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writing, from how your contact information is positioned to whereyou place the dates of your employment. Everything is dictated by theunderlying strategy.Now, let’s explore each of these Strategy Tools in detail.#1: START WITH A STRONG FOUNDATIONA resume is only as good as the information its author has to work with:namely, your professional experience, educational credentials, and other“stuff” – training and certifications, foreign language skills, internationalexperience, honors and awards, publications, public speaking,professional affiliations, community service and volunteerism … The listis lengthy.Step #1 in creating a great $100K resume is to collect all of yourinformation, then pick and choose experiences that line up with yourcurrent career objectives. We like to use the table analogy to explain thisconcept …Take everything about your career and lay it out on the table. Include allof your work experience. If you’re an “older” candidate, you might notuse all that information, but assembling it all is essential. For example,even if you decide not to list all the dates and details for jobs 20 yearsago, you might want to include notable achievements from those earlyyears because they communicate a very critical message: You’ve beena top performer your entire career. What a great consideration whenCHAPTER 2 : Strategy Tools for the Professional’s Resume24