Resume

Ace salesman Noble lives by the numbers – but they were hard to find in his resume until Tina Harlan helped him tally up his value. In sales, it’s all about the numbers. Here’s an example of what sales accomplishments should look like on a resume: A pharmaceutical company has 1,500-plus employees and annual revenues … Read More

How clear job targeting and a full reorganization afford a hospital director new opportunities in executive-level health care positions. Carla Fore, a registered nurse and hospital manager who holds an MBA and a master’s in organizational psychology, has always tended to her own resume over a 30-year career. “I have updated my resume every year … Read More

Amy Montalbano’s expertise is in sales operations, but her bullet-riddled resume failed to sell what she offers her next employer. A simple recipe for a do-it-yourself resume: Just use the standard Microsoft Word resume template, replete with all-bullet format and objective statement at the top. It’s quick, it’s cheap – and it screams “inexperienced” to … Read More

Marcus Crayton is looking for a job as a marketing director though his functional experience is disparate. With help from certified resume writer Mary Schumacher he was able to turn a wordy resume into a concise marketing document. When crafting a resume, you can use the bow-and-arrow approach specifically to target a job, or you … Read More

Revamping a sales-focused resume for a career change This month’s “Does Your Resume Stink?” contest winner is a sales professional who wants to steer her career away from sales jobs and towards marketing and brand management jobs. Yet her original resume still emphasized her sales skills over her marketing prowess. It needed a near-complete overhaul … Read More

Anne Neczypor soothed personality disputes and eased tensions in her last role as editor of Broadcast Standards & Practices. But how do you detail these accomplishments without writing a “fluffy” resume? In the writers’ room, creative teams used to answer phone calls from the corporate office formally, rigidly, even coldly. It didn’t take long before … Read More

Former HR VP Kathleen Roesing had trouble standing out. With the help of a certified professional resume writer, she added detail to her hr generalist resume. Everyone can use a little help with their resume, including, ironically, former recruiters. Take Kathleen Roesing of Bucks County, Pa. Roesing is a human resources generalist with 20+ years … Read More

Forget what you’ve been told about chronological resumes. It’s easy to find advice on how to format resumes–just Google “proper resume format.” Just because it’s easy to find doesn’t make such advice correct or up to date, however. One example that crops up in many resume advice sites and gets passed along by well-meaning friends, … Read More

Don’t slay your reader with too many bullet points. Solid, unbroken chunks of text are daunting to read in any format. So the best advice for those writing their own resume has always been to lighten the task by describing their work experience in sharp bulleted sentences instead of paragraphs. But be careful not to … Read More