The resume is a necessary tool to get you in the game. The bonus of responsibility falls upon you to prove that you are talented, skilled, qualified and have the potential to bring value to the company or organization – no easy task. I will collaborate with you to develop a strong well-written, well-organized, well-formatted and well-edited resume that enhances your consideration for job opportunities rather than detracts.

Your resume will be an action-oriented, interesting, concise and succinct account of your professional goals, qualifications, strengths, skills, experience, activities, contributions, achievements, results, education and professional affiliations. It will be written with the target market in mind, will match your verbal presentation and will not illicit unnecessary or irrelevant questions. Both the process of writing the resume and presenting the finished product will boost your confidence and dramatically strengthen your interview skills. It will give your reader a solid sense of what you want to do, the function and level of position that you are seeking, why you feel you are qualified and what experience you have to support your claim.

Our collaborative writing process involves revisiting and rethinking your professional past from today’s perspective to present yourself in a confident, objective manner. Individuals often make the mistake of just updating the old resume, not incorporating professional growth, new perspectives on older positions, and new approaches to length, style and language more relevant to the current time period and who you are today. The process allows you to look at your career history and how it has impacted your approach, attitude, education, successes and career management. It capitalizes on what you have to offer and identifies, downplays and compensates for gaps in experience, skills and education. I will help you organize and prioritize your thinking on how your experience could support you in achieving your career objectives.

The key requirements for writing a good resume are to collaborate and openly communicate your perspective, invite feedback, consider alternative approaches of presenting your background and proactively revisit your past - job descriptions, performance evaluations, letters of recommendation or commendation and feedback you have received from those whose skills, perspective and approach you value. Your resume can evoke an image when you are not present, open a door to a networking or information meeting, invite informal dialogue or secure the critical job interview. The resume will demonstrate your presentation skills, create interest and serve as a catalyst for stimulating, meaningful conversation.

In a formal interview process, the resume is used to assess a potential match of knowledge, skills, abilities, experience and education required for the job and needs to match your verbal presentation. In more informal networking it can be used to follow up or leave behind to be perused to remind the reader of your potential value. Developing a new resume is definitely a launching point for most of my clients. They often have undersold themselves - downplaying their background and skills or providing little information other than a job description. A new strong resume organizes your thinking, helps to prepare you for the interview, develops core language for other written communications and increases your confidence. You will have a strong writing partner and editor who has co-written thousands of resumes.