By Meg Guiseppi
You're suddenly facing a job search, so you rush right to your resume (if you can find it) to update it. But wait! You may not be ready to tackle your resume yet.
If it's been several years since you revisited your resume, or if you're one of those lucky people who never needed a
resume, you may not be aware of how much resumes have changed in the past several years.
Before working on your resume, re-think how to update it, so that you'll create a career marketing document that will optimally do its job – land you interviews.
Have you been paying
attention to all the talk these days about personal branding? How your brand should be built around what makes you a good fit for your target employers? How resume branding can help you clearly identify and communicate what differentiates you from your job-seeking competitors?
Most importantly, you may not understand that step one in job search is NOT diving right into writing your
resume.
Step one in a successful job search is laying out the groundwork with targeting and branding. Once you've done that, you'll have the information about your target audience and yourself that you'll need to write a compelling resume and to network and interview effectively.
Here are 10 tips to build an interview-generating, brand-reinforcing resume:
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