Is Your Résumé
Doing Its Job?

Sandra came to me with a long list of skills and qualities that she wanted transformed into a résumé. Sandra is an extraordinary young woman, but her somewhat meandering list of strengths gave little indication of her many accomplishments. (One initiative alone saved her employer her annual salary!) Together we crafted a dynamic and exciting résumé that accurately showed what Sandra is capable of. It gave her the material, and the confidence she needed to ask for and receive a pay increase and a new job title in the short term, and to quickly land a new position when she was ready to make her move.

Nancy came to me when the communications company she worked for suddenly closed its doors. Nancy had an exceptional record of accomplishment in managing complex technical projects, but she now wanted to make a shift into more customer-oriented work. We were able to draw out Nancy's "people skills" (which were many) and present her as a highly accomplished leader. She soon secured a job as a technical services manager, managing people instead of hardware.

Dominic had also suffered from the tightening up of the communications market. He was an upper level manager whose strength lay in team building and developing and implementing efficient, corporate-wide computer strategies. (In one year Dominic had saved nearly his entire department's budget through a number of initiatives.) None of this was evident from his original résumé. His new resume shows him to be a capable leader and motivator who always has his eye on the company's bottom line.