Technical Resume Strategy

Challenge, Action, Results (CAR) Resume Examples: How to Use CAR to Improve Your IT Resume

Challenge, Action, Results (CAR) Resume Examples: How to Use CAR to Improve Your IT Resume

By J.M. Auron, Expert IT Resume Writer—Providing Professional IT Resume Writing Services for More than 15 Years.

CAR can help you analyze your career, uncover your unique value proposition, and create a resume that can win the interview.

What Have You Done Lately? Why Your IT Resume Needs to be an Inverted Pyramid

As a professional resume writer, there are some issues that I see over and over again in the initial client IT resumes that cross my desk.

One of the most common is to see every job described in an almost identical number of words, the same number of bullets, the same visual space on the page - whether that job is current, or was a decade and a half ago.

Does your CIO Resume Demonstrate that You're an Innovative Leader?

I recently read this excellent article, "CIOs Must Innovate Or Go Home" by Rob Preston. He argues compellingly against the "trendy pessimism" on macroeconomic levels in the media and general culture.

Rob also discusses the microeconomic challenges to innovation, and sees one primary issue

The Business of the CIO - is Business

Calvin Coolidge may be an odd character to appear in this technology resume blog. I doubt that the man dubbed "Silent Cal" would understand our word driven culture. Hard to see him having an active twitter account, eh? Let alone blogging.

We now live in a sea of words. Silent Cal may have said little. But his comment that "The business of America is business" resonated strongly with me as I was considering the rapidly evolving role of the CIO.