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Emergency Medical Technician resume example

A resume for a Emergency Medical Technician needs to show the work itself: assess injuries and illnesses and administer basic emergency medical care. Day to day that means work like this: administer first aid treatment or life support care to sick or injured persons in prehospital settings; assess nature and extent of illness or injury to establish and prioritize medical procedures. 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.

  • EMT
  • First Responder
  • AEMT
  • ED Technician
  • EMT-B
  • Advanced Emergency Medical Technician
  • Ambulance Driver
  • Dispatcher
  • Emergency Department Technician
  • Emergency Medical Driver
  • Emergency Medical Technician, Basic
  • Emergency Room Technician
  • Emergency Medical Technician- Basic
  • EMT-I/85
  • EMT-I/99
  • EMT-P
  • Health Care Specialist
  • Healthcare Specialist

O*NET records 20 titles for this occupation in total.

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.

  • Administer first aid treatment or life support care to sick or injured persons in prehospital settings.
  • Assess nature and extent of illness or injury to establish and prioritize medical procedures.
  • Attend training classes to maintain certification licensure, keep abreast of new developments in the field, or maintain existing knowledge.
  • Comfort and reassure patients.
  • Communicate with dispatchers or treatment center personnel to provide information about situation, to arrange reception of survivors, or to receive instructions for further treatment.
  • Coordinate work with other emergency medical team members or police or fire department personnel.
  • Decontaminate ambulance interior following treatment of patient with infectious disease, and report case to proper authorities.
  • Drive mobile intensive care unit to specified location, following instructions from emergency medical dispatcher.
  • Immobilize patient for placement on stretcher and ambulance transport, using backboard or other spinal immobilization device.
  • Maintain vehicles and medical and communication equipment, and replenish first aid equipment and supplies.
  • Observe, record, and report to physician the patient's condition or injury, the treatment provided, and reactions to drugs or treatment.
  • Perform emergency diagnostic and treatment procedures, such as stomach suction, airway management, or heart monitoring, during ambulance ride.

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.

  • Administer first aid treatment or life support care to sick or injured persons in prehospital settings, for [who or what it served], at [what volume].
  • Assess nature and extent of illness or injury to establish and prioritize medical procedures, for [who or what it served], at [what volume].
  • Attend training classes to maintain certification licensure, keep abreast of new developments in the field, or maintain existing knowledge, for [who or what it served], at [what volume].
  • Comfort and reassure patients, 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.

  • Epocrates
  • HyperTox
  • Informed EMS Field Guide
  • Iterum eMedic
  • MedDataSolutions Regist*r
  • Medical Wizards ER & ICU ToolBox
  • Medical Wizards ER Suite
  • Medical Wizards Paramedics ToolBox
  • MEDITECH software
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Microsoft operating system
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Word

21 software entries are recorded in total.

Tools and equipment

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

  • Adult Magill forceps
  • Adult non-rebreather oxygen masks
  • Adult stylets
  • Airway suction units
  • Ambulances
  • Bag valve mask BVM resuscitators
  • Battery-powered portable suction units
  • Blood pressure recorders
  • Blood tubes
  • Bulb syringes
  • Bulletproof vests
  • Cardboard splints

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.

  • Epocrates
  • HyperTox
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft PowerPoint

What level this role is pitched at

O*NET places this occupation in “Medium Preparation Needed”. Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.

Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.

Common questions

What does a Emergency Medical Technician do?
Assess injuries and illnesses and administer basic emergency medical care. Day to day that includes work like administer first aid treatment or life support care to sick or injured persons in prehospital settings and Assess nature and extent of illness or injury to establish and prioritize medical procedures.
What software should a Emergency Medical Technician list?
Software recorded for this occupation includes Epocrates, HyperTox, Informed EMS Field Guide, Iterum eMedic, and MedDataSolutions Regist*r. 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 Emergency Medical Technician work?
O*NET records 20 titles for this occupation, including EMT, First Responder, AEMT, and ED Technician. Searching only your own job title hides most of the openings you could apply to.
Will this resume pass an ATS for a Emergency Medical Technician 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.

Related roles

Occupations O*NET records as closest to this one, and worth looking at if this search is not moving.

What this page cannot tell you

  • No tool outside an employer can tell you how that employer’s ATS is configured, including ours.
  • 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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