Radiographer Resume Examples & Writing Guide

This is a made-up person, but everything in it is written the way a real imaging department reads a resume: credentials at the top, modalities named, numbers on the bullets. Copy the structure and swap in your own exams, equipment and license.

Imaging departments hire to fill a slot on a schedule. The person reading your resume is usually the modality lead or the imaging director, and they are checking whether you can be on the floor without supervision and on which machine.

• Credential and license status. ARRT registry number and current state license, or the date you sit the registry if you just graduated. If your license lapsed, do not hide it, put the reinstatement date.
• Which modalities you actually run alone. General, portable, OR C-arm, CT, MRI, mammography and fluoro are different jobs. Name them, and say which ones you cover unsupervised.
• Volume and repeat rate. Exams per shift and repeat rate tell them whether you will slow the schedule down. Even a rough monthly average beats no number.
• Shift and call availability. Nights, weekends, holiday rotation and OR call are the hardest slots to fill. If you will take them, say so in the summary.
• Equipment and PACS you know. Naming the vendor (GE, Siemens, Philips, Fujifilm) and your PACS shortens their training estimate.

“I can teach our protocols in two weeks. What I cannot teach in two weeks is comfort with a C-arm at 2am. If a resume says C-arm, OR call, trauma and gives me a number of cases, that person goes to the top of the pile.”

Use a summary if you have registry credentials and clinical hours. Use an objective only as a new graduate, and make it about the exams you have logged, not about your ambitions. Three to four lines is plenty.

The mistake on most radiographer resumes is listing the job description of every rad tech in America. Say what you ran, how many, and what changed because you were there.

Split your skills so a manager can scan them. Modalities first, then equipment and systems, then the human part of the job.

• General radiography: chest, extremity, spine, abdomen, skull, pediatric
• Portable and mobile radiography, including isolation rooms
• OR fluoroscopy on mini and full-size C-arm
• CT: head, chest, abdomen/pelvis, CTA, stroke protocol, low-dose lung screening
• Trauma positioning and cross-table technique
• Contrast administration, venipuncture and reaction protocols
• Radiation protection, ALARA, collimation and shielding
• Equipment QC, warm-ups and daily logs

Equipment and software, named by vendor. This is the part ATS keyword filters actually match, and it tells the manager how long your orientation will take.

• GE, Siemens, Philips and Fujifilm radiographic and CT units
• Digital radiography (DR) and computed radiography (CR) plates
• PACS (Sectra, Fujifilm Synapse, Philips Vue)
• RIS and exam reconciliation
• Epic Radiant or Cerner order entry
• Dose tracking software and exposure index monitoring
• Power injectors for contrast
• Bone densitometry (DEXA) if you run it

Soft skills only count here if you tie them to something imaging-specific. "Good communicator" means nothing. "Talks confused or non-verbal patients through positioning without sedation" means something.

• Positioning patients who cannot follow instructions (dementia, intubated, pediatric)
• Working solo overnight without a supervisor on site
• Handing off cleanly at shift change with an accurate worklist
• Keeping the schedule moving when the ED sends four add-ons at once
• Teaching students without slowing the room down

Credentials are the pass/fail part of the screen. Write them the way the registry writes them, with the certification body named, and add the status. Never write a credential you have not earned yet; write the exam date instead.

What is usually required versus what is a bonus:

• Usually required: graduation from a JRCERT-accredited program, ARRT certification in Radiography, and a state license where your state requires one. Licensing rules are not the same everywhere, so check your state's radiologic licensing board before you write anything about it.
• Usually required: current BLS provider card. Some trauma centers also want ACLS.
• Worth adding: ARRT post-primary certifications in CT, MRI (MR), Mammography (M), Vascular-Interventional (VI) or Bone Densitometry (BD). Each one opens a different schedule slot.
• Worth adding: venipuncture and contrast competency, if your employer documented it.
• Some states require a separate fluoroscopy permit. Do not claim one unless you hold it; check your state's requirements and say so plainly if it is in progress.

A new graduate is not a person with no experience. You finished clinicals. Those hours are the experience section, and most programs already log them for you.

1. 1Pull your competency record from the program. It shows how many ARRT competencies you completed and in what categories.
2. 2Turn clinical rotations into a real experience entry: site type, dates, hours and what you did unsupervised by the end.
3. 3Give exam counts. "Approximately 900 exams across chest, extremity, spine and abdomen" is a number a manager can use.
4. 4State your registry exam date and your state application status near the top, so nobody has to guess.
5. 5List the equipment you trained on by vendor, and the PACS you used. New grads skip this and it costs them.
6. 6Add anything from before the program that shows you can handle patients and shift work: patient transport, EMT, CNA, retail closing shifts.

• One page up to about eight years of experience. Two pages once you hold multiple modality certifications or have supervised, and never more.
• Reverse chronological. Imaging managers want to see where you are now and whether you have been on nights recently.
• No photo, no date of birth, no marital status on a US resume. That is normal on a European CV and wrong here.
• Credential string next to your name in the header. Full license and certification detail lower down.
• Say the facility type next to the employer name: 300-bed community hospital, level II trauma center, outpatient imaging center, urgent care. Volume and pace are implied by that one phrase.
• Put shift availability in the summary or a one-line "Availability" section if you will take nights, weekends or call.
• Save as PDF unless the posting asks for .docx. Skip tables, columns and headers/footers, which many applicant tracking systems read badly.

For keywords, read the posting and mirror its exact words. Hospitals write "radiologic technologist", "rad tech", "ARRT (R)", "portable radiography", "C-arm", "CT technologist", "PACS", "ALARA", "venipuncture" and "call rotation". If you also want the search traffic for "radiographer", the safe move is a header line reading "Radiologic Technologist (Radiographer), R.T.(R)(ARRT)". Note that radiographer is the standard title in the UK, Ireland and much of the Commonwealth, where registration runs through a different body and the document is called a CV; in the US, apply as a radiologic technologist with a US-format resume.