When it's time to update your resume, you may find it difficult to figure out how to effectively highlight your accomplishments while keeping the document concise. With the tech resume resources available here, you'll see how to rework your technical resume to make it stand out from the crowd.
Whether you’re just starting out in IT, are taking on a new technical, management or IT leadership role, or have your sights set on the C-Suite, the expert advice you’ll find here will help you take your IT resume to the next level.
In the before & after examples, our career experts show how to turn lists of technical skills and experience into stand-out resumes. You’ll learn how to tell a compelling career story, avoid common pitfalls and craft a better resume — one you’re proud to submit and that doesn’t leave hiring managers with lingering doubts or, worse yet, indifference.
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Resume Makeovers
IT Resume Makeover: Career growth begins with a strong summary
Pinpoint your most relevant skills and experience to build a strong resume summary that introduces you as a prime candidate with executive appeal.
IT Resume Makeover: Prove your path to CIO on page one
In this IT resume makeover, resume expert J.M. Auron helps one candidate inject personality, clarity and branding into a resume aimed at landing a CIO-level position.
IT Resume Makeover: Emphasize challenges, actions and results
In this IT Resume Makeover, JM Auron helps a VP of security engineering dig into his experience to craft a resume that properly outlines his abilities, initiative, and accomplishments.
IT Resume Makeover: How to write a detail-oriented CV
Creating a compelling resume isn’t easy, even when you’re at the C-level. That was the case with this month’s CV makeover, where one IT leader transformed his resume from jargon-filled to clear and concise.
IT Resume Makeover: Transitioning from IT pro to IT leader
Making the move from IT professional to IT leader takes a different set of skills. The same type of pivot is necessary with how you approach your resume.
IT Resume Makeover: Find focus by building a theme
The longer your career, the more difficult it can be to pull out the right details to create a focused resume. Finding a common theme that runs through your experience, can help guide the process.
IT Resume Makeover: Gaining a new perspective
After over a decade with the same company, jumping back into the job search process can be overwhelming. And sometimes the process requires writing your resume from an entirely new perspective.
IT Resume Makeover: Presenting an executive image
Looking to land your first tech executive role? Here’s how to overhaul your resume to catch a recruiter’s eye and demonstrate your qualifications.
IT Resume Makeover: Highlighting business and technology leadership
In CIO.com’s latest installment in the Resume Makeover series, career expert Laura Smith-Proulx, helps a CIO tackle his extensive — and impressive — background to build an engaging three-page resume.
IT Resume Makeover: Don’t downplay your success
It’s easy to fall into the trap of downplaying your skills and accomplishments. But on your resume you need to do the exact opposite.
IT Resume Makeover: Knowing what to showcase
Writing a resume is all about conveying your skills and experience in an easy-to-read format. But sometimes you need a fresh eye to help identify relevant skills and projects you might have overlooked in your career history.
IT resume makeover: Don’t try to please everyone
Writing a resume means knowing your audience. If you try to please everyone, you’ll only wind up with an unfocused and disjointed document filled with unconnected work experience and accomplishments.
IT Resume Makeover: How to show employers the real you
In this installment of our Resume Makeover series, Andrew Ysasi took a senior security system administrator’s resume and reworked it to show his qualifications for a career in security or cloud management.
IT resume makeover: Breaking through tech jargon
In this resume makeover, the candidate didn’t need a complete remodel. Instead, he needed to shift the overall focus. The resume writer Donald Burns was able to take his resume from tech-focused and dense, to something that any recruiter or hiring manager would actually read and understand.
IT Resume Makeover: How your older experience can get you hired
You’ve probably heard about the rules of resume writing and why you should throw out years of experience to keep your resume short. Take a note from this resume makeover and leverage even older work history to sell your professional brand and land a job in a new industry.
IT resume makeover: Avoid a list of job descriptions
When writing your resume, make sure you sell yourself, rather than present a long list of job responsibilities. Read how career expert Andrew Ysasi helped this month’s resume makeover candidate overcome the job description issue.
Resume Examples
IT leader resume example: Before | After
Senior technology executive resume example: Before | After
CIO resume example: Before | After
Executive marketing manager resume example: Before | After
IT executive resume example: Before | After
Senior IT executive resume example: Before | After
Systems administrator – Information security analyst – Cloud architect resume example: Before | After
COO resume example: Before | After
IT consultant resume example: Before | After
Senior director of marketing resume example: Before | After
Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity leader resume example: Before | After
Additional resume resources
- Top 11 resume tips
- How to add multimedia content to your resume
- 16 common resume mistakes
- Tips to get around applicant tracking systems
- 16 common resume mistakes
- Important soft skills to master
- Free online courses to grow your tech skills
CIO Career Coach Series
- 6 signs it’s time to leave your job
- Tips for putting together a great resume
- How to build your brand
- 6 tips for working with recruiters
- Acing the interview
- Acing the interview – Part 2
- Acing the Interview – Part 3
- 3 tips to negotiate the offer
- How to resign your executive position
