Caregiver Resume Example

1. List Your Licenses, Certifications, and Skills

First and foremost, you should be aware of the types of licenses, certifications, and skills that you should display prominently on your resume. If you don’t have them yet, you should make it a career goal to earn them to boost your ability to both get hired and land a higher salary.

In some states, being licensed or certified is a necessity before you can get hired:

Here are the licenses or certifications you may need to land a job as a Personal Care Assistant. If you have them, display them prominently at the top of your resume:

• Companion/Homemaker
• Personal Care
• Home Services
• Nursing Assistant Certification
• Special Business License

In rare cases, a CPR and First Aid training and a TB test are required.

Beyond certifications, what are the major skills you should include on a caregiver resume?

Caregivers are in more demand than ever with our aging population. They are integral in order to provide the necessary care within at-home, assisted living, and nursing homes.

Caregivers help clients with their daily needs, as well as provide the much needed emotional support for the often neglected older population.

A caregiver is also crucial assistants to medical professionals, ensuring that clients are following proper therapies and taking medications according to prescribed orders. To the greatest extent possible, you need to come up with examples of these traits to show in your resume.

2. Include a Resume Introduction

A resume introduction is designed to give the potential hiring manager a reason to continue reading your resume. The candidate in the sample above has succeeded with his intro, for these reasons:

• He describes the years of relevant experience
• He explains his strengths regarding caregiving and how he is able to support other staff members
• He mentions some soft skills, which include ability to deal with a diverse population

Essentially, he’s laid out all of the highlights of his resume in manner that saves the hiring manager quite a bit of time. His introduction quickly convinces the hiring manager that he is a good applicant, and will therefore finish reading the resume.

3. Target your Professional Experience

The content in the Professional Experience section must be used to prove and expand on the claims made in the resume’s introduction.

Job duties and achievements must be listed in a bullet format. Below, we’ve chosen the three strongest bullet points from the example resume above for you to consider. In addition, we bolded strongest parts of each bullet point:

• Implemented group activities such as movie nights, story-telling, and game challenges that improved resident and staff engagement by 45%

The above bullet point proves that the candidate is innovative and cares about the quality of life that his clients lead. He takes the initiative to ensure that the people under his care are happy.

• Trained 12 new staff throughout employment, providing mentorship and guidance, while maintaining 92% in employee retention

As shown above, the caregiver’s extensive experience in the field has allowed him to be a mentor and leader to newer staff. His high retention rate also means that he is able to ensure that the staff is happy doing their work.

• Assisted over 35 residents aged 68 to 97 with daily needs including personal hygiene, dressing, turning positions, and transferring from chairs to bed

Here, the candidate showed the scope of his work, and what he is capable of handling. If he’s able to assist this many residents, it means he is good at multi-tasking and has exceptional organizational skills. Caregiver applicants must continue to persuade the hiring manager that they are the perfect applicant by using a persuasive and targeted resume, backed up with numbers.

4. Include Action Verbs for your Caregiver Resume

Create a punchy resume by starting each bullet point with an action verb. We’ve created a list of common action verbs personal caregiver assistant resumes tend to have:

Alleviate	Cook	Dress	Inspire	Intervene	Supervise
Anticipate	Create	Drive	Interact	Organize	Train
Assist	Delegate	Enrich	Perform	Meet	Verify
Bathe	Deliver	Entertain	Protect	Monitor
Care	Designate	Feed	Provide	Record
Clean	Discipline	Handle	Prepare	Save

Make sure to do research on the company you are applying to before writing your resume. It’s important that you address the specific needs of the employer, so if you notice any key words being used in the job advertisement, don’t be shy about putting a few into your resume or cover letter! If the list above is still not enough, be sure to glance through the longest action verb list in the universe if you aren’t satisfied with your choices here.

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