5 Resume Mistakes

5 Resume Mistakes — and how to fix every one of them tonight.

You sent the application. You heard nothing.

If you're an internationally educated healthcare professional in Canada, you know that silence.

Your qualifications are real. Your experience is real. But something between you and the interview isn't working, and nobody's telling you what it is. This guide is what I wish someone had handed me when I arrived.

I'm Dr. Stefanie Tan, internationally trained physician, now VP of Research at a national healthcare organization. I made these exact mistakes. I've since coached hundreds of IEPs through them. The five issues in this guide show up in nearly every resume I've seen from internationally trained healthcare professionals, and every one of them is fixable.

What's inside:

The 5 most common resume mistakes that cost qualified internationally educated healthcare professionals interviews in Canada, including why sending a CV (instead of a resume) signals to employers that you don't know how hiring works here, what personal details are quietly creating legal risk for the people reading your application, how to translate international credentials so Canadian hiring managers can actually picture your scope, why leading with your job duties buries the part that actually gets you hired, and what ATS keyword filtering is doing to your applications before a human ever sees them.

Each mistake comes with a plain fix that you can apply tonight.