Your Professional Legal Nurse Consultant (PLNC) Certification resume is your personal, and most significant, marketing tool that’ll help you shine in your legal nurse consulting career. When you reach out to attorneys to assist them by reviewing medical records in cases, your resume speaks volumes. That’s why it’s essential you take this opportunity to make the most memorable impression!
Your resume should be designed to show off your skills and talents. It’s your opportunity to boast, but in a somewhat humble way.
Showing an attorney your nursing skills, experience, and education is an easily digestible format is absolutely key. The attorney doesn’t want to go fishing around for this essential info.
Five Tips To Make Your Resume STAND OUT!
1. Organize your resume into sections. There should be a rhyme and reason why you’ve grouped corresponding information into the same section.
Use These Sections:
- Contact Info
- Education
- Experience
- Licenses and Certifications
- Publications (if none, delete this section)
- Memberships and Activities
- Hobbies and Interests (not required, but definitely makes you more relatable)
2. Do NOT include this information: Don’t include the actual word “Resume”. It’s clear that this is your resume. Career Objectives: while you’re used to objectives being part of a nursing school syllabus, don’t include career objectives on your resume. You’ll essentially be saying why you want the job in your email to the attorney.
3. Send your resume via email. You don’t need to print it out and mail it. Make it easy for the attorney to open the PDF of your resume by telling the attorney in your email that you’ve attached your resume.
4. Research the attorney and the law firm, or company, ahead of time. This way, you can include the information you’ve gleaned from their website in your cover email. It shows you’ve done your research. That’s impressive!
5. Keep your resume to 1 – 2 pages. You can say in your cover email that you’ve attached your resume, but you have a more extensive curriculum vitae (CV) if they want it. This shows you’re mindful of the attorney’s time in not providing a long document to review, but that you have it if they want it.
As it’s been said, remember this expression and do it: “Measure twice, cut once”. Read and reread your resume BEFORE you click “Send”. You don’t want to have any typos in it.
Go get ‘em, PLNCs, with a striking resume that’s sure to make you shine.
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