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Resume Roast for Occupational Therapists

Occupational Therapist resumes tend to describe the mission and skip the caseload. Reviewers hiring an OT check the setting first, like schools, acute rehab, home health, hands, then productivity and certifications. Helping patients live fuller lives is the profession; it is not a differentiator on paper. Your settings, your evaluations per week, and your specialty training are what get circled.

What Gabe checks first on a Occupational Therapist resume

Lead with setting and population, like inpatient rehab with adult neuro or pediatric clinic with sensory integration. OT is too wide to screen without it.
Give caseload numbers: evaluations and treatments per day, documentation system used. Productivity is a real staffing question, so answer it on paper.
List specialty credentials, like CHT, LSVT, feeding certifications. One credential line beats a paragraph about your holistic approach.

Worth knowing

The claim that ATS systems auto-reject 75 percent of resumes traces to a 2012 marketing claim, not research. (traced to a 2012 vendor marketing claim)

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