In addition to your tasks, responsibilities, and accomplishments, employers now seek some stories behind your accomplishments. Storytelling helps them understand how you make things happen. The method I use to present your unique stories is the C.C.A.R Method (Context-Challenge-Action-Result), which builds stories around your accomplishments and skill set to highlight your unique value.
Many clients have told me they were substantially better prepared for their interviews after completing this process.
To gather your data, l send you 3 worksheets (one at a time).
Worksheet #1
Source Material: This worksheet confirms your most recent contact details. It gathers information about your guiding values, how you make things happen, your core strengths, and what differentiates you from others - your added value.
It also prompts you to check your existing information regarding Education - Certifications, Professional Development - Licenses - Languages, Professional Organizations - Volunteerism - Technical Skills - Speaking Engagements - Presentations - Memberships - Affiliations.
Worksheet #2
Challenge-Action-Results for your accomplishment stories. This worksheet comes with sample data from former clients (without their names or organizations) and gives you an idea of the amount and nature of information required.
The feedback from numerous clients tells me they found this process the perfect groundwork for the following interviews.
Worksheet #3
Skills/Competencies Checklist: This worksheet lists the Skills and Competencies familiar to your target audience and allows you to delete any unfamiliar ones or add others you would like to include, then select your Top 40 from the finished list.
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First Draft Preparation: Then, I generate the first draft of the Master Résumé Document with a career profile value statement and make fundamental decisions on the tone, language, and voice that will be most effective for the targeted audiences and decision makers.
Polished Final Resume Preparation: Final formatting and visual elements are reviewed and completed, and proofreading, grammar/spell-checking, and ATS-compatibility processes are conducted.
Feedback for Tweaking: Before we edit, I have you review the information in the draft and let me know what corrections, clarifications, or edits you would like me to make.
Send you the Updated: Resume, Cover Letter, and a Plain Text Version for me to use for LinkedIn before I do your LinkedIn profile do your LinkedIn profile. Before I do your LinkedIn profile, I get you to review the text version of your résumé and delete anything you do not want to appear online. (LinkedIn restricts the number of characters in each section, so I might have to edit more here and there). Then update your LinkedIn profile.
You receive:
✫ Master Résumé document formatted in MS Word.
(Also, tailor your résumé and cover letter for the first job description you plan to apply for.)
✫ PDF version of the Master Résumé document.
✫ An ATS-compatible version of Résumé in MS Word (Text Only).
✫ Master Cover Letter formatted in MS Word.
✫ LinkedIn Profile Optimization.