. I in search of a new hospital position and I'm updating my resume. Does anyone have any ideas on how to form a resume/cv that focuses more on experiences i've had/departments i've worked in without listing each place? I've had a number of jobs in my career, both clinical and non clinical and recently someone told me it looks like I "jump around a lot" which brings up thoughts of retention. If I hire this guy, is he gonna be here in 6 months?

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[llg, PhD, RN]

You might be able to "hide" your job hopping by listing only the last couple of jobs individuality and then lumping the previous ones together by listing it something like:

Prior to 2000:

3 years experience as a staff nurse on general medical/surgical floors

2 years experience as a home health nurse

That kind of grouping may work, particularly if your employment history has been relatively stable for the last couple of years.

However, if your job hopping was recent you are going to have to deal with it up front. Be prepared to explain why you help jobs for such short periods -- and prepared to sell yourself to your prospective employer as being worthy of their investment in an orientation for you. You may have to face the music on this one and acknowledge that you made some poor choices and/or explain why you left jobs so soon. Be sure to emphasized what you learned from those experiences and why you will be an asset to your prospective employer and not just someone who consumes their orientation program and then leaves.

Do you have recommendations from your recent employers and/or copies of your evaluations to show that you are a good employee and that you did not leave those other jobs because you were incompetent and/or difficult to work with?

llg