In addition, remember to focus on your successes, not your obligations. To have impact, your resume must vividly state your achievements, not just restate your job description. Sell the scent, not the rose.

The secret? See yourself from the hiring individual’s perspective. Ask yourself what you’d look for if you were hiring.

In addition, underscore your most vital responsibilities, even if they weren’t your main ones. Think cause-and-effect. State a problem, your solution, and the results. If you made improvements in processes or products, show how they improved the company.

I’ve written hundreds of resumes, including dozens of CVs and resumes for physicians. Remember, your resume is one of the most important documents of your life. It deserves the utmost attention. View all comments by Paul Freiberger

There’s not much difference in a resume like that. Instead of discussing your residency, you just limit it to discussing your internship.

Please visit our main site at http://www.TheDoctorJob.com and read some of the information there. We can help you find a position even if you’ve left your program after your internship. View all comments by Adam

The interests section is pretty useless as well, unless your resume is sparse and you need to fill space.

Thanks for the comment! View all comments by William

#1) If you’re a physician and you’ve submitted your CV/Resume you’re probably interested in work as a physician. If that isn’t the case and/or you want to get more specific as to what you’re looking for, the cover letter is a much larger and more appropriate forum to do so.

#2) Like it or not, very few employers care if you like SCUBA or reading spy novels or horseback riding or model trains or whatever. There are preconceptions, however, that a lot of people have about activities that are often included in an Interests/Hobbies section of a CV/resume. What if a hiring authority has a negative feeling towards someone/somtehing associated with fly fishing or rock climbing and you’ve included it on your CV? As a recruiter, I’ve seen candidates disqualified for seemingly harmless inclusions simply because of strange prejudices that the hiring authority has against certain interests. If that sounds ridiculous, it is ridiculous, but it happens.

Bottom line. People don’t land jobs because of a “perfect” objective line or because they listed a specialized, non-work related interest on their resume. People land jobs because their resumes get them interviews and they sell themselves to the hiring authority and vice versa, so don’t open yourself up for possible exclusion because an objective line or interest doesn’t jibe with the preconceptions of the employer.

-WJ View all comments by Physician Recruiter Blog