Whether you have started the New Year motivated to change your job or career as soon as possible, or you simply need to revisit your resumé file to make sure it is up to date, the task of creating or revising it can be incredibly daunting. Capturing your career to date, plus effectively communicating it, is an overwhelming task. Fredia Woolf’s “A New Model for your Job Search – Part 2: Resumé” article helps break down the real purpose of the resumé as well as how to approach its creation or revision.

Woolf describes the resumé as fulfilling a dual purpose: clearly communicating your professional self, and persuading others that you are the answer to the problem they’re seeking to solve. To these ends, Woolf points out and describes to her readers the following areas to which specific attention should be given when composing and reviewing your resumé:

1. Choose a specific format, and stick to it to make learning about you quick and easy to the reader.
2. Write so as to clearly communicate the value you add to the open position.
3. Compel the reader to want to know more about you through straight-forward, powerful language.
4. Make sure your mindset is positive and confident so as to convey the same through your written words.

Given the number of outlets for networking and distributing your resumé, this document is going to be seen by many. Therefore, it deserves very specific attention. This article is a great resource to focus on some basics at the beginning of your process. Check it out so you are confident that you are communicating your best, most qualified self through your professional marketing document.

Woolf, Fredia. “A New Model for your Job Search – Part 2: Resumé.” ExecSearches.com. ExecSearches.com. 1999. Web. (30 Dec. 2015)

Nancy Stoker is a Senior Client Services Representative and Research Associate with ExecSearches.com.

Last updated on January 11th, 2016 at 12:07 pm