The Creative Process of Resume Writing Whether you are in the midst of changing careers, re-entering the workforce, or just recently graduated, the first step in your career search is to develop a resume. To do so, you must know where you've been, where you are now, and where you're going. Without this knowledge, the chances of reaching your goals are greatly reduced. Review your work history and remember the instances when you have solved problems in your daily work routine or ,if you were not contributing to your department, the problems that could have occurred. Jot these occasions down.
Successful sculptors begin by doing sketches, and great novelists prepare by taking notes.
As you begin writing your resume, brainstorm on scrap paper. This collection of notes is the raw material, like a block of stone, at which you chip away to reveal the masterpiece that has been hiding there all along. The more notes you have, the better. No one will see your notes. It is only the finished work of art that will emerge for public view.