Creating a Compelling Resume

A self-paced course to help you build a modern, targeted resume that clearly communicates your value, translates your experience, and reflects where you’re headed, not just where you’ve been.

Your resume is a marketing document. This course helps you build one. Does this sound like you?

● You haven’t updated your resume in years and you’re not sure where to start. ● You've updated it, and aren’t getting interviews. ● Turning job duties into accomplishments feels overwhelming. ● You’re not sure how to handle gaps, a career change, or a non-traditional background.

Who can benefit?

Mid-career professionals updating a resume for a modern job search, career pivoters moving to a new industry, and professionals returning after a caregiving break who need a resume that shows what they can do. This course helps you stop treating your resume as a record of the past and start using it as a tool for your future. You’ll identify your strongest skills and accomplishments, choose the right format for your story, and build a clean, targeted resume that makes hiring managers take notice.

Here's what you'll do in this course:

Write bullets that show impact, not just responsibilities

Most resumes list what you did. This course helps you articulate what you delivered. You'll identify your strongest accomplishments and translate them into language that gets a hiring manager's attention.

Choose the right format and build a targeted draft from the ground up

Resume format isn't one-size-fits-all, especially if you're returning to work or changing direction. You'll learn which structure works best for your background and walk away with a polished draft ready to tailor.

Use AI as a drafting tool without losing your voice

AI can help you generate language ideas and work through writer's block, but your story has to stay yours. You'll learn how to use it as a thinking partner, not a ghostwriter.

Curriculum

8 Chapters · 24 Lessons

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  Introduction
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  Course Workbook
3. (Included in full purchase)
  Resume Templates
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  Your Resume is Your Marketing Document
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  Understanding Resume Challenges
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  Challenges for Returning to Work & Career Changes
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  Exercises & Resources
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  Personal Inventory & Unique Strengths
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  Exercises & Resources
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  Why Accomplishments Matter & CAR Method
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  Exercises & Resources
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  Chronological vs. Functional Layout
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  Exercises & Resources
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  General Formatting & Contact Information
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  Profile Section
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  Key Skills
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  Experience Section
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  Volunteer Experience
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  Education & Certifications
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  Exercises & Resources
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  AI & Tailoring Your Resume
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  Exercises & Resources
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  Wrap-up & Next Steps
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  Post-Course Survey - Creating a Compelling Resume

VIDEO INSTRUCTION

40 minutes of modular video instruction with coaching-style guidance throughout. Each workbook exercise and resource is referenced in context during the video segments, so you’ll know exactly when it’s most useful.

WORKBOOK

Resume Workbook (exercises + structured templates)

TOOLKIT RESOURCES

• Action Verbs for Resumes • Job Duties vs. Accomplishments guide • Resume Editing & Formatting Tips • Tip Sheet: Using AI to Build or Revise Your Resume • 3 Resume Templates

Coach Led, Leanne Rodd

Chief Talent Officer, FlexProfessionals The Job Search Essentials Series is taught by Leanne Rodd, who leads recruiting, programming, and HR at FlexProfessionals. With 20+ years of experience – the last decade in staffing – she’s seen firsthand what helps professionals get hired and what holds them back. As a board-certified career coach, she shares practical, insider strategies that help professionals showcase their value and stand out in today’s job market.

You’ve done the work. Your resume should show it.

This course helps you stop treating your resume as a record of the past and start using it as a tool for your future. You’ll identify your strongest skills and accomplishments, choose the right format for your story, and build a clean, targeted resume that makes hiring managers take notice.

$59.00

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