How to Update Your Teacher Resume for More Opportunities:
The Show Notes
In this episode, I’m talking with Certified Professional Resume Writer, Angela Ashurst-McGee. Angela and her team of pros have been providing friendly, savvy resume support for over 15 years. She also specifically helps transform the teacher resumes of students in our course, From Teacher to Instructional Designer.
Angela will share some simple strategies you can use to help you secure more interviews. She also explains why your resume is not actually about you, and how you can use Linkedin to your advantage.
Your Teacher Resume is Not Actually About You
When preparing your teacher resume for new job opportunities, you have to understand that the document is not just a list of all your skills and experience. This is where you are going to match your experience to the specific role you are going for.
For example, do they use the word client or customer? Do they use the word instructional designer or curriculum designer? Even though they often mean the same thing, make sure every word matches the job description exactly.
To make their jobs easier, hiring managers run all applications through Applicant Tracking Software (ATS). Any resumes that have zero matches to specific keywords are trashed in this process. Make sure your resume is landing in the hands of a human by taking a closer look at the details provided in the job description!
Take your Teacher Resume to the Next Level
Let’s be honest, writing about yourself is hard! You want to be honest, but not boastful, and it can be difficult to be objective. If you’ve tried sending every possible version of your resume, but nothing’s working, you don’t have to stay stuck!
Angela and her team from RedRocketResume offer three levels of support to help optimize your teacher resume that you can access in our resources page.
1. Resume Assessment
A trained resume expert will review your resume and provide a to-do list of specific, concrete recommendations to improve your resume and align it with your current career goals.
2. Resume Refresh
A trained resume expert will polish and update your existing resume, giving it a fresh, ATS-compliant format and bringing it up to current resume best practices. 20-minute phone consultation with your writer. 1 round of revisions with your writer.
3. Resume Rewrite
Work one-on-one with a trained resume expert to generate the content and resume strategy to create a new resume aligned with your career goals. 30-minute phone consultation with your writer. Revisions with your writer until you’re 100% happy with it.
Why You Need to Update LinkedIn and Your Teacher Resume
If you’ve been busy in the classroom, chances are you haven’t updated or even created a LinkedIn profile. Angela shares that this is the perfect time to make some changes because almost all hiring managers take time to learn about you through this platform.
Updating your profile gives you a real advantage in the hiring process. It’s a place where you get to control the messaging and presentation. LinkedIn has truly become an essential piece of getting hired, so don’t overlook this opportunity to stand out!
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Connect with Angela
Angela Ashurst-McGee is a Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW) and the creator of RedRocketResume, a premium resume-writing service for professionals who want to keep their career moving onward and upward. In the last 15 years, Angela and her team have written resumes for everyone from blue-collar workers and new grads to Fortune 500 executives and entrepreneurs. She brings expertise in hiring processes, resume content, and LinkedIn strategy.
Angela is a firm believer that a good job isn’t just a good paycheck—it’s a key to our deeper dreams of creating value and making the world a better place.
