![]() ![]() I created an addendum for details of his many additional credentials, and I instructed the client to bring this with him as a leave-behind for interviews.Ĭonservative design elements and coloring used in the résumé help make it eye-appealing, but appropriate and acceptable to the target industryĪnne was an accomplished and award-winning technology executive who was enthralled with disruptive technologies and had built a career as the visionary IT leader in rapidly growing and turnaround companies across a variety of industries, each involved with disruptive technologies in their own ways. Notable highlights for each are called out in a bulleted box. ![]() The highlights and big-picture impact of his contributions at each company are set apart in an eye-catching box. The structure, formatting, and design of the entire résumé was created to succinctly convey his many technical qualifications and make them as easy-to-read as possible at just a glance. Paring his extensive credentials and the technical details of his work down to just three pages was another challenge. He simply wasn’t used to thinking about his work in these terms and this was further complicated by the fact that it truly was difficult to quantify many of his accomplishments. It took some extensive consulting with the client to get him to think about his work in terms of results and benefits-especially results or benefits that we could quantify. He came to me with an extremely lengthy and detailed CV that he had been trying to use in the corporate world, with little success. This client was an extremely well educated, non-practicing MD and expert in global clinical R&D within the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. The client’s earlier experience was included to illustrate the breadth of his skills, which are applicable to industries other than healthcare, although the client had chosen to pursue expertise in that narrow niche. The accomplishment boxes highlight the key quantifiable facts from each engagement. The rest of the résumé showcases some of the more recent and significant projects he has worked on, in CAR format. ![]() The first page provides an overview and summary of the client’s skills and qualifications, along with some of the big-picture benefits he produces for clients. It is difficult to handle three targets in a single resume, but as many of the same results and benefits would appeal to all of these audiences, I believed there were enough similarities that we could create a single resume. He felt there were three possible paths:ġ) Use the resume in his efforts to build more business for his own consulting firmĢ) Seek out partnership opportunities with another small consulting firm that offered complementary servicesģ) Be employed by a larger consulting firm and given charge of a practice area However, he was concerned that the industry was changing and that he may need to adapt his approach in order to continue to prosper in his specialty. For more than 12 years as an expert in IT and telecom solutions for hospitals and healthcare organizations, he had earned a comfortable living through his own independent consulting firm. The client had three possible goals with this resume. We decided to include it but leave it undated. Considering that he worked within a highly regulated industry, he had leveraged this experience in his prior positions and we wanted to call attention to it in his resume even though it was from quite some time ago. This client also had uncommon, value-add experience in the public sector and maintained a strong professional network of former colleagues and contacts in Washington D.C. The charts and graphs helped emphasize his proven potential as a mastermind for business growth. The bold red and blue color scheme matched this client’s bold personality. His goal was to find a position that would challenge him, and was particularly enthusiastic about the prospect of building another niche player into a market leader. Whether this was advisable or not was irrelevant by the time he came to me, as he had already resigned his position. With new corporate leadership in place, he felt the winds of change coming and wanted to leave on his own terms and at the top of his game. ![]() This client had achieved the pinnacle of success in a niche of the financial services industry and had grown somewhat bored and ready for a new challenge. ![]()
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