Your resume is your first impression to your future employer. Chances are he or she will see your resume long before you meet in person. One botch on your resume can cost you the job. In order to make a phenomenal impression, you should remember a few things.
Highlight Any and All Medical Experience
When you create your work experience section, you should include any and all medical experience you have. For instance, if you worked in a nursing home as a resident’s assistant (RA), this needs to be part of the time line. While this isn’t traditional medical assistant experience, it does show you have knowledge about health related matters. Add all your education in the healthcare field into the mix. Maybe, while you were working as an RA, you earned your CPR/First Aid Certification. This needs to be implemented as part of your resume.
Clerical Experience
Any clerical experience you have is another important aspect of your job history. Despite the that fact that you are being hired in the medical field, your job consists of various office related tasks. A perspective employer wants to hear that you worked as an administrative assistant in a nursing home or even in a travel agency.
Proofread
Proofreading your resume isn’t just an imperative step in creating a resume for a medical assistant job, but it’s also an important aspect of making any resume. Spelling errors, typographical errors and grammatical mistakes look very bad on you, especially when you’ll be handling paperwork and carrying out other clerical duties. Take an extra five minutes to read through what you typed up, so you avoid careless blunders on your resume.
Sell Yourself
Even if you’re basically bragging, do it, because nobody else will highlight your attributes. Your possible employer doesn’t have the capabilities to mind read, so let him or her know everything they should know about you that makes you highly qualified for a position at their facility.
Remove Unrelated Material
If you worked in a beauty salon for two years, it’s not necessary to keep this information on you resume or add this information to it. Unless you plan to cut hair at the pediatrician’s office, you’re just cluttering up your resume. A long resume with irrelevant information may lead to your possible employer overlooking you completely. However, do use experience that you have taking care of others on your resume. This makes you appear as if you’re a people person, which is vital when you’re in a field working one-on-one with patients.
Internship
An internship provides you with additional training, skill and understanding about being a medical assistant. Be sure you showcase your intern experience in your resume.