How to write a Medical Lab CV

The conventions below are the ones this field actually uses. They are what the builder applies when you pick Medical Lab / Diagnostics, and what the rating checks a finished CV against.

What it must contain

Leave any of these out and the CV reads as incomplete to someone who hires in this field:

Work experience — Sample throughput, assays run, accreditation standard (NABL, CAP) and QC record.
Education
Techniques & Instrumentation — Name the instruments and assays. This section is keyword-matched hard.

The order to put them in

Order is not cosmetic. What sits at the top is what gets read before someone decides whether to keep reading.

Professional summary
Licences & registrations
Techniques & Instrumentation
Work experience
Education
Certifications
Achievements
Languages

What to put numbers on

The single most common reason a CV in this field reads as weak is that nothing in it is measured. These are the figures that mean something here:

samples per day · turnaround time · QC pass rate · assay count

Verbs that carry weight

Openers like “responsible for” and “worked on” describe a job description rather than a person. In this field these do the work instead:

Processed · Calibrated · Validated · Reported · Maintained · Audited

Length

1 to 2 pages is normal for this field.

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What it must contain

The order to put them in

What to put numbers on

Verbs that carry weight

Length

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