THE “FAILURE TO THRIVE” RESUME: how to manage it.

Laurence J. Stybel,Ed.D., CMFSTYBEL PEABODY, a Lincolnshire Co.

Boston, MA

What’s on Your Screen

This Session is Confidential: first names only.

Confidential Exercise

• A hiring authority looks at your resume and then looks at you. She says nothing. Perhaps the silence is two seconds. It feels like two minutes. Do you wait it out or explain your resume?

Confidential Exercise #2

• You have three minutes to begin writing down an explanation for why your resume appears to support the idea that you have failed to thrive in your career.

FAILURE TO THRIVE GOALS

• Spotting a Failure to Thrive Resume• Role of Recruiters. • Review five resume distribution channels• If you get into the door, what to you say about

your Failure to Thrive…..

How Hard is it for a Recruiter to Identify a Failure to Thrive Resume?

And What Will Recruiters Do With That Resume?

LOOK AT OTHER DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS.

Comments?

STRETCH

IN MEETINGS, HERE IS WHAT NOT TO SAY

IN MEETINGS, HERE IS WHAT TO SAY.

EXAMPLE

Your Turn

COMPARE YOUR TWO STORIES

• What do you think will work better for you and why?

COMMENTS?

FOR MORE INFORMATION

• http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/platform-success/201111/got-great-resume-what-distribution-channels-are-you-using

• http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/platform-success/201404/managing-your-failure-thrive-resume

• lstybel@stybelpeabody.com