"Failure to Thrive" resumes are marked by graduation from a reputable school, launching a career in a reputable company....and then something happens. And the person's career has never recovered. This talk is based on Stybel Peabody's column in PSYCHOLOGY TODAY and a webinar we provide clients. Topics include: 1. How to use recruiters in your job search. 2. Explain the Failure to Launch or hope it is not discussed? 3. If I explain, how do I explain? 4. What are my best options for relaunching my professional life?

1. THE “FAILURE TO THRIVE”
RESUME: how to manage it.
Laurence J. Stybel,Ed.D., CMF
STYBEL PEABODY, a Lincolnshire Co.
Boston, MA

2. What’s on Your Screen

3. This Session is Confidential: first
names only.

4. Confidential Exercise
• A hiring authority looks at your resume and
then looks at you. She says nothing. Perhaps
the silence is two seconds. It feels like two
minutes. Do you wait it out or explain your
resume?

5. Confidential Exercise #2
• You have three minutes to begin writing down
an explanation for why your resume appears
to support the idea that you have failed to
thrive in your career.

6. FAILURE TO THRIVE GOALS
• Spotting a Failure to Thrive Resume
• Role of Recruiters.
• Review five resume distribution channels
• If you get into the door, what to you say about
your Failure to Thrive…..

7. How Hard is it for a Recruiter to
Identify a Failure to Thrive Resume?

8. And What Will Recruiters Do With That
Resume?

9. LOOK AT OTHER DISTRIBUTION
CHANNELS.

14. Comments?

15. STRETCH

16. IN MEETINGS, HERE IS WHAT
NOT TO SAY

17. IN MEETINGS, HERE IS WHAT TO SAY.

18. EXAMPLE

19. Your Turn

20. COMPARE YOUR TWO STORIES
• What do you think will work better for you
and why?

21. COMMENTS?

22. FOR MORE INFORMATION
• http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/platfo
rm-success/201111/got-great-resume-what-
distribution-channels-are-you-using
• http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/platfo
rm-success/201404/managing-your-failure-
thrive-resume

23. • lstybel@stybelpeabody.com