Career Advice & Insights

A vice president of entertainment and television had the people skills to make any situation a ‘win-win,’ but needed help to make her resume shine as bright as her tenured career. Allyson Terry-Goldsby spent 16 years as a marketing and management executive in the television industry. The southern California resident had been vice president of … Read More

Keara Fortson’s project-management experience told her to focus on the bottom line, but her resume writer helped her to balance numbers with the whole story. Quantify your return on investment, career experts say. Show results, numbers and accomplishments. But are resumes more than that? Well, they should be if you want to get noticed and … Read More

A sales resume can highlight broad skills and experience even in a narrow industry. “John” had a few things going against him. He had been out of work because of a car accident a few years back, he wanted to relocate to California, and he felt he should consider changing industries. But his firm commitment … Read More

A law-enforcement officer used a detailed questionnaire and keywords from the job description to tailor his resume for a federal government job. Paying attention to what an employer is telling you about a job opening may be the key to filling it. But where do you find what’s important to an employer? “When perusing a … Read More

Karen Caswelch had worked at a General Motors subsidiary for 20 years. Her new resume opens new routes for her talents. Karen Caswelch had been working for the same company for 20 years when she decided, in April 2008, to take some time off and reassess her career after her company was sold to a … Read More

When scanning a resume, HR pros ‘want infomercials, not Tolstoy,’ resume writer Richard Hoffman explains. Here’s how he wrangled the weighty bona fides of a health care professional. Looking for a new position in a new city is hard enough without relying on a resume that is nine pages long. “Bradley” (who requested that his … Read More

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