Genevieve Boron ⋅ Mamaroneck, NY ⋅ 15 years experience

Dear Michael,
Thank you for your service! You have tremendous experience and it looks like you are including a great mix of transferable skills and quantitative & qualitative achievements on your LinkedIn profile. To your question about changing your LinkedIn profile as you apply to a new position, my response is no. While you are correct in changing your resume to best reflect the skills and qualifications in each job description; your LinkedIn profile will remain relatively stable, adding relevant information over time, and reducing details on work over 10 years old. Continue to ask for recommendations via LinkedIn. It seems that you could still condense your Summary as well.
Wishing you the best,
Genevieve

Lisa Carman ⋅ Littleton, CO Resumes by Lisa Carman ⋅ 20 years experience

Hello Michael, you are my first client to support in ACP AdvisorNet! Louis and Anthony are right on with their advice to you. To get a bit more detailed, the best way to show your value to an organization is to:
1. Clearly (and briefly) identify what skills, talents and traits set you apart from the competition. (Simple descriptive words like: Motivational Leader, Analytical Problem Solver, Results Focused....These belong in your resume profile at the top of the 1st page, and in your LinkedIn Summary as well.)
2. Clarify the results you bring to the table. When you include a few brief Accomplishment Statements that include the results of your contributions, that provides the resume reviewer with a solid idea of how you will behave in similar circumstances. Your results shed light on your potential value to a company. And, results can be quantitative ($'s saved, productive hours increased, etc...) or qualitative (what improved as a result of your involvement?).

I hope that helps as you are moving forward with your career! All my best to you!

Louis Schwarz ⋅ Somerville, NJ AIG ⋅ 43 years experience

Hi Mike, I agree with Tony regarding your work experience. The older experience does not need as much detail as the recent experience. Most managers are looking at the last 10 years as a window of performance. I am trying to relate your military experience to business requirements. It seems to me you did a lot of training and line support responsibilities. Evaluation and staff improvements are key areas in all professions and you seem to have that experience over many years and levels. Do you have any budget responsibilities? Another key skill in business. Your summaries are too long for me. Usually I like shorter, major achievements. In my experience, most resume are read quickly and if in the first few lines you do not capture the reader, they move on.
Your experience is good, now focus on your major accomplishments and your strengths. Consulting firms that have military contracts may be interested in you.
Let me know your progress.

Anthony Caracio ⋅ Chesterfield, MO Johnson & Johnson ⋅ 9 years experience

Hey Michael,

I believe that breaking it up into different positions may be the best way to capture your entire career. Although it may seem long, I believe having a position, describing the duties and how you performed will be very helpful for your resume. As a previous hiring manager, I liked to see the position, the description and then the results of each position quantifying your results.

I hope this helps.

Best Regards,
Tony

Michael Moffitt ⋅ Stillwater, OK U.S. Air Force, Captain ⋅ 22 years served

Okay everyone! I've significantly updated my resume/LinkedIn profile based on your suggestions...could you please take another look and let me know what you think?

Mike

Michael Moffitt ⋅ Stillwater, OK U.S. Air Force, Captain ⋅ 22 years served

Thanks everyone! Great advice. I've seen some say to put the job descriptions in a bullet format with the descriptive words like Lisa was talking about at the beginning of each bullet instead of paragraph description like I currently have...opinions?

Michael Moffitt ⋅ Stillwater, OK U.S. Air Force, Captain ⋅ 22 years served

Thanks Anthony. I think I probably need to do a better job at the "results of each position quantifying your results" piece. I describe what I have done but I think I'm a little lite on the impacts...I'll work on that! Thanks for the suggestions!

Mike