340: Expert Interview: Out-of-the-Box Advice for Writing Your Resume, with Dr. Susan Bernstein

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Susan Bernstein delves into three key principles to make your resume stand out: 1) Start with a strategy; 2) Think of your resume as your own promotional story; and 3) Don't plan to use just your resume; plan to connect with real people. With tools like LinkedIn.com and online job hunting, many people have lost the art of conversation. They’re intimidated by the thought of meeting people face-to-face. Using her 20+ years of career and executive coaching, she gives practical tips for adding the human element back into the process.

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0:00.0	Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent to do what you love number 340. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison. Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has
0:21.7	discovered her talents to do work she loves, to create a life of success, satisfaction, and
0:26.9	freedom. Once a week, I interview a well-known expert from the fields of personal or business
0:32.1	development who share experiences, tools, and insights to help our listeners along their journeys.
0:38.5	Today, I'm delighted to bring you our featured expert, Dr. Susan Bernstein. Welcome, Susan. Hi, it's so great to
0:43.9	be back with you again, Don. Yes, I know. We love having you on the show. Well, today's topic is
0:49.1	out-of-the-box advice for writing your resume, and I'm excited to dive into that. But before I do, let me take
0:55.4	just a minute and tell our listeners more about you. For over 20 years, Dr. Susan Bernstein
1:01.3	has delivered career and executive coaching for smart, high-performing professionals seeking to boost
1:06.6	their career satisfaction. She guides her clients to create work that fits on their terms.
1:12.6	Susan's deep understanding of the workplace and career transformation comes from her pioneering
1:17.3	research, as well as her own radical career reinvention from management consulting to executive
1:23.0	coaching. A veteran of leadership roles at Franklin Covey, Intel, and Accenture. She earned an MBA at UC Berkeley's Hath School of Business and a PhD in Semantic Psychology
1:33.3	at Santa Barbara Graduate Institute.
1:35.3	Okay, Susan, let's dive into this intricate and fascinating topic.
1:39.3	Take the stage.
1:41.3	Well, I want to share three key principles about how to make your resume really
1:46.8	essentially stand out. You want to be out of the box. You want to be different. And I want to share
1:53.1	three ways to do that if that would be okay with you. Oh, it would be great. Super. So I'll share the
1:59.6	three principles and then let's dive into each of the three.
2:02.8	Okay.
2:03.3	So the first one is don't start with a blank page.
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