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A resume for a Acupuncturist needs to show the work itself: diagnose, treat, and prevent disorders by stimulating specific acupuncture points within the body using acupuncture needles. Day to day that means work like this: develop individual treatment plans and strategies; adhere to local, state, and federal laws, regulations, and statutes. Recruiters and applicant tracking systems both read for the tasks and tools this role actually involves, so the strongest resume names them in your own experience rather than describing the job in the abstract. Below are the tasks O*NET records for this occupation, the software and tools it uses, the titles it is advertised under, and the skills worth naming if they are genuinely yours.

Also advertised as

The same job is posted under many titles. Searching only your own job title hides most of the openings you could apply to.

  • Acupuncture Physician
  • Herbalist
  • Licensed Acupuncturist
  • LAC
  • Acupuncture Provider
  • Chinese Medical Doctor
  • Oriental Medicine Provider
  • Traditional Chinese Medicine Doctor
  • Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner
  • Acupressure Therapist
  • Acupressurist
  • Acupuncture Doctor
  • Auricular Acupuncturist
  • Auricular Detoxification Specialist
  • Auricular Therapist

What this work actually involves

Tasks recorded for this occupation, in O*NET's words. If your experience covers one of these, it belongs on your resume in your own words.

  • Develop individual treatment plans and strategies.
  • Adhere to local, state, and federal laws, regulations, and statutes.
  • Insert needles to provide acupuncture treatment.
  • Identify correct anatomical and proportional point locations based on patients' anatomy and positions, contraindications, and precautions related to treatments, such as intradermal needles, moxibustion, electricity, guasha, or bleeding.
  • Collect medical histories and general health and lifestyle information from patients.
  • Treat patients using tools, such as needles, cups, ear balls, seeds, pellets, or nutritional supplements.
  • Analyze physical findings and medical histories to make diagnoses according to Oriental medicine traditions.
  • Maintain and follow standard quality, safety, environmental, and infection control policies and procedures.
  • Educate patients on topics, such as meditation, ergonomics, stretching, exercise, nutrition, the healing process, breathing, or relaxation techniques.
  • Dispense herbal formulas and inform patients of dosages and frequencies, treatment duration, possible side effects, and drug interactions.
  • Maintain detailed and complete records of health care plans and prognoses.
  • Assess patients' general physical appearance to make diagnoses.

18 tasks are recorded in total; these are the most central.

Example bullets for this role

Built from this occupation's own tasks. The brackets stay empty on purpose: we will not invent a number for you, and a fabricated metric is the fastest way to lose an interview you had already won.

  • Develop individual treatment plans and strategies, for [who or what it served], at [what volume].
  • Adhere to local, state, and federal laws, regulations, and statutes, for [who or what it served], at [what volume].
  • Insert needles to provide acupuncture treatment, for [who or what it served], at [what volume].
  • Identify correct anatomical and proportional point locations based on patients' anatomy and positions, contraindications, and precautions related to treatments, such as intradermal needles, moxibustion, electricity, guasha, or bleeding, for [who or what it served], at [what volume].

Software used in this role

Recorded for this occupation by O*NET. An applicant tracking system matches the exact product name, so write the tool the way the posting writes it.

  • AcuPartner Professional
  • Electronic health record EHR software
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Microsoft Word
  • Miridia Technology AcuGraph
  • Qchart
  • Qpalm Acupuncture
  • QPuncture II
  • Trigram Software AcuBase Pro
  • Word processing software

Tools and equipment

The physical equipment this occupation is recorded as using. Worth naming when a posting asks for it by name.

  • Acupuncture ear probes
  • Acupuncture needle guide tubes
  • Acutonics tuning forks
  • Adenoid sphygmomanometers
  • Adson forceps
  • Air ion testers
  • Angle tip forceps
  • Autoclave sterilizers
  • Babinski hammers
  • Bandage scissors
  • Biohazard containers
  • Blood pressure monitors

Skills an ATS reads for

Worth naming only if they are genuinely yours. Keyword overlap is one input to a resume's score, not a verdict.

  • AcuPartner Professional
  • Electronic health record EHR

What this job rates as most important

O*NET rates every skill for importance to this occupation. These are the highest rated, in order.

  1. 01Active Listening
  2. 02Critical Thinking
  3. 03Social Perceptiveness
  4. 04Service Orientation
  5. 05Judgment and Decision Making
  6. 06Speaking
  7. 07Reading Comprehension
  8. 08Monitoring
  9. 09Active Learning
  10. 10Complex Problem Solving

Knowledge areas

The subject knowledge this occupation draws on, rated by importance.

  • Medicine and Dentistry
  • Customer and Personal Service
  • Therapy and Counseling
  • Psychology
  • Sales and Marketing
  • Education and Training
  • English Language
  • Administration and Management

What qualifications people in this job have

From O*NET's survey of people doing this work. This is what postholders reported, not a requirement any single employer sets.

  • 76%Master's Degree
  • 17%First Professional Degree, awarded for completion of a program that: requires at least 2 years of college work before entrance into the program, includes a total of at least 6 academic years of work to complete, and provides all remaining academic requirements to begin practice in a profession.
  • 7%Doctoral Degree

What level this role is pitched at

O*NET places this occupation in “Extensive Preparation Needed”. Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.

Common questions

What does a Acupuncturist do?
Diagnose, treat, and prevent disorders by stimulating specific acupuncture points within the body using acupuncture needles. Day to day that includes work like develop individual treatment plans and strategies and Adhere to local, state, and federal laws, regulations, and statutes.
What skills should a Acupuncturist put on a resume?
O*NET rates Active Listening, Critical Thinking, Social Perceptiveness, Service Orientation, and Judgment and Decision Making among the most important skills for this occupation. Name the ones that are genuinely yours and show where you used them. A resume that lists skills you do not have is weaker than one that lists fewer.
What software should a Acupuncturist list?
Software recorded for this occupation includes AcuPartner Professional, Electronic health record EHR software, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office software, and Microsoft Outlook. Applicant tracking systems match on the exact product name, so write the tool as the posting writes it rather than describing it in general terms.
What other job titles cover Acupuncturist work?
O*NET records 15 titles for this occupation, including Acupuncture Physician, Herbalist, Licensed Acupuncturist, and LAC. Searching only your own job title hides most of the openings you could apply to.
What qualifications does a Acupuncturist need?
In O*NET's survey of people doing this job, 76% reported their level of education as "Master's Degree". That is what current postholders reported, not a requirement any single employer sets.
Will this resume pass an ATS for a Acupuncturist role?
No tool outside an employer can tell you how that employer's system is configured, including ours. What you can control is that the resume parses cleanly, names the work in the words the posting uses, and does not claim anything you cannot back up.

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What this page cannot tell you

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  • This page makes no claim about pay, demand or how many people hold this job. O*NET does not publish that here and we will not estimate it.
  • Keyword overlap is one input to a resume’s score, not a verdict on you. A resume that names skills you do not have is worse than one that names fewer.

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