Clinical laboratory scientist resume examples from 2025
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How to write a clinical laboratory scientist resume
Craft a resume summary statement
Your resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to writing the most important 2-4 sentences of your resume:
Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.
Step 2: Include your years of experience in clinical laboratory scientist-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.
Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.
Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.
These four steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some clinical laboratory scientist interviews.Please upload your resume so Zippia’s job hunt AI can draft a summary statement for you.
List the right project manager skills
Many resumes are filtered out by hiring software before a human eye ever sees them. A robust Skills section can let recruiters (and bots) know you have the skills to do the job. Here is how to make the most of your skills section:
- Look at the job listing and skills listed. You need to include the exact keywords from the job description to get your resume in front of an actual human. Do you have those skills? Fantastic! Be sure to list them.
- Include as many relevant hard or technical clinical laboratory scientist skills as possible for each job you apply to.
- Be specific with the skills you have and be sure you are using the most up to date and accurate terms.
Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a clinical laboratory scientist resume:
- Patients
- Test Results
- Microbiology
- CLS
- Hematology
- ASCP
- Patient Care
- CLIA
- Proficiency Testing
- Laboratory Procedures
- Immunology
- Phlebotomy
- Blood Bank
- Patient Samples
- Preventive Maintenance
- QC
- Serology
- Clinical Laboratory Tests
- Toxicology
- Specimen Handling
- Quality Control Procedures
- LIS
- Clinical Chemistry
- Lab Equipment
- Laboratory Instruments
- Bacteriology
- Patient Results
- Patient Specimens
- Specimen Processing
- Data Entry
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How to structure your work experience
Your work experience should be structured:
- With your most recent roles first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order.
- Job title, along with company name and location on the left.
- Put the corresponding dates of employment on the left side.
- Keep only relevant jobs on your work experience.
How to write clinical laboratory scientist experience bullet points
Your resume is not a list of responsibilities or a job description. Instead, it is your chance to show your accomplishments and show why you're good at what you do.
- Use the What, How, and Why format. Answering these questions turns a bland job description into an effective showcase of your abilities.
- What were your responsibilities or goals?
- How did you accomplish them?
- Why were your results important? (How did it impact your company? Can you quantify the results in numbers? )
Here are effective examples from clinical laboratory scientist resumes:
Work history example #1
Clinical Laboratory Scientist
Quest Diagnostics
- Performed whole blood-heavy metals testing in the toxicology department.
- Performed moderate to complex Clinical Tests in Metabolism Department.
- Managed day-to-day tests performed in the Serology/Immunology, Hematology, Urinalysis, Coagulation, Blood Bank and Molecular Medicine departments.
- Performed and reported Virology and Molecular Microbiology Assays
- Assisted a licensed Clinical Scientist with multiple routine and specialty assays utilizing established procedures.
Work history example #2
Medical Laboratory Technician Assistant
Primary Care Partners
- Provided triage, referrals, and medication administration to patients in the office setting.
- Traveled to various locations throughout the state of Michigan and Ohio to operate and run client office sites.
- Conducted initial triage of incoming urgent care patients and delivered routine care, to include phlebotomy and sterile wound dressings.
- Received and processed biological specimens for departments such as Hematology, Chemistry, Toxicology, Endocrinology, Serology and Microbiology.
- Answered and screened incoming calls with professional phone etiquette and maintaining patient confidentiality to ensure compliance with HIPAA regulations.
Work history example #3
Medical Service Technician
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas
- Provided general nursing care such as positioning patients, lifting and turning patients, transferring patients and assisting patients with ambulation.
- Developed medical threat assessments into training which were successfully implemented during combat operations.
- Worked with Adults, OB patient, Young Teens and Pediatrics.Verify patient, Triage, roomed patients.
- Worked in a very large hospital system doing EEG's on premature infants to geriatric patients.
- Performed phlebotomy to obtain bloodwork.
Work history example #4
Microbiology Technician
Lens Crafters
- Loaded the BACTEC instrument for the rapid detection of microorganisms in blood and subcultured when bottles flagged as positive.
- Assisted with identification of the type of microorganisms grown during environmental monitoring, while maintaining inventory and general upkeep of laboratory.
- Performed functional test and IPP-Testing on Real-Time PCR machines of newly manufacture products to determine if the product passes recommended specification.
- Performed regular QA/QC and determined if parameters had been met.
- Trained resident doctors, medical students and medical technology students in all aspects of the microbiology laboratory.SALARY: Negotiable
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Add an education section to your resume
The education section should display your highest degree first.
Place your education section appropriately on your resume. If you graduated over 5 years ago, this section should be at the bottom of your resume. If you just graduated and lack relevant work experience, the education section should go to the top.
If you have a bachelor's or master's degree, do not list your high school education. If your graduation year is more than 15-20 years ago, it's better not to include dates in this section.
Here are some examples of good education entries for resumes:
Bachelor's Degree in clinical/medical laboratory science
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2007 - 2010
Highlight your clinical laboratory scientist certifications on your resume
Certifications can be a crucial part of your resume. Many jobs have required certifications.
To list, use the full name of the certification and the organization that issued it, along with the date of achievement.
Here are some of the best certifications to have on clinical laboratory scientist resumes:
- Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS)
- Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT(AAB))
- Certified Phlebotomy Technician (CPT)