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Ekg technician resume examples from 2025

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write an ekg technician resume

Craft a resume summary statement

Put a resume summary on the top of your resume to highlight your accomplishments. A 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 write a strong, impressive resume summary:

Step 1: Start with your current job title, or the one you aspire to. Are you a passionate manager? A skilled analyst? It's a good starting point.

Step 2: Next put your years of experience in ekg technician-related roles.

Step 3: Now is the time to put your biggest accomplishment or something you are professionally proud of.

Step 4: Read over what you have written. It should be 2-4 sentences. Your goal is to summarize your experience, not recite your resume.

Hiring managers spend under a minute reviewing resumes on average. This means your summary needs to demonstrate your value quickly and show why you are the perfect fit for the ekg technician position.

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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:

  1. Start with the job listing. Frequently, the keywords looked for by recruiters will be listed. Be careful to include all skills in the job listing you have experience with.
  2. Consider all the software and tools you use on a daily basis. When in doubt, list them!
  3. Make sure you use accurate and up to date terms for all the skills listed.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some ekg technician interviews.

Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on an ekg technician resume:

  • Patients
  • BLS
  • Patient Care
  • Electrocardiogram
  • CPR
  • ECG
  • Holter Monitors
  • Medical Terminology
  • Stress Tests
  • Customer Service
  • Blood Pressure
  • EKG Tech
  • Arrhythmia
  • Treadmill
  • Phlebotomy
  • Perform EKG
  • Test Results
  • Event Monitors
  • Patient Safety
  • Data Entry
  • EEG
  • Abnormal Findings
  • Muse
  • Rhythm Strips
  • Vital Signs
  • Emergency Situations
  • Rehabilitation
  • Compassion
  • Echocardiogram
  • EMR

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How to structure your work experience

A work experience section is a vital part of your resume because it shows you have the experience to succeed in your next job.

  1. Put your most recent experience first. Prospective employers care about your most recent accomplishments the most.
  2. Put the job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
  3. Include only recent, relevant jobs. This means if you're a fairly experienced worker, you might need to leave off that first internship or other positions in favor of highlighting more pertinent positions.

How to write ekg technician experience bullet points

Remember, your resume is not a list of responsibilities or a job description. This is your chance to show why you're good at your job and what you accomplished.

Use the XYZ formula for your work experience bullet points. Here's how it works:

  • Use strong action verbs like Led, Built, or Optimized.
  • Follow up with numbers when possible to support your results. How much did performance improve? How much revenue did you drive?
  • Wrap it up by explaining the actions you took to achieve the result and how you made an impact.

This creates bullet points that read Achieved X, measured by Y, by doing Z.

Here are great bullet points from ekg technician resumes:

Work history example #1

EKG Technician

IU Health

  • Maintained confidential correspondence adhering to HIPAA regulations.
  • Measured length and height of rhythm patterns.
  • Monitored 5 Lead ECGs and developed proficiency in identifying heart rhythms.
  • Provided direct quality nursing care to patient's comfort, personal hygiene and safety needs under the direction of RN staff.
  • Observed EKG tracings and notified the nursing staff of any abnormal or life threatening rates and rhythms

Work history example #2

Physical Therapy Aide

HCA Healthcare

  • Performed modalities i.e ultrasound, e-stim, hot/cold packs Ordered supplies, scheduled appointments.
  • Ensured that I maintained CPR certification.
  • Applied ultrasound therapy through various transducers and gels.
  • Completed a case study from evaluation to discharge of a patient receiving inpatient treatment from a stroke.
  • Experienced with electrical stimulation modalities, ultrasound machines, iontophoresis, TENS unit.

Work history example #3

Cardiopulmonary Technician

The Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital

  • Observed cardiac/EKG monitoring of patients continuously during assigned work period.
  • Maintained continual observation and interpretation of patient heart rhythm data on a 25-bed cardiac-care specialty unit.
  • Worked with new investigational devices including atherectomy, stents, intravascular ultrasound, angioscopy, pacemakers, and implantable cardiac defibrillators.
  • Delivered patient care appropriate to population of patients cared for on particular unit.
  • Certified in CPR and ECG.

Work history example #4

Activity Coordinator

MD Anderson Cancer Center

  • Maintained regular and constant communication with program coordinator.
  • Offered assistance to Meadow s Alzheimer s Program by providing social support to residents and implementing activities.
  • Coordinated the pilot of an advanced communication device that is currently utilized in two Cleveland Clinic Ambulatory Surgery Centers.
  • Introduced and collaborated on staff communication book and volunteer orientation manual and training module.
  • Handled accounts requiring prior radiology authorizations, insure proper CPT codes are approved according to patient diagnosis and/or radiology protocol.

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Add an education section to your resume

Employers are looking for a few things when looking at the Education section of your resume:
  • The highest degree you have achieved.
  • TWhere you attended school, and the dates (Although if you graduated some time ago, leave the date off to avoid ageism)
  • TField of study
  • TAny honors, relevant coursework, achievements, or pertinent activities

Here are some examples of good education entries for resumes:

Associate's Degree in medical assisting services

Remington College, Colorado Springs, CO

2011 - 2013

Associate's Degree in psychology

Ashford University, San Diego, CA

2010 - 2012

Highlight your ekg technician certifications on your resume

Certifications are a great way to showcase special expertise or niche skills. Some jobs even require certifications to be hired.

Start simple. Include the full name of the certification. It's also good to mention the organization that issued the certification. Next, specify when you obtained the certification.

If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your ekg technician resume:

  1. Certified EKG Technician (CET)
  2. Certified Phlebotomy Technician (CPT)
  3. EKG Technician
  4. Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)
  5. Phlebotomy Technician (PBT(ASCP))
  6. Patient Care Technician
  7. Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT)
  8. Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (NHA)
  9. Cisco Certified Technician Data Center (CCT)
  10. Certified Cardiographic Technician (CCT)

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