Primed for Success: Writing a Resume that Tells Your Story, Gets You Noticed, and Lands You Interviews
You already know that all job seekers need resumes. And you’ve probably received tons of advice from your parents, your university’s career services center, and online resources. How can anyone make sense of all that competing input?
Your resume’s primary function is to get you the interview. It is essentially a marketing asset that clearly communicates your ability to solve problems for prospective employers. In this session, we’ll break it all down, step by step, looking at all the ingredients needed to make an effective resume. You’ll learn:
- The importance of clearly communicating your target job, profession, and industry
- How to write a compelling professional summary that articulates your “secret sauce”
- What are keywords and why do they matter
- How to write your accomplishments so employers see what you’re capable of
- Formatting guidelines to make your resume easy to read and visually appealing
- What non-work details to include
- Resume red flags and things to avoid
- How your resume is different from your LinkedIn profile
You’ll come away with actionable items and downloadable resources and templates to equip you for writing an effective resume that gets you noticed and positions you for job search success.
In-person session offerings are on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Meg McCormick Martin, SHRM-SCP
Meg McCormick Martin, SHRM-SCP, is the founder and principal consultant of HRMeg LLC. After 30 years in a variety of Human Resources roles in and around Washington DC, Meg turned a side hustle into a thriving resume writing business. She has provided individualized service to more than 100 clients of all career stages, helping them transform their resumes and LinkedIn profiles to tell their career story and land interviews for their dream jobs.
Meg considers it a calling of the highest order to help young professionals launch their careers. She has given numerous presentations on resume writing and job searching to groups of college students.
Meg also provides outsourced HR and consulting services to small businesses. In addition to SHRM, she is a member of the Montgomery County, MD SHRM chapter, the American Payroll Association, and the National Resume Writers’ Association, whose certification as an online profile expert she earned in 2022.
When she’s not working, Meg enjoys traveling, bread-baking, knitting, and choral singing. She lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland with her husband and youngest son. Her website is HRMeg.com.