As a travel nurse, a good resume is essential if you want to take advantage of the thousands of exciting opportunities available to you across the nation. A strong resume will give your employers a sense of the legend you are and what you have to offer.
With hundreds of resumes flying across the desks of medical facilities each day, you will want to keep your resume concise whilst highlighting your experience and skills so that you stand out against the crowd.
Wondering what to include in a travel nurse resume? Here are some tips and tricks to help your resume stand out.
1. Keep Your Resume Concise
There is quite a bit of information to include in a resume when you apply for a job in the travel nursing field. It is important when you are writing that you try not to use fluffy language or fill up too many pages as that can make it wordy and harder to read. Typically, all that is needed per position is the hospital bed size, trauma level, teaching status, patient ratio, and where you floated, if applicable.
2. You’re a legend, let it show
This is your time to let your legendary experience shine through. Are you CRRT trained? Are you certified in your specialty (CEN, CCRN, OCN, etc.)? Are you proficient in moderate sedation? As an L&D RN, can you circulate and scrub c-sections? We want to make you stand out!
4. Summarize your work experience
Sounds obvious right? The trick here is to make your information as easy to digest as possible. If you have past travel experience, the hospital name is what we need instead of the agency you worked with. If you have more than 7 years of experience, you only have to include the most recent 7 years. If you’d like to add a bullet list of duties, only do so for the most recent 2-3 years as that’s most pertinent to the interviewer. The goal is to ensure you’re a fit at a glance.
5. Highlight your education
As well as past work experience, you should also include your education in your resume. Make sure to put the full name of the college or university, the dates you attended, and the degree you graduated with. There is no need to include your GPA or volunteer experience during your educational year. The degree and institution are more than enough for clinical screeners.
6. List any other relevant skills
Lastly, review your resume. Does the timeline make sense? If someone non-clinical looked at your resume and compared it to the job description, would they immediately see you’re qualified? Can you speak to each item you’ve listed on your resume? Remember that a manager or other clinician will be interviewing you and asking questions based on the skills you’ve listed on your resume and/or units. Be prepared to dive into your hard skills and experience.
Ready to brush up on your resume for the career opportunity of a lifetime? Ask our Mader MedX team! We can help get you started and submitted to some of the best medical facilities in the US.