Recipe for Success from a Man In the Know

In his 8/23/13 appearance on the John Gambling show, billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg articulated his recipe for success. I dare say this prosperous entrepreneur and three term mayor of NYC commands our attention and his words should be taken seriously based on his demonstrated record of success.

 

Three specific points he made resonate with me and I offer them as sound advice for the unemployed and for those who are currently employed and desire career advancement in the not too distant future.

Point # 1: “Ambitious people should be willing to buck the conventional wisdom...” 

 

Point # 2: “If you’re scared to take risks, you’re just gonna fit in with the crowd and never break average and probably won’t even make average...”

 

Point #3: “I always tried to be the first one in in the morning and the last one to leave at night…”

 

As many of you already know from following my blogging these past five years, when it comes to all things related to résumé writing and conducting a job search, the backbone of my business, I too am an advocate of bucking the system and conventional wisdom and of taking calculated risks to achieve the desired results. Time after time I’ve seen risk taking deliver results well beyond job seekers wildest expectations. So here is some additional food for thought I hope can help you to be more successful in your job search and and throughout your career.

 

A: When submitting a résumé should you submit the best document you are capable of writing, or should it be the best one you are capable of acquiring? 

 

Most résumés submitted for jobs today depict a candidate who fits in with the crowd; someone who, at best, can be considered an average new hire. Do these résumé get results? Some people are even capable of writing a résumé that reaches the highest level of mediocrity or slightly exceeds this level of competency. Will this résumé generate quality interviews and job offers? 

 

If you have come to the proper conclusion that a mediocre, or slightly above mediocre résumé will not yield optimum results – and this is not acceptable – then I propose you take a risk and do something about it.

 

B: People preaching (and following) conventional wisdom believe resume styles, formats, and visual presentations that have withstood the test of time are the best or only way to go. Truth be told, more people today are generating interviews and job offers by bucking conventional wisdom and submitting innovative résumés that may include color, pictures, logos, endorsements, hyperlinks, and a multi column approach. The key is in your knowing how and where to break with conventional wisdom, and knowing what works best for you.  

 

C: Many professionals I have spoken to will temper their ambition when it comes to using LinkedIn and other social media especially if they are currently employed and open to a strategic career move. They are under the erroneous assumption, based on widely espoused conventional wisdom, that if your boss or a fellow employee notices you’ve upgraded your LinkedIn profile that you’re immediately suspect of being unhappy and can’t be trusted any longer. Let me tell you here and now, the risk of being highly visible on LinkedIn is negligible compared to the rewards. 

 

The truth is fewer people use LinkedIn as a job search tool than those who use it as the relationship management tool it is meant to be. For a professional to succeed at his or her job today it is imperative that you have a LinkedIn page that lets people know what you do and how well you do it. This allows you to be found by people you need to be found by including new vendors, potential clients and customers, peers and fellow professionals who you can learn from, people who want to seek, and may even pay you for advise, and of course recruiters and companies seeking talent.

 

D: Many people, especially at certain stages of their career, get sedentary and fall into a lazy pattern at work and in their job search. I am not one to espouse being a workaholic during your entire career – finding the proper work/life balance is important. However giving 100% is essential to achieving success. If putting extra hours and effort into your job search or current job is what it takes to reach your desired goal, well so be it. That’s what you must do. 

 

In life you can either continue to dream the dream your entire life or do what it takes to try and live your dream life.

 

Don’t let outdated conventional wisdom, laziness and a stubborn unwillingness to take risks stand in your way of reaching your goals. If this recipe for success worked for Mayor Bloomberg it can also work for you. 

 

As always I am available to review US resumes if you email it to perry@perrynewman.com
 

Strategic Planning and Critical Thinking – Two keys to career and job search success

I work extensively with executives and career professionals and for many it is essential that my résumés convey their ability as a strategic planner and critical thinker because these are prerequisites to their landing a new job or internal promotion. Strategic planning and critical thinking are also prerequisites in career planning and conducting a successful job search.

 

Successful executives and professionals plan strategically, think critically and act decisively. They can see the here and now and at the same time envision what the future will look like if they control circumstances and conditions. Moreover, they are skilled at effectively balancing short term solutions versus long term gains while making swift, decisive decisions based on their facility to gather and analyze relevant information and harness a wide-range of available resources.

 

From entry level to later career stages everyone in the workplace must be aware of where they are at each juncture and it is imperative to project where we want to9 be 2 years and 5 years down the road and what is required to get there.

 

So let me leave you with some points to make you a better career planner and job seeker. 

 

A. Consider your current situation, position and career path and project the steps you need to take to get ahead. Analyze it thoroughly using available data and insights from peers and others you trust, and determine a course of action to reach your desired results. Explore business magazines, trade journals, websites and related publications to keep current with your industry, your peers, and your company’s competitors and how they operate.

 

B. Organize your thoughts and your immediate and longer term priorities. Create multiple scenarios on how you will get from step A to Step B and beyond and keep an open mind to take advantage of sudden opportunities or impediments to your goal should they arise.

 

C: Think about what is keeping you in a stagnant state and force yourself to break out of a safe but unhealthy situation and consider best-case and worst-case scenarios of the changes you must make to get ahead in your career and job search.

 

D: Understand that for most of you, the business world and the process of conducting a job search has changed since you were last in this position.  Stop doing the same things that have not shown any tangible results and look for innovative new actions to propel your career and job search forward and not backwards.

 

E: When things don’t go according to plan, look at why and don’t rush to change. Be pragmatic and try and ascertain what exactly went wrong; was it the plan, the execution, natural unavoidable occurrences, or was it your attitude.

 

F: The best strategy to get ahead is through helping others. Discuss what you are looking to accomplish with people you trust on an ongoing basis and keep them involved in your plans and remain involved in theirs as much as possible.

 

G: Look at your career goals and job search strategy from another perspective – that of an employee or recruiter and see what this does for you.

 

H: Most of all track of your actions and analyze your successes and failures, and at the end of every day tell yourself “I am now one day closer to finally arriving at my desired goal and tomorrow will be that day.”

 

As always I am available to review US resumes and offer my advice if you email it to perry@perrynewman.com

Ten Ways To Make Bullet Points Hit The Mark!

In a résumé bullet points are meant to easily draw attention to information that allows decision makers to determine if you're a worthy candidate for the job.  Not to my surprise, when I recently asked people who screen résumés about bullet points they told me most résumés they see are inundated with bullet points but most of the bullet points fail to hit the mark?

With this in mind, here are a few pointers when preparing bullet points to include in a Professional Profile, Summary of Qualifications or Experience section of a résumé; all areas where bullet points aid in telling the story you want to get across to the decision maker.

1. Make certain the bullet point has value that makes the reader want to read on and learn more about you.
   
2. Understand that a bullet point need not be a full sentence or have a period at the end.
   
3. Many bullet points offer statistics and supporting data such as in achievements. The key is to write them so they come across as interesting reading and not as boiler plate pronouncements.
   
4. When using consecutive bullet points leave breathing room between them so each one stands out. For me this is the most irksome and often made mistake I see in résumés and I think it renders them unreadable.
   
5. Bullet points are meant to be visually appealing in a résumé while bullet point sub headings are distracting.
   
6. There are many choices on your computer’s bullet library, the trick is to choose the one most appealing to your story and to stay consistent.
   
7. In a résumé’s bullet points don’t overdo italics and bold fonts they will have the opposite effect than the one you desire.
   
8. Know when to use bullet points and when information should be offered in a sentence or a paragraph.
   
9. Bullet points are meant to create a visual appeal in a résumé so make sure this is the case when you insert one, and be conscious not overuse bullet points so as to detract from the document’s visual appeal.  
10. The secret to writing a great bullet point is brevity, especially in today’s “Twitter Age”, so work extra hard to make your point as briefly as possible, and when needed make one bullet point into two.

As always I am available to review US resumes if you email it to perry@perrynewman.com

Why a résumé may fail to generate interest

Last week I reviewed 15 résumés from my blog readers and after speaking with them at length I found only 5 résumés established a personal brand and corroborated it by showing how uniquely qualified they were for the jobs they were applying for.

 

This statistical trend is consistent with the feedback I’ve gotten from talent acquisition specialists I am in close contact with.

 

Let me clarify this based on the two key sections of a résumé.

 

Section One: The Professional Profile & Summary Statement section

 

Many professional and executive résumés begin with a Professional Profile or Summary Statement that is written like a run-on sentence and contiguous paragraph. The result being they are difficult to read and the points they try to make fail to stand out and often go unread. Upon questioning, I found out many were written this way because the writer preferred to conserve space to add more details somewhere else at the expense of making an impact with what was written here.This is foolish since this is where the reader forms their first impression about you. 

 

Another problem I see is many of these statements overemphasize the job seeker’s past without focusing on the positions they are applying for. This makes them come across as overqualified for the job they are being considered for, therefore the reader rejects the résumé at this point without looking any further.

 

The most egregious error I find is commonality. As I go over a Profile or Summary statement point by point / sentence by sentence with someone I always ask two simple questions. One is “does this describe you and what you have to offer an employer.” The answer is almost always an emphatic “Yes.” The second question is “how many other candidates applying for this job can write this same sentence because it applies equally to them as well.” Not surprising, the response here is 60% to 85% of the competition.

 

The first impression I and most people skilled at screening résumés get is not the impression the writer intended. Rather than showcasing a uniquely qualified candidate for the job, the delivered message is “I’m one of X# of qualified candidates you can choose from.”    

 

Section Two: The Experience & Career Progression section

 

Here too there are several misconceptions in the way many résumés are written. The most formidable ones, being a lack of context and validation.

 

What I often read is an overabundance of details and cliché accomplishments, much of which has little or no relevance to the job being applied for. Worse yet, the bullet point achievements are crammed together so tightly nothing stands out and the message gets lost or is never read.

 

The next common mistake in this section is repeating the same information job after job, making the reader think this is all you have to offer, when what you really desire is to be doing something different or new on your next job.

 

A killer mistake made by older jobseekers is often going back far into the past when what you did 15 or more years ago has little relevance to the jobs you’re applying for. All you are accomplishing is allowing screeners to justify calling you overqualified which is often a code name for too old.

 

I also get turned off by many of the so called accomplishments I read because they only focus on qualitative facts without giving any specifics about how they were obtained and most lack any perspective about how much of an accomplishment they actually are.

 

As a courtesy I critique U.S. resumes and offer suggestions on how to improve them at no cost. perry@perrynewman.com

When & Why Objective Statements On A Résumé May Be Objectionable

Whether to include an Objective Statement in a résumé is still widely debated and there’s no universal answer to resolve the dispute.  As a professional résumé writer, when asked this question my answer lies not in “whether to include one” rather “for whom, how and when” an Objective Statement can be used – if at all. 

So here are some random thoughts on the topic to mull over, learn from, and determine if they apply to you.

 

First some background. The Objective Statement began in a totally different day and age when résumés were written in a uniform style for almost all jobs and when job titles were more generic. Also at that time résumés were submitted by hand, mail, and later by fax when there was no such thing as job boards, résumé databases and tracking software. Likewise, it was commonplace for decision makers to read a résumé not just spend 6-30 seconds, according to many, scanning one or inputting some key words and having a computer select the résumés to read.

 

For the most part, early résumés weren’t written to tell the story of what makes a person special and better than someone else. Instead they were Fact Sheets that followed the convention of the day telling the reader what job is being applied for, how many years of overall experience the candidate has and what this/her prior duties and responsibilities entailed, and what is the level of  their education.

 

Moreover most of these resumes were created on a typewriter (and then a word processor) with additional copies run off on 24lb to 32lb cotton rag bond paper. This process made customizing a résumé time consuming and costly. That is why résumés back then were static generic productions that employers and recruiters considered as being professional.

 

For some of you this may sound like a tale out of the Stone Age, but for many job seekers 40 and older this describes the résumé they used maybe 2 or 3 jobs ago; and unfortunately many are updating this same outdated version in 2013.

 

In my opinion, technology has advanced and business models have changed so dramatically thus making old-fashioned résumés and the aforementioned Objective Statement obsolete in most 21^st century résumés.

 

Today résumé writing, résumé screening and résumé submittals are light years advanced and the content and format in a résumé is vastly different as are the mindset of the people and machines reading them. People who screen résumés now take less time to do so, look for specific information, and want to be sold on a candidate not educated.

 

When (and why) using an Objective Statement (OS) is Objectionable

 

1: The Objective Statement is positioned at the top of Page One, the prime real estate on a résumé; therefore it is the first thing people’s eyes will gravitate to. Unless the Objective’s information is crucial, or it is the first thing you want people to know about you, placing an Objective Statement in your résumé is objectionable.  It is a waste of premium story telling space and if it fails to have an impact on people they will read no further.

 

In most cases you are better off using a Title Tagline and Brand Statement to let people know what job you want to be considered for and what makes you special and worth further consideration.

 

2: Most Objective Statements I read focus entirely or in part on what the employer can do for the job seeker. If this is the case using an Objective Statement is objectionable.

 

3. Many Objective Statements are written to be too specific. When this happens the first impression the reader gets is of a “know-what-he wants” candidate who’s over or under qualified for the job at hand and is therefore summarily dismissed from consideration before the reader ever gets to the meat and potatoes of the résumé.

 

When (and why) using an Objective Statement (OS) is Acceptable or even preferable

 

Ican think of only three circumstances when an Objective Statement should be included in a résumé: if you are making a total career transition; if you are a specialist and are seeking a very specific specialized position; if you’re a new grad who is looking for your first or second full-time professional job. A fourth may be on the rare occasions an Objective Statement is requested by the employer.   

 

When writing an objective statement, it’s important to focus on how you can benefit an employer, rather than on how the employer can benefit you. In all these instances the statement must focus on what type of work you want, your main skills and qualifications, and it must include how and/or why you will you be an asset to the company you are trying to impress.

 

As always I am available to critique U.S. resumes and offer suggestions on how to improve them at no cost. You can send me an email with your current resume to perry@perrynewman.com

Career Independence Day

This week on July 4^th America celebrates Independence Day, so why not start planning today to better your life and career without causing a fireworks display that can blow up in your face.

If you work hard and do everything asked of you - and more, and your work has a proven value and worth to your current employer, this does not guarantee you the promotion or raise you feel you deserve. Why is this?  

There are many reasons, the most common being that most companies are structured to act at their own pace and not yours, preferring to be in the driver’s seat when it comes to these types of business decisions. Another is the internal politics in play in advancing your career or in getting recognized and fairly compensated where your currently work. 

A final reason and one I find becoming alarmingly common of late are the unwritten mantras “Feel grateful you have a job” and “Everyone, especially you, can be replaced.” In talking to people, particularly those age 33 and above, it is scary to see how many men and women let this reason control their destiny. Some even accept or are afraid to report incidents of discrimination or sexual or other harassment believing if they talk up they’ll lose their job. This is frightening, but is a topic for another time. 

On another note, many people find over time their lifestyle and priorities change and the career path they are on, or were on before they lost their job, is no longer personally fulfilling or accommodating to these changes.

If you feel a change in pay, position or career path is warranted this Independence Day here are a few things I propose you seriously consider. But I caution you not to act hastily, since they require thoughtful analysis and a well-defined game plan before initiating irreversible action. 

A: Ask for a promotion, a transfer or a raise so you can continue to enjoy working where you are.

B: Look for a similar job in a company where you will be better compensated and/or appreciated. *

C: Change careers to work in an environment you’ll enjoy that also fits your needs and lifestyle. *

* Points B & C may also include going into business for yourself or with a trustworthy partner.

Before initiating action follow the steps below and get some professional insight, feedback and guidance from a trustworthy knowledgeable source to avoid a big mistake.

1: Complete your research before you act or react. When you are seeking a promotion or increase in  pay you must know what the overall market is like in your locale and, more important, you must factor in where you fit in your company’s pay structure and in your company’s plans for the future. It also pays to know what is going on inside your company in terms of financial health, M&A rumors, pending deals etc. This can offer you an insight as to whether it is better to ask for a raise or promotion – and when, or if is best to quietly look for a new job. 

If you’re considering changing careers, I suggest you first be honest with yourself and determine if it is because you are running towards something new and exciting or if you are running away from something at your current job. If it is the latter, you may just need a short break or a change in scenery rather than a change in careers.

Most important, before you do anything you must try and determine if your proposed career change will bring about the desired results.

2: Before taking any concrete action i.e. writing and circulating your resume, networking for leads and contacts, or preparing to meet with or confront your employer about your future, you need to gather your facts, put them down in writing and prepare a winning verbal presentation.

Start by identifying your successes and accomplishments and the positive contribution you have made over the past 12 months or since your last review. Then project and articulate your potential as an employee and what it is you can contribute short and long term to your present employer in the months and years ahead. You can do the same thing, but for a new employer, if you determine a change in scenery is in your best interest.

Once you have uncovered all the facts and you’ve written them on paper or on your desktop, you then begin to develop and perfect your pitch and practice it until it flows out of your mouth smoothly and with conviction.  

If you want to make a career change I suggest you discover whether you’ll need to start over from the bottom, how long it will take you to reach your desired goal, and determine without a doubt if you’re willing to make this commitment. You’ll also need to know what additional or new skills, education, or credentials will be required to make the transition and how you will acquire them if they are non-existent at present.

3: There is no “perfect” time to ask for a raise, transfer or promotion, look for a new job, or change careers. Still timing is everything and in most cases there is a more fortuitous time to take action. Your job, and it is not an easy one, is to determine the optimal time, line up the proper allies, and find the best person in your company to make your sales pitch to. I would love to offer more specifics here but when it comes to this topic advice is very personal, so rather than confuse or mislead you I will leave it as is.  You may reach out to me if you want specifics about your personal situation.

As always I am available to critique U.S. resumes and offer suggestions on how to improve them at no cost. You can send me an email with your current resume to perry@perrynewman.com

Some People Are Effective Résumé Writers / Others Are Not - Here Are the Top Five Reasons Why!

In my former life as a recruiter, search firm owner and HR Manager, and for the past 6+ years in my own Career Services practice I’ve critiqued hundreds of people's resumes for free and subsequently been hired by many of them to write, rewrite, update or edit their resumes for them. This has given me a unique opportunity to read and evaluate countless résumés that were self-written or written by a friend, relative or co-worker and compare them to résumés written by highly skilled, semi-skilled and novice professional résumé writers.   

 

What I would like to share with you is what I see as similarities among the men and woman who are capable of writing a résumé and the individuals who cannot. The same pattern also holds true for being capable of writing an effective LinkedIn page for today’s job market and the new breed of recruiters, résumé screeners and hiring authorities who are increasingly using social media to source and hire talent.

 

 Top Qualities people who can write an effective résumé share in common

 

A: They have dealt with résumés - screening, reviewing or writing them - as a part of their current or previous job or they have written detailed job descriptions to attract talent in their field. This experience has given them exposure to know what facts and information is absolutely required, pertinent and useful in a résumé and what wastes valuable space. This experience also taught them what statements make a candidate appear qualified and what makes them appear overqualified or under qualified for the job they want to be considered for.

 

B: They know how to mentally approach writing their resume from the interviewer’s point of view as opposed to writing the document from the candidate’s perspective. This allows them to construct an ideal candidate profile for a set of similar positions and identify where and how they match the ‘hire’ profile.  

 

C: They have a sixth sense in terms of style and format that helps them establish a personal brand that stands out in a crowd. 

 

D: They know the difference between duties & responsibilities and accomplishments & achievements and how to qualify, quantify and articulate achievements and value in clear, concise statements and bullet points.

 

E: They know how to gather and organize their thoughts, have good command of the English language and of the technical terms and jargon in their field, and they are articulate and proficient in grammar and spelling.

 

Top qualities people who struggle to write an effective résumé have in common

1: They do not work with résumés as a part of their job therefore they may lack perspective on what the person screening and/or evaluating the résumé is looking for, plus they do not have the advantage of seeing different résumé styles, formats and presentations to know what is most appealing to decision makers in their field.

 

2: They last wrote or updated their resume before 2008 and therefore most are not aware of the major changes in résumé writing techniques and how to incorporate social media in the writing and presentation process. 

 

3: They ask the right questions about how to improve their résumé but are unable to apply the answers without someone showing them a concrete example on paper.

 

4: They are oversaturated with sources of information and ask the wrong people for advice, so in the end they do not know the difference between professional, generic and amateur advice and criticism and how to apply it.  

 

5: They are unorganized and clueless about how to identify and articulate their value and achievements. The end result is that most of what they write applies equally to themselves and to their competition.

 

As always, I’m available to critique U.S. resumes and offer suggestions to you at no cost. You can send me an email with your current resume to perry@perrynewman.com

Ten tips to improve verbal communication in a job search

Every situation you are in during a job search requires verbal communication so here are some pointers to improve your ability to communicate with others when networking, at a job fair, in a job interview etc.

1) When preparing an “elevator speech” and responses to questions you anticipate being asked during an interview carefully contemplate what you want to say and how you will say it and then consider if it is useful or useless information. Then go over it again to make sure the response is as succinct as possible in getting your point across.

 

2) Make an effort to know as much as possible about the background, feelings, and knowledge base of the people you speak to because the responses you get are greatly influenced by these factors.

 

3) During an interview, or when questioned by someone you want to network, avoid speaking in generalizations and speak directly to the question, topic or idea at hand. This will earn you more respect than trying to be evasive.  

 

4) Be genuine. People want to know your opinions so make sure they understand what you have to say [without overkill] before yielding the floor or moving on to a new question or topic.

 

5) Speak clearly, pleasantly, and with confidence, and throw in a smile or two every so often to make the listener feel he or she is a part of the conversation.

 

6) If you’re a natural with humor don’t be afraid to use it. People are comfortable with someone who can make them chuckle. Tactful humor in the right situation is Ok. 

 

7) Listening is the key element of communication. You can’t respond appropriately if you fail to hear what the other person has to say; especially when it comes to reading the tone, nuances and body language between the lines. When someone else is speaking listen closely with the intention of grasping what they have to say without focusing your mind on formulating an immediate reply.

 

8) Show that you are interested in what’s being said by others. You can do this in two ways, by asking the right questions at the right time and by making regular eye contact.

 

9) Conversely pay attention to what you shouldn’t do. Don’t rush, interrupt, or finish the other person’s sentences, or come across as always in the right.

 

10) Watch your body language. Too much fidgeting, tapping your pen or fingers, eye rolling, or making exasperated faces show that you don’t care what someone is saying.

 

As always, I’m available to critique U.S. resumes and offer suggestions to you at no cost. You can send me an email with your current resume to perry@perrynewman.com

 

The Times They Are A-Changin

The Times They Are a-Changin is one of the most iconic songs of 20^th century Americana and Bob Dylan’s lyrics ring true today as much as they did 50 years ago, in 1963, when this album and title song was first released.

The duty of a good Career Service blogger is to always keep this in mind and make certain you do as well, because many jobseekers are stuck in the past when it comes to writing a résumé, networking for a job, and in the use of social media.

So here are some changes you should be aware of.

RESUMES

Not long ago résumés were historical fact sheets, and résumé writers and HR departments alleged they had a somewhat strictly defined convention about how to write them. However as Elaine Boylan, Senior Associate Director at Adelphi University’s Center for Career Development, recently commented on LinkedIn “Over time, my view of what works in terms of résumé formatting, font choices, text placement and effective content has become more flexible, as I more broadly define what variations are acceptable.” She hit the nail on the head. Résumés for certain positions, attorneys for instance, still follow age old conventions. Whereas the résumé for say a Director of Marketing can now morph in a new direction with the inclusion or color, pictures, graphs and statistics being acceptable to make a point and establish a unique brand. No longer should résumés be categorized as chronological, functional or combination. Rather they are now taking on new faces with creative use of formatting and content being widely accepted and even preferred by many decision makers today. Your job is to find out how far, at your level, you can push the envelope in your field. NETWORKING Gone are the days when people do the majority of their networking face to face at networking events, job fairs and other social events. This is still a good way to network for business but not so much for job seeking. The key to networking for a job today is not to focus on meeting a quantity of people at venues where everyone is there for the same purpose, rather it is best to focus on establishing and growing deep relationships with the right people and staying in touch with them rather than the relationship being one sided with a casual “hi how are you doing” once every few months or once a year. SOCIAL MEDIA The biggest change in job-hunting and one that is evolving daily is the importance of social media. Social media has now become a key component of both your résumé and your networking action plans, and is crucial for every job search. It is how you get found by people looking for specific talent, it is how you offer quasi-important extraneous information that does not belong directly in your résumé, it is how you show your work samples to decision makers who can be swayed by them, and it is how you can present quality references and recommendations that validate your worth. It is also how you find the people you want to know, communicate with them on an on going basis, and it is how you learn and grow by being exposed to important information and influencers who can help you plot and accelerate your job search for you. So no matter how young or old you are, or the stage you are in your career, as The Times Are a-Changin you should change along with them.

As always, I’m available to critique U.S. resumes and LinkedIn pages and offer suggestions to you at no cost. You can send me an email with your current resume to perry@perrynewman.com