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Senior Managing Editor

IT Resume Makeover: How to Tell Your Career Story

Feature
Aug 1, 20131 min

Not getting the responses you expected from your online resume? Learn what common pitfalls IT pros experience in their journey to find a better job.

Now she’s in a new position that she’s happy with, but several months ago when she began her job search she wasn’t getting the response she was hoping for. After putting her resume out there, she quickly realized her only interviews came from a network of professionals, which got her thinking, “What’s going on with my resume?”

“I had spent several months working on my old resume. I knew it was more focused on describing what I had done, but not on how that benefited the companies I worked for. I was really struggling with quantifying my accomplishments. Almost all of the interviews I had came through networkimg,” Franchi says.

After reading one of CIO.com’s Resume Makeover series, she decided to put her name in the hat and that landed her the starring role in this month’s makeover.

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Rich Hein is senior managing editor and writer for CIO.com. He has worked in technology publishing since 2000. Most recently, Rich was Digital Web/SEO Specialist for the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute, serving as the liaison between the organization's marketing and IT departments. Previously, he was a Managing Editor at Internet.com/Quinstreet, where he ran several sites (including Developer.com and CodeGuru.com) during his 12-year tenure there.

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