Writing your resume is more than just articulating your skills and accomplishments. Perhaps the most important part of the resume writing process is to define your positioning statement or “elevator pitch”. (An “elevator pitch” is what you would say to Bill Gates if he got on an elevator with you and you had 20 seconds to tell him why he should hire you before the elevator doors open at the lobby). And in the process of defining your positioning statement, you need to give some thought to your overall search strategy.

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