Chapter 18

Award-Winning Creative Marketing Resumes

Are you ready to cash in on all the possible bells and whistles to create your next winning resume? Then take the time to browse through this chapter, where I have included award-winning creative resumes from the Career Directors International competition, Toast of the Resume Industry Awards (TORIs).

The TORIs are the professional resume-writing industry’s best of the best, recognizing top resume writers from around the world in the single longest-running annual resume competition (2000 to the present).

Warning These examples represent individual people and their unique experiences; they are provided only as an example of what is possible in a resume. Please consider them as roadmaps, not rules, when creating your next resume.

Tip The resumes in this chapter are meant to be networking resumes. They will not survive ATS or other keyword resume scans. Be sure to always include a scannable copy of your resume along with a highly formatted one to ensure that you are covering your bases.

Illustration of the first page of a resume presenting the professional experiences of a chief financial officer, depicting a bold font with call-out boxes, front-loaded charts, and impressive metrics.
Illustration of the second page of the same resume presenting the professional experiences of the same chief financial officer, depicting a bold font with call-out boxes, front-loaded charts, and impressive metrics.

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