3. Services and Resources
• Resume and Cover Letter Assistance
• Job Searching Tips & Resources
• Interviewing Strategies and Mock
Interviews
• Job Fairs, Programs and Events
4. Services and Resources
• Websites:
www.gmercyu.edu/careerdevelopment
www.liquidcompass.com/gmercyu
(Nursing jobs)
www.collegecentral.com/gmercyu
(All majors)
• Social Media:
5. Resume Writing
• Marketing tool
– Make a good first impression
– Highlight and emphasize the positives
– Each resume is unique.
• Bring your experience and skills to life with
Action Verbs (list in resume packet)
• Personalize
• Know your audience
6. Resume Writing
• CONTENT
– Relevant EXPERIENCE beyond clinical rotations
– Volunteer work, campus/community involvement
(SNAP, Mission Trips)
– Professional Associations (PSNA, ANA)
• FORMAT/DESIGN
– Consistent and eye-catching
– Margins, spacing, font type and size, headings
7. Good Resumes
• Use action words.
• Consistent with formatting
• Easy to read and eye-catching
• Don’t have massive blocks of text
• Not a list of everything you’ve ever done
• Not a fixed, generic document
• Don’t have grammar and spelling errors
8. Don’t Forget
• To be descriptive and use related action words.
• Provided bedside care, medication administration, IV’s and
dressing changes for patients.
• Assessed patient for clinical changes and notified the registered
nurse and clinical instructor.
• Assisted in educating patients and family members about the
health care needs of the patient.
• Obtained vital signs and preformed physical assessments on all
patients
9. Resume Mistakes
Recruiter’s top "Pet Peeves."
• Spelling errors, typos, poor grammar
• Missing contact info, unprofessional email address
• Poor formatting
• Long, dense paragraphs – no bullet points
• References listed on resume (available upon request)
10. Resume Mistakes
• Lying and misleading – education, job title,
dates
• Use of first person (I, me, my)
• Lacks key words/phrases and Action Verbs
• Administered, Assessed, Monitored, etc.
• Cookie-cutter design from overused template
• Poor font choice and size
