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Occupational therapy covers wildly different practice areas, pediatric sensory integration, hand therapy, neuro rehab, home health, and a resume that does not name yours reads as unfocused. Once the setting is clear, add the outcome: a return-to-work timeline, a functional independence score, a caseload size that shows real scope.
A hiring manager’s first check is whether you are licensed in their state. List the OTR/L license and state first, then NBCOT certification, CHT, or a specialty certification like SIPT, each with the issuing body and year.
WeeFIM, COPM, DASH and the EMR you have used (Casamba, WebPT, Net Health) are specific enough that naming them tells a hiring manager exactly what your caseload looked like and how fast you can ramp up on their system.
A phrase like "helped patients with daily living skills" could describe any OT in any setting. Naming the actual interventions, orthosis fabrication, sensory protocols, cognitive rehab strategies, along with caseload size, shows a hiring manager the real scope of what you do.
One page for a new grad or anyone with under roughly seven years of experience. Two pages is reasonable once you have management experience, a specialty certification like CHT, or a career history that would lose real information if compressed.
List the license type and state, for example "OTR/L, Rhode Island," but leave the license number off a resume you are circulating to multiple employers. It gets verified directly during hiring.
List your fieldwork placements as real experience, with the setting, the population you treated and the interventions you performed under supervision. It is genuine, relevant clinical experience for a new-grad resume, not filler.
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