Building a Purpose-Driven Resume

I recently had the pleasure of interacting with a group of young professionals on how to strategically think about their resume.  Too often in career planning the resume building process is treated as a "how-good-can-I-make-my-word-document-look" and is driven more by what gets bolded and italicized versus what experience and qualifications will wow a prospective employer.  This is similar to getting in your car in Los Angeles heading "East" hoping you end up in New York.   Just because you're going in the right general direction doesn't mean you'll land at the right destination.  Way too much left up to chance. 

The interaction that I had with this group was terrific and we had a lot of "a-ha's" during our time together.  I thought that I would give the presentation I used a bit of double duty and make it available to you as well with my compliments.  At the end of the presentation there is an exercise which is geared to help you think more strategically about your resume and put an action plan together to plug the holes in your resume.