Strategic Résumé Development
One-Day In-House Workshop
Improve your organization’s impact, effectiveness, and outcomes!
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Are you ready to take your team’s résumé writing abilities to the next level?
Today’s résumés are strategic. They effectively address each client’s unique value proposition along with any barriers and obstacles to employment. If your staff has not updated their knowledge of current résumé strategy for a while you owe it to your team – and your clients – to get up-to-speed. In this one-day workshop, we’ll debunk many myths and misconceptions and ensure that your clients’ résumés meet the standards demanded by today’s job market.
In this program, Sharon Graham will share her expertise about how to write and format state-of-the-art résumés. You’ll learn tips and techniques to dig up powerful accomplishment statements. You’ll learn how to incorporate powerful wording and modern design elements to ensure that your clients get the edge in their career transition.
Improve your organization’s impact, effectiveness, and outcomes!
Progressive career development organizations understand that they must invest in themselves and their staff. This program is for all team members who want to bring their strategic résumé writing skills up-to-date. Participation in this workshop provides an opportunity to step away from the intensity of day-to-day activities and think critically about the work being performed on behalf of job-seeking clients.
This workshop will help standardize services related to strategic résumé development. Your team members will receive the resources and knowledge they need to inspire clients. By applying new techniques and models, your team will be able to enhance the consistency, quality, and credibility of services being delivered. You will not only increase employee satisfaction, but you’ll produce better results for your organization by improving overall outcomes.
This is an intensive one-day in-person workshop for career development service providers.
By participating in this dynamic, interactive workshop, your organization will gain practical experience and skill through the study of examples and the hands-on application of new-found knowledge. Participants will boost their confidence and competency in résumé writing mechanics, and learn to help clients produce strategic résumés for the real-world labour market.
Here’s what participants will learn during the session:
- Applying a Value Proposition Model to develop strategic, targeted résumés.
- Creating strong client profiles using future-focused creative writing strategies and other modern techniques.
- Understanding Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and how to improve relevance, ranking, and selection.
- Employing keywords effectively to address human readers and robots.
- Uncovering and writing effective accomplishment statements using a competency chart, and SMART and SAR.
- Addressing elimination factors and improving readability, scan-ability, and peruse-ability.
- Mitigating various client barriers to employment in the résumé.
- Reviewing, evaluating, and selecting a range of contemporary documents and designs.
Demonstrate your organization’s commitment to ongoing professional development. To give your team members highly personalized attention and mentoring, class sizes are limited. Upon successful completion of this workshop, all participants will receive a course completion certificate. Your staff will also earn credits towards any Continuing Education Units (CEUs) required.
If your staff has never had an opportunity to complete our industry-leading online RES-01 and RES-02 certificate courses, or if you want an in-person, in-house refresher, this workshop is for you!
Get valuable resource material that you will use again and again.
Participants come away from this workshop with a file folder full of tips, techniques, and tools that they can deploy immediately and then translate into organizational policies, procedures, and practices.
About the workshop facilitator:
Sharon Graham is Executive Director of Career Professionals of Canada and author of leading career publications including Best Canadian Résumés, Best Canadian Cover Letters, and The Canadian Résumé Strategist. She is the architect behind CPC’s Advanced Résumé Development Certificate Program and the Certified Résumé Strategist (CRS) credential. She researched and developed the curriculum for CPC’s Real-World Résumé Strategy and Technology Optimized Résumés courses among other professional development programs.
A pioneer of innovations in the Canadian career development sector, Sharon has established certification, awards, mentoring, and networking programs for practitioners across the nation.
Prepare your organization for the future of strategic résumé writing!
