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How to tailor your resume for a Medical Coder role

A screener on a Medical Coder posting checks certification, specialty, and accuracy rate before anything else, because a coder claiming detail without a number is asking to be taken on faith. Tailoring means moving certification and audit accuracy above a general duties list.

Four moves for this posting
  1. Lead with certification status, matching the posting's requirement; uncertified resumes get sorted out first in most coding departments, regardless of how much experience sits underneath.
  2. State your accuracy rate and charts per day in the opening bullet, matching any volume language the posting uses; those two numbers are the entire interview case.
  3. Match your specialty and code sets, inpatient or outpatient, to the posting's exact wording; specialty match outranks general coding experience for this particular screen.
  4. Cut vague phrases like detail-oriented and replace them with your accuracy figure; a coder claiming precision without a number undercuts the claim it is trying to make.
The fact behind this

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)

Before you tailor anything

Start with the version a recruiter opens right now, then make these moves against it.

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