Skill Based Resume Sample

This is an ideal resume for folks looking to advance within their profession, and job hunters should use this resume to highlight their professional skills.

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WRITING EXPERIENCE 
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Author of Amazon #1 bestseller Advance Your Image: Putting Your Best Foot Forward Never Goes Out of Style (O’More Publishing); reached #1 in Fashion and Image category and #14 in Interviewing category; currently used as a text for the O’More College of Design’s Image Conservatory; eBook edition (self-published) 2009, 1st edition paperback (self-published) 2010, 2nd edition paperback (O’More Publishing) 2011 
-Manager of paNASH Style blog covering topics on image and fashion for recording artists and the general public, September 2008-present 
-Professional bio writer for recording artists’ press/media kits, web sites, and promotional materials, November 2007-present 
-Guest columnist for Nashville Music News, August 2011-present 
-Contributor to Is She Naturally Thin, or Disciplined? Insider Secrets of the Sexy and Slim!, by Sally Shields, 2011 
-Guest columnist for Play Music City, Summer 2010 
-Guest columnist for Today’s Country Magazine (article co-written with super group Alabama’s Teddy Gentry), October 2008 
-Contributor to Vanderbilt University parent newsletter, November 2006-August 2008 
-Designer and editor of 35-page spread for Southern Association for College Student Affairs (SACSA) souvenir conference program book, 2005-2006 
-Creator and editor of UNCP Career Services Center online newsletter featured in National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) online career newsletter showcase, 2003-2006 
-Contributing columnist for Up & Coming Weekly Magazine’s employment/business column, December 1999-August 2002 
-Author of Methodist University Career Planning Guidebook, 2001 
-Guest columnist for The Fayetteville Observer’s “You’re Hired!” column, February-April 2000 
-Editor of college textbook chapter on academic and career success, 1999 
-Co-author of article published in national academic journal The Journal of College Orientation and Transitions, Fall 1997 
-Consistently meet writing deadlines ahead of schedule 

WORK HISTORY 
-Image Consultant/Owner,
paNASH Style, Nashville, TN, November 2007-present 
-Contract Position, Wind-up Records Nashville, Nashville, TN, August 2008-November 2008 
-Assistant Director, Vanderbilt University Career Center, Nashville, TN, November 2006-August 2008 
-Assistant Director, UNC Pembroke Career Services Center, Pembroke, NC, May 2002-November 2006 
-Director, Methodist University Office of Career Services, Fayetteville, NC, July 1999-April 2002 
-Assistant Director, Methodist University Academic Services Center, Fayetteville, NC, August 1998-July 1999 

EDUCATION 
Master of Education in Student Personnel Services,
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, May 1998; Recipient, The 1997-1998 Carol Edens-Epps Outstanding Graduate Student Award 
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology; Minor in Sociology, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, May 1996