Overview
Professional Development Plan – STEP 5: CV/RESUME and Implementation
Part 1: Elevator pitch
Define your personal brand. Choose a handful of qualities about yourself that you want to be most known for in your career. List 4 or 5 qualities about yourself (traits, skills, knowledge), and develop a clear value proposition about yourself. Write a statement that emphasizes your primary quality while including the other important qualities you have chosen (this will be your elevator statement or pitch).
Part 2: Your story
Create a narrative (story) about yourself that highlights these qualities, and your identity (e.g. https://www.roybaladi.com/aboutme). Identify critical content that supports your personal brand identity. The narrative about yourself should be no more than 3/4 of one page. It should address your past (focus on evidence of your qualities, examples of who you are, what did you learn and how did it change you), present (explain how what you are doing today works toward or relates to certain goals, what your passions are), and future (where do want to have impact, what do you want to be involved with). Write this in the form of a general cover letter.
Part 3: Your new/revised resume
Consider your current CV and/or RESUME (for a difference between the two see https://zety.com/blog/cv-vs-resume-difference) and using your values/interests/personal assessments, industry review, and career goals as guides, identify relevant skills and competencies that you possess or have developed through your academic experience, extracurricular activity, and work experience/internship (also courses/certifications, volunteer work). Revise your RESUME accordingly and highlight the new relevant skills and competencies identified.
Due: 1 document – 3 pages word or pdf
- PAGE 1: Elevator pitch (beginning of the page),
- PAGE 2: Your story (written as a general cover letter)
- PAGE 3: New/Revised resume (with skills and competencies highlighted) Y
YOU CAN USE THE RESUME I PROVIDED FOR PAGE 3