Your resume is a record of your career accomplishments. It lists positions held, skills developed, and assignments completed.
Could your resume be used for another purpose?
How about using your resume as a career assessment?
When you hear the term assessment, you probably think about Myers-Briggs or DiSC or my favorite the CliftonStrengths (StrengthsFinder). These are tools designed to reveal insights about personality, talents, or inclination to succeed. A resume, or the tools used to create one, can do the same thing. The process of reviewing your work history can help you decide your career future.
A resume’s primary use is outward looking. You provide information to a potential employer, to show them what you have done.
Your resume used as an assessment, becomes inward looking. Think of it as a self-review. If you received your resume, what would you hire yourself to do? What do you still need to add to be a prime candidate for your dream job?
The maxim that a resume is a response to a particular job listing has been repeated often in the It’s Time to Put Your Resume to Work blog series. (If you have been reading my blog, thank you very much. If not, please consider following me on my past posts). For assessment purposes, you are going to look at your career as a whole.
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