Milestone 4: Articulate Your Strengths with Impact

Milestone 4: Articulate Your Strengths with Impact

From your story to a complete résumé

In Milestone 4, you will bring together everything you have done so far in Skillforce Ready
– your employability story, transferable skills, and barrier/STAR stories – and turn it into
a complete, working résumé you can keep improving.

You will complete two online lessons before the in-person workshop:

  • Lesson A (online, self-paced): about 120 minutes
  • Lesson B  (online, self-paced): about 120 minutes
  • Lesson C- In-Person Workshop 

You will explore what a résumé is, look closely at a model résumé, and start
planning your own in a low-stress way. You will not finish every section yet. Instead, you
will collect key information and write your first Professional Summary using work you have
already done in earlier milestones.

In Lesson B, you move from planning to building. You will turn at least one of your STAR stories into clear, impact-focused bullet points, use those bullets to build an Experience entry, and then complete all main résumé sections. By the end of this lesson, you will have a full résumé draft that you can bring to the in-person workshop for feedback and polishing.

Course Content

Lesson A: See the Whole Picture – Planning Your Résumé
11 Lessons
Welcome to Milestone 4-Lesson A: Planning Your Résumé
What a Résumé Does (and does not do)
See the whole picture: Amira’s résumé
Video- Tips to Write a Better Resume
Micro-lesson: The 5 main sections of your résumé
Connect your stories to Résumé Sections
Résumé Map- Planning Worksheet
Professional Summary builder – Instructions
Professional Summary – First Draft (Assignment)
Lesson A wrap-up
Milestone 4: Lesson A Survey
10 Lessons
Welcome to Milestone 4 – Lesson B
Smart Keywords and Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)
Microlearning: From STAR Story to Experience Bullet
Practice: Choose the Stronger Bullet
Your Star Story→ Experience Bullets – Assignment
Experience Section Builder- Assignment
Skills, Education & Extras: Complete your Résumé
Complete your résumé draft and self-review
Discussion- Milestone 4 Lesson B
Lesson B wrap-up