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High Impact Resumes for the 21st Century
Jennifer Hay (CareerGuide_at_earthlink.net)
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Career Planning Overview
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Career Planning Todays Agenda
so what will you do with this information?
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Self Inventory Skills and Talents
Skills are learned through education and
experience. Talents are natural abilities that
are nurtured through experience.
Skills are repeatable when applied in similar
circumstances. Talents are readily applied in new
and different circumstances.
Skills are sustained through repetition. Talents
are refined through practice.
Skills are specific, defined, and easy to
itemize. Talents are abstract, conceptual, and
somewhat less tangible.
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Self Inventory Skills
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Self Inventory Skills
If your skills index is 75 or greater your career
plan is likely to focus on using the skills that
you have to create career opportunities that best
respond to your career change motivators.
If your skills index is in the range of 60 74
your career plan should achieve a balance between
acquiring new skills and use of existing skills.
If your skills index is in the range of 40 59
your career plan should focus primarily on the
steps to acquire new skills in your areas of
interest.
If your skills index is below 40, then BI may not
be the best career choice for you.
BI Skills Index
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Self Inventory Skills
Comparing index values across multiple areas of
interest may help to focus your career goals and
plan.
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Skills Inventory Three Dimensions of Skills

• WHAT CAN YOU DO IN BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE?
• Requirements Gathering ? Business Analytics
• BI Technology ? Data Mining
• Program Management ? etc.

• WHAT CAN YOU DO IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY?
• Data Modeling ? Report Development
• Application Development ? Technology
  Architecture
• ETL Development ? etc.

• WHAT CAN YOU DO IN BUSINESS?
• Business Case Development ? Design of Charts
  and Graphs
• Business Measurement ? Priority Conflict
  Resolution
• Business Requirements ? etc.

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Self Inventory BI Skills
WHAT CAN YOU DO IN BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE?
Requirements Gathering You can help business
users to break out of a traditional tabular
reporting mindset and envision new ways to get
and to work with information.
BI Technology You can work with the leading BI
tools including Business Objects, Cognos, and
Microsoft to develop and implement reports, OLAP,
business scorecards, and performance dashboards.
Data Mining You can apply statistical concepts
to create models for exploratory data mining.
Program Management You can balance development
and day-to-day resource needs to meet business
goals while ensuring both quality and value of BI.
Business Analytics You can apply business
analytics to develop reliable forecasts, to
identify cause-and-effect relationships in
problem areas, and to provide insights into the
business.
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Self Inventory IT Skills
WHAT CAN YOU DO IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY?
Data Modeling You can develop logical data
models in both relational and dimensional forms
that represent business requirements and provide
a basis for stable yet adaptable database design.
Application Development You can use many
different languages including Java, C, and
Smalltalk to rapidly build prototypes and to
rigorously build production-strength systems.
ETL Development You can map data warehouse
target data to source systems, design data
transformation logic, and implement ETL processes
using any of several ETL tools.
Report Development You can design informative,
easy-to-understand reports and develop them using
SQL, Crystal, and other reporting tools and
technology.
Technology Architecture You can identify
technical infrastructure requirements and define
architecture to meet them in a way that is
cost-effective, secure, adaptable, and
sustainable.
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Self Inventory Business Skills
WHAT CAN YOU DO IN BUSINESS?
Business Case Development You can document a
compelling business case for information
technology that encompasses resources, cost,
time, and value.
Business Measurement You can identify, define,
and describe performance measures that provide
real business informative, insightful, and
actionable.
Business Requirements Gathering You can
understand business concepts and language with
sufficient depth to really understand business
requirements and accurately translate them into
system requirements.
Design of Charts Graphs You can present
business measures visually with the ability to
choose the graphing techniques best suited to the
purposes of measurement and the people who will
use the charts and graphs.
Priority Conflict Resolution You can identify
root causes of conflict, apply reasoned and
objective methods to find the best alternatives,
and facilitate consensus resolution among all of
the stakeholders.
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Talents Inventory Many Kinds of Talents
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Self Inventory Many Kinds of Talents
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Self Inventory Talents
I have a natural ability to verb noun (in, of,
for, by, with, about, among, etc.) noun.
I have a natural ability to see the hidden
patterns in data.
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Professional Resume Effective Resumes
What do you like about this resume?
What dont you like about this resume?
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Professional Resume Audience Who Reads a Resume?

• What should HR see in a resume?
• Years of experience that you have
• Titles/Positions that you have held
• Industries where you have experience
• Your work history - employers and dates
• Education and other credentials

• What should interviewers see in a resume?
• The skills, talents, experience, etc. that best
  illustrate your most positive qualities
• The areas about which you most want to be
  interviewed

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Professional Resume Audience Who Reads a Resume?

• What should hiring managers see in a resume?
• Enough biographical sketch to give the reader a
  sense of who you are
• A reason to continue reading to the end of the
  resume
• An understanding of the kind of job or
  opportunity that you are seeking
• A list of your job-related capabilities (your
  skills)
• A list of the qualities that make you good at
  what you do (your talents)
• A list of areas in which you are qualified to
  work - industries, technologies, etc. (your
  knowledge)
• How you acquired your knowledge and skills
  (your experience)
• How you have applied your knowledge and skill
  (also your experience, and maybe some of your
  accomplishments)
• A brief chronology of your career (your work
  history)

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Professional Resume Resume Components
Brief Bio
Who am I? And who should read my resume?
Objective
What am I looking for?
Skills
What are my capabilities?
Talents
What is it that makes me good at what I do?
Knowledge
In what areas am I qualified to apply my skills
Experience
What have I done that developed my skills and
knowledge?
Career History
Where have I worked?
Credentials
How can I substantiate my qualifications?
Technologies
What tools and technologies can I use?
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Professional Resume A Resume Template
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Professional Resume Effective Resumes
What do you like about this resume?
What dont you like about this resume?
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Summary Next Steps

• Think of resume writing as an introspective
  opportunity
• Objectively assess your skills and interests
• Identify your most significant talents
• Think about how your talents complement your
  skills
• State career objectives that are clear and
  non-ambiguous
• Write an introduction that encompasses all of
  the above
• Draft a resume that answers the questions Who am
  I? What am I looking for? What are my
  abilities? What makes me really good?
• Sleep on it Re-read and edit in a day or two
• Keep it current Dont wait until youre job
  seeking

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To Learn More about Career Assessment

• To view a sample of the full career assessment
  and the corresponding resume after assessment,
  download from
• ftp//dwells_at_ftp.iqstorage.com
• user id DAMA-PS
• password Seattle
• To take the full assessment contact Jennifer
  Hay at careerguide_at_earthlink.net

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Jennifer Hay (CareerGuide_at_earthlink.net)
Thank You!