Crafting a Killer ResumeContents

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: Know Thyself

What are your strengths?

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: Sell Thyself

Translating your strengths so others understand them

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: Be Relevant to the Opportunity

Mapping your resume to what the company is looking for

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: Write it up!

Using your selling points and the job requirements to write a killer resume and cover letter

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Your resume shouldn’t just be a chronology of your life and work experience. You get to select everything that goesinto it, and it’s potentially the only resource an employer will look at on the first glance. It’s worth taking a fair bit of time to think hard about how you’re presenting yourself. Through the following exercises, we’ll help you reflect onyour strengths and how to best communicate your experience and skillset to an employer.

What do you consider to be your top 5 selling points?Selling points

Examples: Experienced salesperson; 15 years business development; deep knowledge of environmental issues

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Okay, now look at what you wrote. Take out the two most generic-sounding qualities. Rewrite.Selling points

Examples: Experienced salesperson; 15 years business development; deep knowledge of environmental issues

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© Bright Green Talent 2009 | www.brightgreentalent.comThe proof is in the pudding. Now write down two quantitative examples that concretely display these traits. Some tips: use numbers, timelines, and dollar amounts – the more specific you canbe, the more that achievement will mean to an outside reader

Selling Point Proof 1 Proof 2

Example: Outstanding consultant with astrong record of achievement Was the youngest person of 1000 graduate employees to be promoted tosenior consultant in my first year In the first year, I billed $250,000, over twice the average of my peers.

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: SELL THYSELF