The Career Portfolio Workbook

5

Creating Resumes That Work

with Your Portfolio

OVERVIEW

In this chapter we will show you how to create a P.E.A.K.S. resume that

not only sets you up to show key items from your portfolio during an in-

terview but also improves your chances of gettingthat interview in the

first place.

Specifically we will review:

What you should be able to achieve with your resume

How a P.E.A.K.S. resume format can help you achieve these goals

How to create a “master resume”that puts the right stuff at your fin-

gertips

How to target your resume for going after a particular job

If you are wondering whether you should put in the extra effort to

create a P.E.A.K.S. resume, here are some things to consider.

Special bonus: You can get more job interviews with a P.E.A.K.S. re-

sume.The fact that a P.E.A.K.S. resume format is unusually effective

for getting job interviews was a discovery that occurred during the de-

velopment and testing of our portfolio system.

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