What Lights You Up?

3Write Your Story

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”

—Joseph Campbell

A Resume Tells; a Story Sells

Your resume tells the facts. How you describe your career journey and job history is the story that will get an interviewer excited about you. In addition to your resume, I believe that a good story is one of the most critical tools in landing your next job. A good resume outlines your qualifications to get you in the door, but it does not adequately help a potential employer to see your unique style and personality.

In Chapter 4 we’ll examine the nuts and bolts of your resume and a few tips for your job search toolbox, but for now let’s have some fun telling the story of who you are and why you do what you do!

In the previous chapters, you spent some time dreaming; now we start to create. Let’s craft the authentic and fascinating story of who you are and how you got to where you are today. If you tell me that your story is not fascinating, I will tell you that every person and every story is interesting and worth telling. So don’t get intimidated by what might seem like a boring story to you, because it’s yours, and to someone else, it could be fascinating.

Stories help others to understand the qualities that make you stand out from the rest, which might just put you over the finish line as the best candidate for the job. As a result, I always recommend to my clients that they work to develop a compelling story or personal narrative to share with a potential ...