Creating A Powerful CV: Tips From Healthcare Recruiters
The CV serves as a quick reference on you, your skills as well as your qualifications. Healthcare recruiters receive thousands of resumes for every vacancy and use CVs to sift out good candidates from unqualified ones.
Your resume needs to be clear and concise in order for it to get shortlisted to the interview phase.
Healthcare recruiters look for accuracy and consistency. Apart from looking at training and qualifications, recruiters also look out for how many times a candidate has switched jobs and what kind of results they helped deliver at their past jobs. The next phase of the recruitment process typically entails a longer conversation about the candidate’s personality and career goals and aspirations.
But before you make it to the interview phase, here are some helpful tips to make a powerful resume that stands out.
What NOT to Include
Avoid the usage of clichés such as calling yourself a “self-starter” or a “team player” who is “highly motivated”. Not only are such phrases vague, they’re also overused and do nothing to help you stand out.
What to Include
Begin by mapping out parts about your personality, skills and career that you want to highlight. Think of things that have defined you or have been a defining point in your career. Make sure your profile is clear and focus on the first 50 words of your CV. The introduction on your resume will either pique the interest of the recruiter or not.
Focus on how in your previous jobs, you had made a difference. Instead of saying you are a “team player” describe how you were a team player. This adds value to your resume and enables recruiters to assess how you respond to and handle job-specific challenges.
Quantify Your Value as an Employee
It’s not always enough to highlight your skills and experience to your prospective employees or recruiters. It helps to quantify the value you brought to your employees in the past, by supplementing your CV with numbers.
For example, as a medical professional, you can include relevant numbers on your patient retention or metrics highlighting what percentage of change was brought on patient satisfaction and compliance, as a result of a program you helped implement.
Make Your Resume Easy to Read
This is perhaps the most important aspect of a powerful resume. A CV that looks cluttered or is not readable due to the font, font size, is an automatic invitation to the discard pile. Furthermore, as a medical professional, it is important to include industry jargon on your CV; however, you must ensure to not use overqualified terms. This is because your resume may be viewed by an assistant recruiter who may not be completely familiar with all the terms and might end up getting confused.
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