Earlier this year, I’ve shared stories of clients facing real job search challenges. Here are links to Blog 1 and Blog 2, where I discussed the writing strategy I used as a certified professional resume writer to help clients overcome:
- Trying to make an industry change.
- Telling the story of recent lackluster performance
- Overcoming age discrimination obstacles.
- Sharing a career story after holding the same role over the course of many years.
- Looking to pivot into a brand-new role.
In this blog, I’d like to tackle another I come across quite often in my role as a certified professional resume writer . . . looking to move to a company with a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CORPORATE CULTURE:
The Story
Brian had worked with the same company for 15 years and was a go-to for challenges and hot messes, ground-up builds, M&A growth plans and divisional turnarounds.
For his next move, he wanted to join a Private Equity (PE) firm or PE-backed organization in a CEO/COO capacity.
The Challenge
While recognized as a huge disruptor internally, his company wasn’t known for being innovative. In fact, the reverse was true.
He faced a stigma of sorts because the resume he was circulating only contained accomplishments from this same company — giving the impression that he was not open to change.
Strategies to Overcome
– Used the summary and “additional experience” sections of his resume to highlight earlier work showing growth achievements from 2 organizations known for innovation.
– Included a “Growth Snapshot” for each role within his current company to show he’d had big wins with several new challenges and succeeded.
– We addressed his sticking around the same company for 15 years in both his LinkedIn About section and his resume – by describing him as someone motivated by challenges that were “too good to pass up.”
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