Leading Expert in Your Resume? You.
Artificial Intelligence is not capable of creating a personalized core [or foundation] of an effective resume and LinkedIn profile. Although it is fun to watch AI do its thing, it doesn’t craft an authentic and differentiated professional persona which showcases your skills, achievements, and interests. This can only be curated by you, as the expert in your own life. Your personal insight is what drives a genuinely interesting and note-worthy application.
A resume that lands on the top of the pile, remains one of the most difficult documents to create. Only after taking time to reflect and talk through your many successes, understanding the impact of your decisions, and articulating your goals going forward, will you begin to build a resume that reflects your talents.
Purpose of a Resume and LinkedIn Profile:
Let’s back up a bit and wrap our heads around the purpose of a resume and a LinkedIn Profile. Taken together, the resume provides a succinct summary of the clients’ achievements, and the LinkedIn profile rounds out the resume and offers an introduction to the applicants’ personality, interests, and points of pride. Recruiters view both the resume and on-line profiles to evaluate and rank candidates.
Why Should I Hire you?
Not an easy question to answer. When we are in the midst of our work experiences, it is challenging to isolate the most impressive experiences and we often need assistance articulating our wins. When the client is asked powerful questions, persuasive data is illuminated. After reflection and coaching assistance, your one-two page [resume] story becomes more interesting.
Humans asking the right questions:
Recently, I was working with a VP who, like the rest of us, struggled to articulate many of his multi-tiered successes beyond the organization’s measured outcomes. It was our conversation and the “ah-hah” moments that arose that now earn space on his resume, provide talking points for his interviews, and ideas to further personalize his LinkedIn Profile.
Spend time reflecting on your work, draft a showcase of your accomplishments and talk through the complexities of their experiences with a professional with recent hiring experience. If a student, head to your Career Center on campus or meet with a professor you admire. If a working professional, connect with a Career Coach or a colleague in Human Resources.
LinkedIn Profiles:
LinkedIn offers us a more dynamic platform to share your professional story, personality, interests, volunteer experiences, and photos for all to enjoy. AI, if given the opportunity, only seems to stifle the profile and persona, making you seem like so many others.
We appreciate that the header (tiny blurb below your name) has the most weight in the LinkedIn search algorithms so don’t leave that creative opportunity up to AI. Stay true to your tone and trust your instincts to allow your personality and style to bubble up to the surface. You are an interesting, valued gift to many and only you can best articulate you.
Happy to further chat, email me at mary@cannoncareercoaching.com or click into Cannon Career Coaching to learn more. Take good care and blue skies ahead.
Mary Cannon, Cannon Career Coaching