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Resume Makeover: CFO Revamps His Presentation on Paper – Before and After

Editor’s note: In this bi-monthly feature, CareerJournal.com presents before and after resumes of actual job hunters. The name of the candidate, his prior employers and contact information have been changed.

Clifford had been excited about becoming chief financial officer of a start-up pharmaceutical company. But the travel demands of his new job turned out to be excessive, and he became disillusioned about how the company was being run. In October 2004, just six months after joining the company, he realized it was time to trot out his resume and start hunting for a new opportunity.

But the resume he trotted out wasn’t up to par. He wrote it himself, and it didn’t sell him very well. Troubled by the lack of response he was receiving, he sought a free assessment of his document through an executive-networking group he had joined. The assignment went to Judy Friedler, founder of CareerPro International of Amherst, N.Y., and Toronto.

She found several problems. "He was targeting the executive market, but his resume wasn’t fleshed out enough," says Ms. Friedler. "It didn’t provide enough accomplishments or explain his scope of responsibilities for the companies he worked for. It was very plain vanilla."

By Perri Capell

Full Story: http://www.careerjournal.com/jobhunting/resumes/20050526-capell.html?cjcontent=mail

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