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Just as you've finished a resume, you find out you need more than one! For every job you apply for and for every person in your network that you send your resume to, you need a different resume.
It doesn't need to be wildly different. It does need to appeal to the person you're sending it to based on their needs. For example, let's say you're a marketing analyst. You've got to the point in your career where you'd really like to concentrate on the marketing aspects of your job, so you're applying for marketing focused roles.
You'd go through your career management document and pick out the responsibilities and accomplishments which best matched the marketing job description to create a targeted resume. You probably won't end up with a pure marketing resume, but it'll be more persuasive than if you hadn't made those changes.
Or, perhaps something dramatic changes and you need a new job fast, and you know that analyst roles are easier to get than marketing ones? You'd go find all those analyst duties and accomplishments and make the most of those on your resume.
We'll be back next week with more practical guidance. If you want to move more quickly, you can find all the follow-up emails here.
The Career Tools Team