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Louise Kursmark
Resume Writer and Career Consultant, Best Impression Career Services, Inc.
www.yourbestimpression.com  
781-944-2471

Louise Kursmark, MRW, JCTC, CEIP, CCM One of the leading resume-writing experts in the United States, Louise is an authority on a wide range of career and employment issues. She has written 18 books about resume writing, interviewing, and job search and has been featured and quoted in countless online, print, and broadcast publications. Her passion is helping people “tell their story” in a way that is compelling, memorable, and relevant. As founder and president of Best Impression Career Services, Inc., Louise works directly with senior executives in career transition. She is also a founding board member of the Career Management Alliance, was the first person worldwide to earn the prestigious “Master Resume Writer” credential, and is a 6-time winner of "best resume" awards from two different professional associations.

Resume Writing - What's the first thing I should do before writing my resume?

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Host: What s the first thing I should do before creating my resume?

Louise Kursmark: The first thing you should probably do is not yet write your resume, because it is essential that you do a couple of things before getting started with the resume writing process. The first thing is to get focused to be really clear about who you are, the job that you want, the kinds of companies that you like to work for and other factors that are going to relate to your job. So, you need to think about that. Then, once you have determined your goal, what you want to be, you want to think about what employers are going to be looking for if they are looking for candidates for those jobs. What terms and words and skills are they going to be using when they go to look for that employee if they look at a resume. You need to do some research, you can do that pretty easily by looking at online job postings and other job listings to determine what words keep cropping up over and over again to describe the skills and the qualifications and the credentials and the knowledge and the experience that I will need to have to show that I am a great candidate for that position. So, do your research, hold together either skills list or the keyword list and determine that you have those skills and that's going to be the basics for what you want to present in writing your resume.

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