The end of the year has a
built-in rhythm of taking stock and making plans for the coming year.
We scrutinize habits, evaluate goals, and explore intentions. As you are
thinking about your personal health, take some time also to foster your
professional health by dusting off your resume. The best time to update
your resume is before you need it! By making periodic changes and
updates your content stays more accurate and descriptions more vibrant.
Your 2017 resolutions should include professional resolutions. Allow
your goals for the future to be informed by your growth in the past.
Pull out your resume and evaluate these areas:
Current content.
Start at the most basic: is your phone number and email correct? It’s
best-practice to use a non-company email on your resume. Does your
resume reflect your current position and duties? Do you have additional
volunteer experience or skills to incorporate?
Additional accomplishments.
Have you received any promotions or recognitions since you last updated
your resume? Integrate recent achievements and awards into the existing
format. Conversely, it may be time to trim off items you listed
previously that are no longer relevant to your focus.
Dynamic descriptions.
Evaluate the job duties and skills listed. Taking time to periodically
update your resume allows you to describe tasks while they are fresh in
your mind. Say you implemented a new CMS. What planning was involved?
How did you approach the change? How did you communicate with staff?
What evaluation measures did you carry out once the project was
complete? Think through all aspects of a task and describe it using
active and positive language.
About Cheryl Hyatt and Hyatt-Fennell Executive Search
With over 20 years of
executive-search consulting experience, Cheryl Hyatt has been
responsible for successfully recruiting senior-administrative
professionals for educational and non-profit organizations. Before
partnering with Dr. Fennell, she was the President and owner of The
Charitable Resources Group and provided not only executive search
services but fundraising consulting expertise to the clients she served.
Cheryl brings over 30 years of management and organizational leadership
experience to her role with clients. Her breadth of experience,
knowledge, and contacts makes her sought after professionally in her
field. Ms. Hyatt has written articles and presented to various
non-profit groups. She sits on various local non-profit boards offering
a variety of expertise to each organization.
Hyatt-Fennell brings
over 60 years of combined highly successful executive search expertise
to its clients, a reputation for achieving results on the national and
international level, and the ability to place top executives with higher
educational institutions nationwide. The Executive Search firms of
Gallagher~Fennell Higher Education Services and The Charitable Resources
Group merged in 2010 to formalize their partnership and create
Hyatt-Fennell Executive Search.
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