Here are a few tips writing a medical coding and billing resume:

There are a lot of jobs out there for medical coders and billers, but there are a lot of medical coders and billers applying for those same jobs too! How can you make your resume stand out and be considered instead of being tossed in the trash in favor of someone else? Here are few things to help that from happening.

1. Please don’t use a weird e-mail address – Think about it, when someone looks at your resume the first thing they see is your e-mail address and this is the first impression they get of you. So if you own a weird name like “aspicker@XXX.com or dragonballZ@XXX.com”, don’t use it! You need a professional e-mail such as you name and a few numbers next to it. They are free so create a new one!
2. Don’t have spelling errors or typos on your resume or cover letter – Nothing turns off a potential employer faster than a few typos, especially since you are applying to be a coder. That has to be one of the most embarrassing things to have someone pointing out your typos on your resume. Typos reflect lack of care in your general work. Use your spell checker or have someone look over it before you send it.
3. Please don’t mass your cover letter or resume – You are setting yourself up for disaster. No company wants to get a cover letter addressed to another company or an objective section on your resume that has nothing to do with the position being offered. Always make the positional employer feel that the only company you’re applying with is their company. Take the time and send them one-by-one and avoid these mistakes.
4. Listing a family member as a reference, like your sister or brother – When listing references you always want to have solid and credible people. I know you brother or sister love you, but that doesn’t mean you’ll get an interview. You want to have reference from people in the medial industry or someone that knows you have good coding skills. A good reference could be a place where you volunteered or a hospital where you have worked at previously.
5. Have a well-organized and easy to read resume – Remember that no wants to read novels. Keep your resume short, simple, and to the point. You resume should never be more than one page long. Make sure you have your sections on experience, education, certification, etc. highlighted at the top of the list and give a bulleted list below that. This will jump out when someone is reviewing your resume. A potential employer usually will give your resume a 30-second glance to gather all the information they need.
6. Google yourself and see what comes up – Can you believe that a lot of employer’s are now using Google as a character check? Believe it! If you say that you were volunteering at a hospital in Costa Rica with sick kids over the summer and then your employer finds a blog or looks at your face book and there are pictures where you were vandalizing a neighbor’s car or getting drunk at a party, then most likely you will not be getting that return call. I am saying that it is good to check and see what pops up when you Google yourself before someone else does.

So there is really nothing tricky or complicated when sending your resume. Just take these few things into mind and you will be miles ahead of aspicker@XXX.com whose novel-length resume is sitting in that potential employer’s trashcan!