ResumeCoach

Be found with a Forward-Looking Resume^TM from Career Oyster.

I've sent my resume to over a hundred jobs with no reply

'I don't know what's wrong with my resume. Why isn't anyone calling me back.'

'I bet my resume just go lost in their ATS.'

'Should I rewrite my cover letter or try a different format?'

I sent my resume but got no feedback

'Why can't they tell me what I'm doing wrong.'

'I have great experience but am still not getting any interviews.'

'I've been automatically rejected for over 100 jobs.'

It's too time-consuming to customize my resume for every job

'Every job requires a different version of my resume, it will take forever.'

'I don't have the time to customize my resume for every different job.'

'How can I create a resume that will work for every job I apply for?'

I'm overqualified for the roles that I want now

'I'm ready to take a step back and take an individual contributor role after years in leadership. But I can't get any calls back because I'm overqualified.'

'I'm overqualified for these roles that I want. How am I supposed to win?'

What can I do to my resume so that I stand out?

'I feel like my resume gets lost in the sea of other applicants.'

'I have great experience but my resume is getting lost in a buried pile.'

'I don't understand why I'm not getting interviews with my resume.'

Change your life with a Forward-Looking Resume^TM

A paradigm shift from the prevailing advice and opinions.

Most resumes are chronological, backward-facing history of your career. But that doesn't position you as the ideal candidate for your next role.

ResumeCoach will not only get you the interview but help you get the job and career you want.

ResumeCoach System

Your resume has 8 unique purposes. Most people think the only purpose of the resume is to get through the system and get the job interview. But the resume has other purposes as well like selling you when you aren't there, helping to justify a higher salary, and guiding the interview.

The Forward-Looking Resume^TM

Most people agree that the job search process is a sales process. Yet no one acts like it's a sales process.

A Forward-Looking Resume^TM will:

Tell what you want to do and why you are qualified to do it.
Highlight your future potential and the contributions to you can make to your new employer.
Use your past accomplishments as examples of your successes.
Differentiate you as a candidate from the crowd with a resume that focused on your capabilities, experience, and aspirations, not just a chronological history of what you've done.
Support and control the flow of the interview.
Act as your Sales and Marketing document.

Personalized Coaching Sessions

Receive one-on-one coaching tailored to your unique career goals and background.

Identify your key strengths, achievements and potential.
Learn how to identify the keywords most important to include in your resume to get you to the interview.
Choose the right words that will show your accomplishments and expertise, not just the tasks you completed in prior roles.
Get personalized advice on how to highlight strengths and minimize weaknesses in your Forward-Looking Resume^TM.

Expertise Inventory and Marketability Assessment

Your resume is your sales and marketing document. Our coaches will work with you to:

Identify you expertise, skills, experiences, and capabilities.
Complete your marketability assessment to identify what your strengths are.
Create a resume that highlights the expertise that make you a strong candidate.
Create a resume, not for the jobs you've had in the past, but the job you deserve and desire now.

Comprehensive Resume Review

Your dedicated 1-1 coach will:

Conduct a thorough review of your existing resume.
Identify and create the type of resume will best support your current career goals based on where you are at in your career lifecycle.
Deliver you a resume that supports your current goals whether that's career transitions, lifestyle transitions, industry transitions.
Provide specific feedback and actionable recommendations for improvement.
Refine your resume content, structure, and formatting to ensure you get through the ATS and in front of the hiring manager.

Effective Messaging

Recruiters, HR and Hiring Managers don't read resumes. They scan resumes. At Career Oyster you will learn:

How your resume can sell your knowledge, your capabilities, your aspirations and/or your expertise.
What scanable keywords are most important to stand out to hiring managers.
How to highlight your strengths.
How to pre-empt liabilities or weaknesses.
How to use action verbs in the most effective way (it's not what most people tell you).
How to increase your vocabulary to higher levels of expertise.
How a complete resume sells you when you leave the building.

Customization for Job Applications

The Forward-Looking Resume^TM is modular in design and can be tailored for specific job applications with our expert guidance.

Use our unique Expertise Forward-Looking Resume^TM to match your skills and expertise with several job descriptions.
Quickly customize your resume to align with job descriptions.
With our modular resume easily align your experiences and strengths with our configurable expertise-based resume.
Ensure your resume can optimize your chances as your sales & marketing document for all 8 steps in the job search process.

"I wish I had this Forward-Looking Resume^TM 20 years ago!"

-Rob W

Why wait?

Don't lose another day by applying for jobs endlessly with no callbacks. Be proactive. Sign up today to get your Forward-Looking Resume^TM and uplevel the trajectory of your career!