Pharmacist Resume Example

Pharmacists are licensed professionals that provide essential products to the population at large. They need to be precise and have no room for error, as even a simple mistake can affect people’s health or lives. Pharmacists who run a productive pharmacy also need to be organized, and be able to track any incoming or outgoing medication or supply.

They are reliable and look for ways to provide the correct medication or products according to customer needs. A friendly and helpful pharmacist will also ensure that customers keep coming back.

To the greatest extent possible, you need to come up with examples of these traits to show in your resume.

Here’s where to start:

1. Make the Professional Profile your Opening

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

• She describes the years of experience in the field
• She shows instances where she improved procedures that had positive results
• She mentions her ability to deal with customers, which is important to help pharmacies grow

Essentially, she’s made a very compact argument for why she’d be a good candidate for the job in a very short amount of space. Now, the hiring manager seeing her resume will be intrigued, and look for evidence of her claims further in the resume.

2. Target your Professional Experience

Back up the claims you made in your Professional Profile with examples from your professional experience, listing them in a bullet format. Below, we’ve chosen the three strongest bullet points from the above sample resume for you to consider. We consider them the strongest, because they have been quantified and are achievement oriented.

We’ve also bolded the strongest parts of each bullet point:

• Implemented new guidelines and process workflow that minimized administrative errors from 2.3% to 0.1%

The above bullet point proves that the candidate knows when something needs to be improved and does something about it. She devised new procedures that significantly improved the pharmacy operations.

• Provided exceptional customer service that included additional information and education about medications, resulting in sales increase of $3K per month, while maintaining 83% in customer retention

As shown above, the pharmacist’s ability to communicate well with customers is what keeps them coming back, and as a result increases the revenue of the pharmacy.

• Dispensed medications according to written prescriptions with 100% accuracy and 29% more efficiency than other senior level pharmacists

Here, the candidate showed that she has the meticulousness for detail that is required from a pharmacist when dealing with the type or amount of medication to give customers.

What parts of your professional experience make the strongest case to interview you? Be sure to think on it, and do research before writing your resume. Resume Genius’ free software provides built-in professional resume templates and phrases to assist you in any needs.