Shape changer

“I want them to see what I can do; not just want I have done.”

My client was describing her vision of what she wanted to convey to potential employers. She knew that she had an impressive resume of accomplishment in a male-dominated field. She had the ability to take scientific knowledge and theory and explain it in a way that made sense to consumers and marketers. She had the agility to shift when economics circumstances changed.

And she had the self-awareness to know when she was changing internally. She knew she had a certain restlessness, and a need to challenge herself anew. She was ahead of the green revolution, and went back to school to get additional training and certification to lead small businesses and larger industries towards smart environmental solutions.

She had a track record of accomplishment. But how to translate that history into a narrative that would show leaders in her new arena what she had to offer?

As you can glean, she is smart. And intuitive. She knew that as an experienced executive, most prospective employers would look at her resume and think of how they could plug her experience into their organizations.

But she knew she was more than her experience. She wanted to express the leader she knew she could be going forward.

That when we started to create a functional resume, a resume that could break down her specific job responsibilities and achievements. She had the insight; together we developed a format that connected the dots between her previous successes and her new learning and her innate creativity and passion.

I love clients like this. People and organizations who can be introspective and look out beyond the horizon at the same time. It’s the willingness to take risk, to reinvent.

Because she can clearly see herself, she can project how she will be seen.