What is a Targeted Resume?
A targeted resume is a focused version of your resume that is tailored to a specific job or role, crafted to highlight the qualifications most relevant to a particular position.
What’s Included?
Job Search Strategy
Figuring out what kinds of job are available and putting together a proactive job search strategy will reduce the stress and the time of a job search
Targeted Resume
A targeted resume is the best way to make it past the 5 - 7 second recruiter resume review, and become one of the 1 - 3% of applicants selected to interview.
Networking
Feeling intimidated? Networking is a skill that can be learned and practiced. Research indicates that up to 85% of jobs are filled through networking.
Recruiters search LinkedIn for candidates. You should be found for what you want to do next, not only what you’ve done in the past.
Interviewing
Learn how to prepare for the dreaded “tell me about yourself” and prepare for questions using the STAR method.
Negotiating An Offer
Compensation conversations are common at all phases of the interview process. Review strategies for getting the compensation your worth.
Whether you’re
you can, and will, find work that is fulfilling and meaningful.
Seeking to grow your career in a new organization?
Successful in your current role, but looking for new opportunities to continue to grow and learn?
As a career grower, job boards may be a great way to identify opportunities, but cold-applications may not be the best approach. Let's do some research, figure out the next step in your career, and create a plan of action to land your next best job.
Meet Richard
Where Richard Started
Very successful in his current role in brand management
Ready for his next adventure
Wanted to work for a mission-driven organization with a focus on people and planet as well as profit
7 Sessions With Sue
Created a target list of consumer packaged goods companies and B-Corps
Identified networking opportunities on LinkedIn, including those at Richard’s target companies, and best practices for reaching out to network
Practiced creating targeted resumes together until Richard was comfortable creating his own
Practiced writing cover letters together until Richard was comfortable creating his own
Practiced the STAR interview technique
Did a mock interview to perfect Richard’s interview style
Discussed Richard’s compensation requirements and how and when to share them in order to negotiate his best offer
Where Richard Landed
Offered a Senior Brand Manager position at a B-Corp
In less than a year, Richard was promoted to Marketing Director
Looking to leap into a new profession?
The first step is to recognize that the usual rules and job search tools won’t work for you, as job boards were designed with traditional applicants in mind.
As a career switcher, you have to go beyond the basics and create a job search plan specific to your career change, using tactics tailor-made to ensure your job search success.
Let’s figure out what type of work will make you happy and fulfilled, and create a plan to launch your next career.
Meet Jaimie
Where Jaimie Started
Early to mid-career professional with administrative, accounting and operations experience
Completed a certificate in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Strategy
Feeling impostor syndrome about changing careers
5 Sessions With Sue
Explored career options in ESG
Identified the type of jobs Jaimie was excited about that fit her career goals
Planned ways to gain the skills and knowledge Jaimie needed
Created a networking plan and timeline
Created a great resume targeted for the type of jobs Jaimie wants
Where Jaimie Landed
Getting started on her new networking and application plan
Feels much more confident and ready to put herself out there
Feeling stressed in your current role?
Whether you’ve recently been laid off or are feeling stuck, Sue will help you decide what’s next using career clarity exercises– and help you take actionable, informed steps to get you there.
It’s common for those feeling vulnerable to rush back into the job market due to financial pressures or straight up fear.
As someone who’s been in this situation, Sue can empathize with the challenges that the job market can bring and help you navigate your next steps successfully.
Meet Jackie
Where Jackie Started
Laid off from her banking job when the company was acquired (she had been there 26 years)
Feeling totally overwhelmed by finding a new job and didn’t know where to start
Gave herself a few weeks to come to terms with the trauma of being laid off
5 Sessions With Sue
Discussed the modern job search and resume tactics and techniques, including the role of AI, what recruiters look for on a resume, and whether cover letters are important
Identified all of Jackie’s hard and transferable skills and identified the types of roles that would suit her skills and financial needs
Reviewed job descriptions and identified upskill areas for Jackie to become a stronger candidate for the jobs she was interested in
Worked through Jackie’s fear of networking and found networking approaches that she was comfortable with
Created targeted resumes for Jackie’s applications until she was comfortable doing it on her own
Where Jackie Landed
After a few months of networking and waiting for the right opportunities to become available, Jackie found a position with another bank and was able to seamlessly continue her career
Are you a recent college grad looking to get your career on track?
So, you have a degree… but you’re not sure what potential employers are looking for when it comes to job experience or relevant skills?
Sue will help you leverage the experience you have and ask, yes, targeted questions to help you narrow down your career options into one that’s clear and direct.
Meet Hope
Where Hope Started
Accepted the first offer she received out of college and was stuck in a go nowhere job
Really wanted to be in Boston and work in digital marketing
Looking for better compensation and more career growth
3 Sessions With Sue
Reviewed corporate recruiting do’s and don’ts to help Hope understand how to get her resume past the recruiter and into the hands of the hiring manager
Updated Hope’s LinkedIn profile to better reflect the job she wanted, not the one she had
Using job descriptions Hope selected, practiced the process of creating a targeted resume
Where Hope Landed
Secured an awesome job as a Trade Marketing Specialist at a well-known consumer beverage company
50-Minute Session
$150
This is your search, and the timing and number of sessions is based on your needs.
Pick any or all of the topics below:
Job Search Strategy
Targeted Resume
Networking
LinkedIn
Interviewing
Negotiating An Offer
Great Value
“I have great news to deliver– I got a full-time job! It’s with a consulting company and I’m based out of their DC office. Considering the situation with hiring during COVID, it’s as great of a situation as I could have hoped to land!”
– Trey R.