I am writing a resume for a relative. My mind is fried and I know it needs to be condensed... I get a little wordy at times! Anyways, here is the gist of it... anyone willing to help me rework it right quick or give me some pointers? She has lots of experience, but no formal education and so we are trying to put point out great qualities she has.
"Highly motivated medical office professional with over ten years experience in medical facility and business office environments. Successfully advances the efficiency and accuracy of mediation with patients, attorneys and insurance agencies. Creates a smooth and timely work flow in busy medical facilities while maintaining a friendly and positive attitude with accurate work. Demonstrates experience in working personally and professionally with colleagues, medical professionals and acting as liaison with the public. Excellent time-management skills. Very hardworking and always willing to learn new procedures. Leader and team player, prompt, ability to prioritize while multi-tasking to meet deadlines."
thanks all! I guess that is where my fried brain comes into play. I was planning on the bulleted skills list, and just totally forgot.
Those all sound like they belong in the "skills" list. I've never heard of a "header". IF used, an objective should be a one-line statement about what job you're looking for if you can be specific about what you want and how it pertains to the particular job you're applying for. "To find a full-time position in which I can use my computer skills." is NOT a good objective.
Put all that stuff in your skills and skip the header.
Seems like the first line is the header. The rest is a skills list - change that into a bulleted list. Good luck!
"Medical office professional with over ten years experience" would be the header (short is easier to scan as do recruiters. they have no time to read all through). Then, the rest as bullets in the skills section:
- Efficient and accurate mediator with patients, attorneys and insurance agencies.
- Creates a smooth and timely work flow in busy medical facilities while maintaining a friendly and positive attitude
- Experienced in working with colleagues, medical professionals and acting as liaison with the public.
- Excellent time-management skills.
- Very hardworking
- Always willing to learn new procedures.
- Leader and team player, prompt, ability to prioritize while multi-tasking to meet deadline
For the bullets, you have to choose a style (adjectives, action verbs, nouns) and be consistent.
Instead of fancy words that everybody uses (excellent time management skills, hardworking, motivated, team player), try to have measurable / verifiable examples like responsible for xxx customer insurance files in last position, welcoming an average of over 25 patients an hour giving them the accurate papers to fill...
Group the skills and avoid mixing. In your text, you have friendly/positive attitude/working personally with colleagues/team player. As a potential recruiter, I would think that she may be a gossiper. Positive attitude and team player is enough for this skill. Same redundancies with accurate work/accuracy and mediation/liaison. You may want to condense these skills:
- efficient mediator between patients, attorneys and insurance agencies
- Professional liaison with the public
- positive attitude and team player
- Creates a smooth and timely work flow with excellent time management and multi-tasking skills with ability to prioritize
- Leader (needs more details on this one)
- motivated, enthusiast, always willing to learn new procedures
- hardworking (needs more details also)
Just one bit of advise... You'll want to use complete sentences, or you can list these items.
