How to Write a Resume As a Pharmacy Tech
Pharmacists need technicians who take their jobs seriously and pay attention to detail. Depending on the work environment -- nursing home, hospital, local pharmacy, online pharmacy -- duties vary. A resume needs to communicate that and more.
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Instructions
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Prewrite
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Read about your profession online and access the necessary vocabulary. Don't rely on sample papers alone. The Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-09 Edition (online at bls.gov/oco/ocos252.htm) explains your profession in formal terms. Reading it will assist you in creating a more effective resume.
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Jot down on scratch paper all the ways your actual job experience agrees with job expectations. More specific job expectations might be outlined in a job description provided by the employer in the "help wanted" advertisement.
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List your skills and the tasks performed using active verbs such as "assist," "fill" and "train." Decide on the verb form and stick to it. Assist, fill and train are present tense but you can use past tense -- assisted, filled and trained -- or third person singular -- assists, fills and trains. Whichever form you choose, be consistent throughout the resume.
Personalize
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Choose a template from a program in your computer or online. ResumeTemplate.org offers several templates for free.
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Find sample resumes online. JobBankUSA.com offers free samples.
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Personalize your resume. According to ResumeFormat.org, "It is better to indicate your strong qualities so that the employers would have an idea of how proficient you are for the job." The primary purpose of your resume is to make the reader want to hire you. Use your prewriting, samples, and template and create your resume with strict focus on highlighting your skills and experience, especially those that would be beneficial to the job of a pharmacy technician.
Confidence
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Highlight the personal qualities that make you an excellent employee. Use words like punctual, reliable, and consistent. If you take direction well and work well with others, say so. Don't lie but don't leave them in the dark, either. Show how capable and dependable you are in your resume.
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Don't leave out important experience such as customer service and cash register operation, as a pharmacy tech may also perform these duties.
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Remember to focus on the most advanced Pharmacy Tech skills, those skills that indicate you have other skills as well. If you have experience compounding, for instance, that indicates other skills as well as trustworthiness.
Formatting
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Create a one-page pharmacy tech resume suitable for snail mail. Format this resume to look attractive and smart on the printed page. Use quality paper with a watermark to make a good impression.
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Create a left-justified pharmacy tech resume for sending via email. Cut and paste the text in the body of your email.
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Take the resume with you on an interview. In this version you might want to elaborate, going beyond the one page limit.
First Impression
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Read the resume aloud. This will help you to revise and make it better. Remember, the resume is your first impression. An error-free resume shows you take your work seriously and pay attention to detail, a very important characteristic for the position of a pharmacy tech.
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Have someone you trust look over the resume for spelling, punctuation and grammar errors.
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If at all possible, have the pharmacist you currently work for or a trusted co-worker look it over.
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Be sure to include up-to-date contact information.
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Tips & Warnings
Make your pharmacy tech resume easy on the eye by not trying to fit too much information on one page.
Avoid small or fancy fonts. Use a standard such as Times New Roman and 10 or 12 point font size for most of the text. Bold headings or your name, but keep your resume simple and easy to read. At every opportunity choose clear over clever.
