Resume Before and After Example
This resume example shows both the original resume as well as the revised version.
Jump to discussion of solutions to resume problems.Before Resume
John Doe
2100 Logan Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 12345
213-123-4567
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Work Experience
(6/96 5/97) | ABC Video Sales Associate
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(9/91 3/96) | XYZ Cleaners, Inc. Owner
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(11/90 7/91) | Able, Inc. Manager, Marketing Communications
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(6/88 10/90) | A1 Company Manager, Marketing
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After Resume
John Doe
2100 Logan Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 12345
213-123-4567
Objective To obtain a marketing position which utilizes my marketing management experience as well my supervisory skills. Summary Experience with rolling out products, producing product training materials, conducting product training, developing and implementing marketing strategies. Excellent written and verbal communications skills. Proven record in project development and management. |
Experience Marketing Management
Marketing Communications
Sales Training
Management
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Before Resume
John Doe
Page 2
(11/80 5/88) | Assistant Manager, Advertising
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(8/76 10/80) | Supervisor, A1 Museum
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Related Experience
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(1976 1993) | Best Photography Owner
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Education
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. . | Travel Education Center – Buffalo, NY References available upon request |
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Before Resume
After Resume
John Doe
Page 2
Employment
Sales Associate | June 1996 – May 1997 |
Owner | September 1991 – March 1996 |
Marketing Communications Manager | November 1990 – July 1991 |
Marketing Manager | June 1988 – October 1990 |
Advertising Assistant Manager | November 1980 – May 1988 |
Advertising Supervisor | August 1976 – October 1980 |
Education
University of Nebraska – Lincoln, NE
American Film Institute – Hollywood, CA
Skills
Pagemaker and Microsoft Word
Experienced Photographer
After Resume
After a dialogue with the client, each of the problems noted on the Before Resume were addressed. See the After Resume for the final results of this effort.
Resume Solutions:
- A specific job objective was developed and added to the resume to give the resume focus. The type of job he wanted and why he was qualified for it was made clear to the reader of the resume.
- A summary section was developed and added to the resume to highlight his broad range of experience and to highlight his strongest work experience sooner.
- Instead of a chronological style resume, a functional style resume was developed and used. By making this change in resume style, the problems of the chronological style resume were eliminated. The resume no longer started off by highlighting his weaknesses of being currently unemployed and of his most recent employment not being his strongest work experience.
- Key information that he had left off his resume was discovered and added as the result of questions raised by his Quest Career Transition Consultant. This key information included numerous detailed duties relating to product roll outs as well as project management experience with project schedule and budget responsibility.
- The Related Experience section was deleted from the resume and key information from this section was included in a new section called Skills.
- The Education section was changed to reduce the number of institutions listed to reduce the reader’s focus on this section since the client does not have a college degree.
- The statement about references being available upon request was deleted as it is unnecessary.