Build your CV
Build your healthcare CV
A CV written for healthcare employers in Australia and New Zealand, one section at a time, with tips on making your experience stand out.
About 20 minutes · Editable Word download · No account needed
Your CV has 9 sections · about 20 minutes
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Nine sections
In the order a reader wants them
Open one section at a time. Leave out anything that does not apply.
Top of page one, and the only place a reader looks for how to contact you. No photograph, no date of birth, no marital status, no identity number — this builder gives you nowhere to put them on purpose.
The role you want, not necessarily the one you hold now.
It has to work from overseas. A number that only rings locally costs you interviews.
Nationality is not standard CV content, so there is nowhere to put it here. Where an immigration process needs it, we ask separately.
This belongs on page one, not page two. If you are not sure how to word your stage, the Registration Pathway Checker tells you where you are and what to call it.
Four moves: who you are professionally, what you bring, what makes your experience distinctive, and why this country. 50 to 130 words is plenty, and two hundred is the ceiling.
Active verbs — led, managed, developed. Every claim here should be one you would be happy to be asked about, because you will be.
A service you have helped improve, an unusual clinical environment, specialist experience, leadership responsibility, or something that shaped the clinician you are. Our clients read these side by side, and this is the line that separates two otherwise similar CVs.
Everyone reading it is wondering, and a plain personal reason reads better than a polished one.
Nothing written yet. 50 to 130 words is plenty.
The section that gets scanned, and where shortlisting happens. Group it under headings a reader recognises, then name the procedures — a reader will not assume a skill you have not written down.
One department’s headings, to show what a grouping looks like. Rename them to match how your own service is organised — a reader who sees the same seven headings on seven CVs stops reading them.
Optional: you can show these through your work history instead. If you include them, choose three or four that are true of you. Copying the list is the classic mistake — you will be asked for an example of each, so the example is the test of whether it belongs on the page.
Most recent first. This is where you learned the skills you have just listed, so do not repeat them — use the space for what was specific to that job, and put the scale in.
Roles that started before 2010 need only a title, an organisation and a date range. You can add a short line for a gap if you want to. You never need to give personal or medical reasons.
Highest qualification first. Give each one as it was awarded — do not translate it into a local equivalent yourself, because that is the regulator’s job and guessing it wrong reads badly.
Evidence that you are current, so recency matters more than length. Clinical training first. Mandatory training counts, but a list that is only fire safety and manual handling tells a reader you have done nothing else.
One line each. A department running the same equipment as you will notice this before anything else on the page.
This is your CV, so this one is your call.
Before you send it
What a reader will notice
Nothing here is a score. These are the things a hiring manager would notice, in the order they would notice them.
The Word file is A4, eleven point, and editable — the same nine sections, so you can keep amending it for each application without coming back here. It uses a standard system font so it looks the same on the employer’s machine as it does on yours.
Job title you are applying for
Your name
Email · mobile · where you are now
Candidate summary
Clinical expertise
Soft skills
Employment history and experience
Education, certifications and registration
Continued professional development
Equipment used
References
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