The idea of a career profile is to give the reader a snapshot of your relevant experience and key skills as a health care professional. They should be able to see at a glance from the information in your statement that you are a candidate that should be strongly considered.

Some tips to follow for writing your profile statement:

• Make your profile relevant to the attributes the employer is looking for. For example, if they are looking for someone with great interpersonal skills who is detail oriented, it would be important that your profile statement explains you have these attributes. (This is called ‘tailoring’).
• Try to avoid beginning your sentences with “I” – see the example below for a suggested way to do this.
• Your profile statement should be reasonably short – no more than say 3-5 lines of text, depending on the extent of your experience.
• Perhaps include one or two personality, and/or work style attributes in a descriptive sentence which most accurately describes who you are, and what you have to offer.
• Provide a very brief and broad overview description of any relevant employment and/or clinical experience.
• Experiment with the first dozen or so words in your profile statement…..they really do need to grab the attention and interest of the reader.

For example: