Resume writing tips that will make updating your resume fun!

1. 7 WAYS TO MAKE RESUME WRITING EFFECTIVE
AND **FUN**!
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2. Play the GAME
Resume
Cover Letter
LinkedIn®
Job Search Strategy

3. 1. Concentration
Sell yourself!
6-second rule
Match Yourself Up!

4. The Keyword Optimization Game
ATS Optimization Findings
Company: Google
Job Title: Technical Program Manager, Leadership, Payments Merchant
Original Match Rate: 22%
New Match Rate: 80%+

5. 2. Branding – Dare to Be Different!

6. 3. POWER UP Your Verbs!
POWER verbs – VARY your verbs!
• How many ways are there to say “Increased”?
• How many ways are there to say “Managed”?
• LET’s play it NOW!!

7. What happens when you eliminate…
Responsible
for
Instead, list what
you
accomplished
Various,
Variety, etc.
Instead, list
specific
examples.
Assisted,
Helped
Instead, state
specifically what
you did.
Exception:
Helping
professions, e.g.
health aide

8. 4. GO on a Treasure Hunt
NUMBERS
• How many? How much time?
How much $?
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• How did you
change/improve something?
• What did it look like before?

9. Treasure Hunt
NUMBERS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• PROJECT & PROGRAM LEADERSHIP:
Increased EBIT $3.6M by negotiating cost
incentive clause and motivating workforce to
contain expenses; turned around project
experiencing cost overruns to $11M surplus,
a 28% improvement.
• CUSTOMER SATISFACTION: Achieved multiple
100% Customer award fees scores, up from
85%.
• UPSELLING: Increased revenues by 66%
average per sale, achieving order upgrades
for 70% of customers.

10. Treasure Hunt
HIDDEN JOBS!
• Job Search Success System
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search-success-system/

11. 5. Great Quotations
QUOTATION
•Testimonial
•Great quote about your
philosophy

12. Great Quotations!

13. Great Quotations!

14. 6. Visual Representation
Graphs!!

15. 7. Truth or Dare!
Which do you
choose?

16. Don’t Struggle Alone
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