Medical Laboratory Scientist resume skills. The words recruiters search for.
The 17 skills, tools and credentials that come up in medical laboratory scientist job posts, sorted by type, and how to put them in bullets a recruiter believes.
By Nazir Elmurodov, Founder, LaunchCV · Updated
/ The list
Keywords by type. Use only the ones that are true for you.
Hard skills · 15
- Clinical chemistry (used in Kevin's sample resume)
- Hematology (used in Kevin's sample resume)
- Coagulation (used in Kevin's sample resume)
- Urinalysis (used in Kevin's sample resume)
- Blood bank (used in Kevin's sample resume)
- Immunohematology (used in Kevin's sample resume)
- Crossmatching (used in Kevin's sample resume)
- Quality control (used in Kevin's sample resume)
- Westgard rules (used in Kevin's sample resume)
- Method validation (used in Kevin's sample resume)
- Instrument troubleshooting (used in Kevin's sample resume)
- Critical values (used in Kevin's sample resume)
- Turnaround time (used in Kevin's sample resume)
- CAP (used in Kevin's sample resume)
- CLIA (used in Kevin's sample resume)
Tools & software · 1
- LIS (used in Kevin's sample resume)
Licenses & certifications · 1
- MLS(ASCP)CM (used in Kevin's sample resume)
17 of 17 appear in Kevin's sample resume. See where
/ How to use them
Put keywords in bullets, not just in a skills list.
A skills list tells the software you have a skill. A bullet shows a recruiter what you did with it.
Hematology, Coagulation, Urinalysis
Weak: Skills: Hematology, Coagulation, Urinalysis
Strong: Run and verify chemistry, hematology, coagulation and urinalysis results for a 300-bed hospital on evening shift, including stat ED and ICU samples
Blood bank, Crossmatching
Weak: Skills: Blood bank, Crossmatching
Strong: Perform ABO/Rh typing, antibody screens and crossmatching in blood bank and issue products during massive transfusion events
Westgard rules
Weak: Skills: Westgard rules
Strong: Review daily QC with Westgard rules, troubleshoot analyzer failures and document corrective action before releasing patient results
Critical values, LIS
Weak: Skills: Critical values, LIS
Strong: Call critical values to nurses and providers with read-back and log each call in the LIS
Strong bullets come from Kevin's sample resume and our medical laboratory scientist bullet examples. Names and figures are illustrative.
/ Use them honestly
Keywords get you found. Proof gets you hired.
Mirror the job post's wording for skills you really have. If a medical laboratory scientist post asks for Clinical chemistry and you've used it, say Clinical chemistry, in the post's spelling, and show where.
Mirror the job post's wording
If a medical laboratory scientist post says "Hematology", write "Hematology", not a near-synonym — as long as it's accurate. Recruiters search for the post's exact term.
Only claim what you can back up
Expect to be asked about every term you list. If you couldn't spend two minutes on Clinical chemistry — what you did and what changed — leave it out.
Show it in a bullet
A skills list says you know Blood bank. A bullet like the one under Medical Laboratory Scientist, Core Laboratory in the example above shows what you did with it.
No stuffing, no hidden text
Repeating a word or hiding keywords in white text doesn't make you a better match. A person reads the resume in the end.
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/ Questions
Medical Laboratory Scientist keywords, answered.
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How many keywords should a medical laboratory scientist resume have?
There's no magic number. Kevin's sample resume uses all 17 terms on this page, because each one fit that job. Cover what your post asks for that you can back up, each where it fits; repeating a keyword doesn't help.
Should I copy keywords exactly from the job post?
Use the post's wording for skills you really have. If a medical laboratory scientist post says "Clinical chemistry", write "Clinical chemistry" rather than a synonym, so a recruiter searching for that term finds you. Don't add skills you don't have just because the post lists them.
Where should keywords go on my resume?
In your summary, a short skills section and, above all, the bullets under each job, where you show what you did with the skill. In Kevin's sample, Hematology, Coagulation and Urinalysis are in the summary and Blood bank shows up in a bullet under Medical Laboratory Scientist, Core Laboratory. Plain text in the body of the page is easiest for applicant tracking systems to read.
Which tools should I list on a medical laboratory scientist resume?
The ones you've used and the post mentions. Common ones in medical laboratory scientist posts include LIS. Name the tool in the bullet where you used it, not only in the skills list.
How should I list MLS(ASCP)CM on my resume?
Spell it the way the job post does, and include both the abbreviation and the full name if you have room. Put licenses and certifications in their own section or next to your education, and only list ones that are current.
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