How to tailor your resume for a Registered Nurse role

1. Move your license, degree, and certifications into the top third, above any career-objective language; recruiters filter on credentials before reading a single duty bullet.
2. Match your unit type and typical ratio to the posting's own wording, med-surg, ICU, whatever it names; unit match is the first thing a nurse manager checks.
3. Name the charting system you used, matching the posting's system if it names one; hospitals screen for their own software by name and it costs you nothing to say it.
4. Cut soft phrases like compassionate care from the top section and replace them with your credential line; every resume in the pile already claims compassion on its own.

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)

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

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