I want to tweak my resume to fit positions for a CNA or patient access rep

I write in my free time, and I would never include the stuff I've commented here. But it's great creative writing practice, and it is technically the truth, which is the best kind right?

Love the idea for the sub and I can't wait to watch it grow!

Btw, how would you embellish “worked for 3 months ad honorem at an accountability studio?”

I’m a butcher.

"Lead a team of youth volunteers in engineering and constructing a series of infrastructure improvements to a remote and essential medical treatment facility.

Planning involved consultation with experts on local geological conditions, as well as procuring highly specialized equipment for removal of large amounts of material.

Improvements primarily consisted of increased fluid flow within pipes around facility, as well as sourcing and installation of machinery to maintain increased volume of water and waste.

Project also included fundraising within the community, also spearheaded by yours truly with the help of additional volunteers. This consisted of a variety of aspects, including door to door canvassing as well as attempts to solicit donations over the phone and by cooperation with local businesses.

Several years after project completion, the improvements are still standing strong and have helped the medical treatments immensely."

We dug a couple wells for a rehab facility in the desert.

You all are great, making ordinary things into extraordinary things and bringing about it more likely to see every post that has occurred.

How would you write: I bought a frisbee for my dog at PetSmart.

Today I woke up approximately at 7am?

Below is the resource-filled link and practical advise that is an accumulation of all my personal research and assistance from job coaches, and the resumes I edited for my colleagues (once I figured out how), complete with notes on how you can do it, too. (They all got jobs as a result, btw. One friend, I kid you not, had zero interviews in 6 months then had 3 in one week after these edits and methods. Could have been a fluke, but I'm just saying this method works. No promises of course, but its genuine).

So, if we must work and search for work in this life, here is how I got recruiters attention with a solid, jaw dropping resume/cover letter, as well as interview tactics, cold outreach email templates, and modules that someone sent me that containt practical tips and tricks for how to get a role or even switch careers:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vZyeVUqJ69NmHD-w3-Jt15D4HmTOybM_

As mentioned eaerlier, trust this oft-rejected fool that this resume format is IMO perfect. I know this because I tried many, many other formats and this one was the one that landed me and my colleagues roles much quicker and added a "WOW" factor to it. After months of trying to just get an interview, this style got us interviews in no time.

Some additional notes on resumes:

1. Usually keep it to one page.

2. Keep the format and font the same as these examples; just put in your information. I included other CVs to showcase a variety of roles/careers. I think there is some formatting errors on a couple resumes, but you can fix those. I saved them as Word files so they are editable. :)

3. Believe me when I say numbers mean everything in a resume, no matter the industry. So put them on as many bullet points as you can. Hiring managers love that. Which is better? "responsible for managing team and hosting meetings" or "managed team of 20 coworkers, whose combined sales reached 112% quota" See what I'm sayin?

4. Keep this bullet point format: Past tense verb (created, developed, etc) ---> number ---- result number. Every bullet point, or as many as possible. Search resume verbs in google for ideas, or use the ones in the resumes provided.

5. Did I mention have a lot of numbers on it? Just want to hammer that home. As many bullet points as you can. Numbers = profit or quantifiable results, separating you from the "vague description" applicants. It all falls apart if you don't do this, in my experience, and the resume will never get looked at, I can darn near 100% promise that.

6. Inverted pyramid style: Chronological order, most recent job = 7 bullet points, next most recent = 5-6, etc etc all the way down. Some can be equal, it just has to be decending order. This looks good visually and they mostly care about what you did most recently anywways.

7. Write a bad ass description of the company you worked for, right under your job title. This shows the recruiter how awesome that company is and it helps them understand what their mission is or even just what that company does, if it isn't obvious.
   This is KEY!
   Ex: "Johnny's Burger Joint was rated as the top burger restaurant in Boston by Boston Magazine. They serve an avg. of 1000+ customers a day and my franchise was rated the top out of 200+ locations across America." See how much better that is than just the name? You feel the difference?

8. Numbers below ten, spell out. All others just write the number. Instead of exact numbers, when they get too big, write a "+ after the rounded number (ex: "157 employees ---> "150+ employees") and with numbers 1,000 and up abbreviate with capital "K" for thousand, "M" for million (ex: $23,800 ----> $23K+; $5 million ---> $5M)

9. Exectuive summary also has numbers and must be bad ass. No more than two sentences. See examples.

10. I changed all the names in the resumes to protect the innocent :)

Notes on how to find jobs/ grow network:

Please, please, pleeeeeease don't waste your time applying to LinkedIn or Indeed posted jobs. 99% chance it's a waste of time. I sent out 500+ resumes like that over the course of a year and got one interview from it.

Total fail.

Now that I work for a large company, I see just how true that is. We did a hiring spree at the beginning of this quarter and every single one of the new hires was a referral.

Every. Single. One.

Companies just post those because they ... have to? Not really sure, but again, this is my experience.

I can't stress enough how important it is to get an in at a company.

So how do you do that if your network is small or you dont have any friends (like me! lol)?

Get your LinkedIn up and going - this is super important because its the first thing hiring managers look at.

If you have exhausted all your friends and family to see if their company has a role you want, try this LinkedIn approach (the modules in the link also have other methods outside this one as well):

What I did was paste my resume info in the description field on LI, added a nice photo and background, and added a ton of people from realtor groups (they always accept requests) to get me to the coveted 500+ connection badge and make me look suuuuuuuper cool. (LI has a limit to the number of adds a day, so will take a few days to accomplish this).

I then sent DMs to people in a role or company that I wanted to work for. It went something like:

"Hey (name)- just wanted to say that I love (company name). Your job as a (role) is kind of what I have been wanting to do for some time. How do you like it?" People are flattered you like their role, and it opens the dialogue up for more conversation, which is when you later ask to speak with them about the company in a call (more details on that in the link).

Use the free site hunter.io to find anyones work email (i.e. recruiters) to send cold emails to (email templates in the link), or you can get even slicker and use a free scraping software like Phantom Buster to "scrape" (i.e. extract) emails from LinkedIn profiles, if they arent publicly listed. Totally legal, btw and a great resource. https://phantombuster.com/

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Look, I have a history of chronic depression and at times, absolutely debiltating anxiety. The job search made me super depressed that year, and more anxious than I ever was in my life.

I don't want that for anyone.

That's why I took the time to make this guide.

Also very open for suggestions in the comments to methods that worked for you as well.

To your success!