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In this blog post, I will be providing some tips on how you can format your resume to help you get your first entry-level health informatics role. Don’t forget to check out this blog post here<\/a>, where I provide examples of health informatic interview questions with answers!



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In this example resume I have included a resume summary at the top of the resume. Many people come into the health informatics field with a clinical background (e.g. nursing or as a pharmacy technician) or they might have a technical background (e.g. working at the Help Desk at the hospital). As a result, it’s key for people to sell the transferrable skills they have obtained from working in other adjacent fields. For instance, you might have experience working in a multi-disciplinary clinical team or you might have experience writing queries in SQL or supporting external users. These are all key skills that would be beneficial to your application.

The other part of the resume is to list technical skills you have experience in. This can be skills you have obtained from taking courses or certificate programs, but make sure you have enough knowledge to be able to speak to these skills as you might be tested on your proficiency. For instance, with SQL you should know common joins and how to write queries to aggregate and filter the data.

When it comes to the main body of your resume, make sure to use action verbs to highlight the work you have done. For instance, include examples of your work experience using quantitative data (e.g. created reports and dashboards for emergency department, which helped to reduce patient readmission rates by 20%<\/em>) and highlight ways you made a significant difference at your previous organization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also, don’t forget to expand on the ways you have taken initiative on your own (especially if you have experience working as a superuser in the hospital) or if you have taken certifications or courses to improve your technical skills. You can listen to my interview here<\/a> with Jennifer Lewis MSN-NI, BSN, RN who made the transition from nurse to nursing informaticist by taking initiative and being the “go-to” technical person on her floor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have no experience in health informatics, try to highlight any relevant skills, capstone projects or courses you have completed, which showcase your passion for advancing in the field, you can do this at the top of your resume and within the body of the resume. Relevant internship or co-op experience can go above your degree if your degree is unrelated to health informatics (i.e. neither a clinical or IT related degree). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Common skills listed in health informatic job roles include: <\/p>\n\n\n\n