Nurse résumé
Licences and certifications are hard filters in healthcare, and they are filtered on exactly as written. Everything else is secondary to getting those lines right.
- US median pay
- $97,550
- BLS, May 2025
- People doing it
- 3,379,720
- across the United States
- Ten-year outlook
- +5.6%
- projected change in employment
- AI exposure
- Moderate exposure
- scored two independent ways
What this one has to carry
Beyond the ordinary sections every résumé needs. These are the things filtered on for this particular role, and they have to appear as words in the body of the document.
- Your licence with the issuing state and, where compact, that it is a multistate licence
- Certifications by their standard abbreviations — BLS, ACLS, PALS, CCRN — and spelled out once
- The setting: unit type, bed count, trauma level, patient ratio
- Systems by name, Epic or Cerner in particular, because those are searched for directly
The one that costs people this job
Burying the licence
A licence in a footer or a sidebar is a licence a parser may never see, and an application without one is usually filtered before a person reads a word of it. Put it in the body, near the top.
Where it is worth the most
Median pay divided by local prices, which is a different ordering from the sticker-salary tables and the one that decides what you keep.
| State | Median | Worth locally | Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | $140,270 | $126,688 | 338,940 |
| Oregon | $129,010 | $124,816 | 39,730 |
| Hawaii | $136,320 | $123,983 | 12,940 |
| Washington | $124,200 | $116,063 | 69,260 |
| Alaska | $109,480 | $106,955 | 7,510 |
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