Question: Resume building help! jobs listed?
I will be applying to work at a hospital, basically any position, because I am pre-med. The past 3 years I've worked in a mid-high tier restaurant and before that 1 year at a high-tier hotel in concierge. Although in between these times I have volunteered in the health field and recently returned from a 4 month volunteering project in North Africa. My Main question is should I put all these jobs on my resume
Answer:
A friend with a master degree in English helped me with this.
She explained it to me (she was doing some hiring and firing herself). She said if the hiring manager is too stupid not to know what you are supposed to do, would you want to work for that person?
So you'd have name / address and contact info. Then your license, if any, then experience, then education (to back it up). Normally references are not included but I do (I break the rule too).
Don't go into details about what you did (it's assumed that they know what a waiter is, for example.)
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Name
Contact address
phone number
also e-mail
License
RN / LVN / LPN xxxxxxx (year)
IV therapy and blood withdrawl certification xxxxx (year)
Experience & clinilcal
1 Name of place, unit / section. (or name of restaurant, in your case, and location), then Month / year to month / year
2
3
4
5
6
Education
Nursing school Month / year to month / year
High school year to year
Volunteer work
1
2
Other skills
Speak, read and write Spanish language proficiently.
References
John Doe, M.D., CEO, Cigna Healthcare, Phone number
Toya Marshall, N.P., Director of Nursing, UCLA Surgery Suite, Phone number
Mary Moore, Manager of operation, Kaiser Permanente, Phone number
One page resumes are a thing of the past. All paid employment should be listed. Any volunteerism that relates should be listed.
Remember that employers no longer want the boring lame resumes. They want to see creativity and results that you achieved. So, if while volunteering you came up with a better patient care model in some aspect, you say so.
The idea is to put all your best points on a resume trying to stay on one page. You could summarize your experience in one line stating the number of years you have had this experience. I would for sure put down your volunteering projects because that has to do with what you are trying to get a job doing. I usually break resumes down into a few groups. Objective is old school so replace that with a brief description of what you have to offer. Look at your resume as a paper on something. The first sentence should summarize everything you have to offer. Then break each one down into groups. One thing my friend did is to write the resume with fields such as experience, hobbies, volunteer work, etc. Then go back and right the first sentice for the resume. I hope this helps. Resume are over rated.