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

ResumeCoach is a better way to get you the interview, the job and career you want!

ResumeCoach System

Did you know that 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. That is too simplistic. Actually, the resume has other purposes as well like selling you when you aren't there, helping your advocate sell you to the 'invisible' decision makers you haven't met, justifying a higher offer, 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.

Most resumes look alike with the same format from the 1980's! A Forward-Looking Resume^TM is a unique sales-oriented solution that will:

Present what you want to do and... why you are qualified to do it.
Highlight your future goals, potential and the contributions you can make to your new employer.
Presents your selective and relevant past accomplishments as examples of your successes and can also include your knowledge, capabilities, and aspirations.
Differentiate you as a candidate from the herd of look-alike resumes that focus only on past experience.
Guides and controls the flow (questions) of the interview.
Act as your Sales and Marketing document.

Begin with Personal Goals Coaching

Learn to identify your personal career goals. Complete a goals coach exercise with 1-1 coaching to help you define your personal and career goals at this stage in your life.

Define what do I want to do?
What am I qualified to do?
Who will hire me?
Will they pay me enough?
Define your proactive target market
Learn how to identify the 2 types of keywords most important to include in your resume to get you through the initial ATS and recruiter screening process
Elevate your vocabulary that will show your expertise, not just the tasks you completed in prior roles
Learn what employers really prioritize based on domain expertise
Consider alternative options and future trends identified by your coach

GoalsCoach - "Being with an end in mind." (Stephen Covey, Highly Effective People)

MarketabilityCoach

Create your Expertise Inventory and Marketability Database. These are the features and benefits of YOU as a product. This is the beginning of Proactive Career Management. You will complete the Marketability exercise with 1 on 1 coaching to help you identify your professional goals at this stage in your career.

Since your resume is your sales and marketing document, our coaches will work with you to:

Identify and organize you expertise, skills, experiences, and capabilities.
Complete your marketability assessment to identify what your strengths are.
Outline your strategy which selectively highlights the expertise that takes you forward to your next opportunity.
Create a proactive 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 the type of resume will best support your current career goals based on where you are at in your career lifecycle.
Guides you through a proven process that supports your current goals whether that's career transitions, lifestyle transitions, industry transitions.
Provide specific feedback and actionable recommendations to prioritize.
Refine your resume content, structure, and formatting to enable you to get through the ATS and in front of the hiring manager.
Review & polish.

Effective Messaging

Recruiters, HR and Hiring Managers don't read resumes. They scan resumes. In ResumeCoach 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!