Posts Tagged ‘Self Marketing’

Resumes: Don’t Focus Your Resume On Your Responsibilities

April 10th, 2012

By Phil Rosenberg

We were taught how to write a resume that focused on our responsibilities.

This is traditional job search 101.

This made sense for a long time, from WWII until 2007, when there were candidate and skills shortages. When there were skills shortage, it made sense to focus on your skills.

However, when a shortage of skills turned into a shortage of jobs in 2007, focusing your resume on your responsibilities stopped working.

Take out your own resume to compare – Here’s how to tell if your resume is focused on your responsibilities:

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Lead the Band – Self-Leadership – Part 1 of 2 (video)

January 2nd, 2012


First in a 2-part series featuring Rosa Payes, PHR presenting “Lead the Band – Self-Leadership”

Watch Part 2 of “Lead the Band”

Rosa is a Human Resources Professional with over eight years’ experience in the educational and government sectors. As a human resources professional, Rosa led the human resources functions of a growing primary and middle school. She brought to these tasks and responsibilities both strategic thinking and planning, and the day to day management of a hands on operational supervisor, in an 11 million dollar organization. Technically, she is on top of and ahead of the curve, in updating, automating and making effective the human resources systems. Rosa is truly a consummate professional, a true business partner with great people skills in excess and abundant human resources technical proficiency. She is affiliated with the Society for Human Resource Management Association, the Greater Merrimack Valley Human Resource Association, and the Project Management Institute. She is a Certified Human Resource Professional and holds a Bachelor of Science in Management of Human Resources from Bellevue University in NE.

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