Seeking Inspiration

On Tuesday of this week I was invited to go to a session on resumes sponsored by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers at the Delta Airport West on Dixie Road in Mississauga, Ontario.  I was a bit skeptical at first fearing that it would be too focused on the needs of engineers and too little on what is needed by librarians.  What I saw there left me pleasantly surprised.

The speaker was Martin Buckland, a former police officer with Scotland Yard and the RCMP anti-terrorism units, who has spent the last 17 years as a “master resume writer” advising high-level executives, civil servants and professionals how to write resumes that get noticed by potential employers.  While some of the issues he touched on were things that I was already doing (such as writing this blog and creating a strong web presence on sites such as Linkedin) others were methods that I was not making use of.

One of these was the need to create a personal branding strategy.  We are all good at some particular area in our professional lives.  We should therefore market ourselves toward these strengths.  I have therefore taken his advice and substantially overhauled my resume to put forward a more straightforward message as to my strengths and experience.  You will be able to view this resume after February 21, 2009 by clicking here and selecting the file that you would like to see (CV or resume in PDF).
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Another issue that he brought up was that of networking.  I have had a great number of connections within the Kingston and London areas but since moving home I have not had many opportunities to connect with others in the library profession.  I will discuss one way that I am trying to get around this in the next post.

For anyone who is in a career, whether or not they are planning to switch jobs in the near future or not, they should consider some of the issues of branding and dynamic resume writing that Martin discusses on his website so that they are best able to sell themselves and their knowledge and experience to potential and future employers.