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Leverage Your
Competency-Based
Résumé

The appearance and content of your résumé play an important part in
the interview process. Interviewers look for the core competencies to be
highlighted on your résumé as a gauge of your suitability for their po-
sitions. When you are able to call attention on your résumé to your
hands-on knowledge, you answer, at least in part, some of the inter-
viewer’s competency-based questions. To begin, the more competencies
you target on the résumé, the better your chances of being invited to
that interview. Then, during the interview, the interviewer will direct
her questions to the information you provided on the résumé. This
works to your advantage, because you get the opportunity to elaborate
on those competencies, describing the scenarios that provide the best
examples.

In this chapter, you will find tips to consider in preparing your résumé,
examples of accomplishment-based questions you are likely to be asked,
advice on writing a résumé introduction, and suggestions for preparing the
professional experience section of the résumé so it focuses on your com-
petencies. Also, you will find here sample résumés you can use as a guide
when developing your own résumé.

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