The last item that sets Susan’s resume apart is the directness in describing each role in the first sentence of that section, and then in stating her results in that role.
Examples:
- 1st Role Description: Hired to lead Company A's efforts in attracting, recruiting and retaining top talent.
- Result: Increased talent base by more than 20% in 6 months by developing new recruitment channels and approaches.
- 2nd Role Description: Drove development and implementation of global product marketing, branding, launch and solution strategies and plans for more than 10 major products including 4 industry-leaders.
- Result: Consistently achieved or exceeded revenue targets and operational goals.
- Result: Established planning, messaging, branding and launch process protocols that became benchmark standards.
One of the things that makes Susan's resume very clean to read is that she does not use italicized or bold words for emphasis. She lets the results speak for themselves.
In this sequence of posts, we focused on a few items out of a remarkable resume to help you think about ways to write your own resume to make it stand out more. To refresh, these are the four aspects we covered:
- The use of recommendations.
- What makes for good recommendations.
- Parallel Construction between recommendations and listed roles.
- Detailed descriptions of results.
Once again, I'd like to thank Susan MacCaul in allowing us to peak at her resume a bit. Good stuff!
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