2-Hour Virtual Seminar on How Good Is Your Resume: The Ultimate Resume Test 2026
January 19, 2026
10:00 AM PST | 01:00 PM EST
2 Hours
712131
Group Attendees: Any number of participants
Recorded Version: Unlimited viewing for 6 months ( Access information will be emailed 24 hours after the completion of live webinar)
This webinar provides professionals at all career levels with a powerful, practical framework for evaluating the strength, clarity, and competitiveness of their resume in today’s rapidly evolving job market.
Participants will learn how to identify weaknesses, highlight achievements, optimize formatting, and tailor content to stand out to recruiters, applicant tracking systems (ATS), and hiring managers. Through hands-on examples, real-world comparisons, and proven resume strategies for 2025, attendees will leave equipped to transform their resume into a high-impact personal marketing tool that opens doors, accelerates career opportunities, and drives professional success.Why should you Attend:
- Evaluate the effectiveness of your resume using a structured, research-backed assessment framework
- Understand what recruiters and hiring managers look for in top-tier resumes in 2025
- Learn how to optimize your resume for Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) to increase visibility and interview opportunities
- Identify gaps, weaknesses, or outdated elements that may be hurting your chances
- Transform job duties into strong, results-driven accomplishment statements
- Tailor your resume for specific industries, roles, and levels of seniority
- Improve formatting, layout, and design for clarity, readability, and impact
- Create a modern, competitive resume that differentiates you in a crowded job market
Areas Covered in the Session:
- The Resume Landscape in 2025
- What has changed-and what still matters
- How AI, automation, and ATS reshape resume expectations
- The Ultimate Resume Test: A Step-by-Step Evaluation
- The 10-point resume effectiveness checklist
- How to measure your resume's clarity, value, and competitiveness
- Must-Have Resume Components
- Professional summary vs. objective statement
- Experience, accomplishments, skills, certifications, and education
- Writing High-Impact Accomplishments
- Turning duties into achievements
- Using metrics, outcomes, and storytelling to elevate your experience
- ATS Optimization Essentials
- Resume formatting do’s and don'ts for ATS
- Keyword strategy and alignment with job descriptions
- Formatting, Design & Modern Resume Styles
- Best practices for readability and visual appeal
- What to avoid: design mistakes that hurt your chances
- Tailoring Your Resume for 2025 Opportunities
- Industry-specific customization techniques
- How to adapt your resume for internal vs. external roles
- The Final Review Process
- The proofreading and quality-check checklist
- Peer review, professional feedback, and polishing
- Q&A and Action Plan
- Next steps for updating and upgrading your resume
- Tools, templates, and resources for continued improvement
Who Will Benefit:
- All
Chris DeVany is the founder and president of Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide, a firm which focuses on management and organization development. Pinnacle's clients include global organizations such as Visa International, Cadence Design Systems, Coca Cola, Sprint, Microsoft, Aviva Insurance, Schlumberger and over 500 other organizations in 22 countries. He also has consulted to government agencies from the United States, the Royal Government of Saudi Arabia, Canada, Cayman Islands and the United Kingdom.
He has published numerous articles in the fields of surviving mergers and acquisitions, surviving change, project management, management, sales, team-building, leadership, ethics, customer service, diversity and work-life balance, in publications ranging from ASTD/Performance In Practice to Customer Service Management. His book, "90 Days to a High-Performance Team", published by McGraw Hill and often accompanied by in-person, facilitated instruction, has helped and continues to help thousands of executives, managers and team leaders improve performance.
He has appeared hundreds of times on radio and television interview programs to discuss mergers and acquisitions (how to manage and survive them), project management, sales, customer service, effective workplace communication, management, handling rapid personal and organizational change and other topical business issues.
He has served or is currently serving as a board member of the International Association of Facilitators, Sales and Marketing Executives International, American Management Association, American Society of Training and Development, Institute of Management Consultants, American Society of Association Executives, Meeting Professionals International and National Speakers Association. Chris is an award-winning Toastmaster's International Competition speaker. He recently participated in the Fortune 500 Annual Management Forum as a speaker, panelist and seminar leader.
Chris has distinguished himself professionally by serving multiple corporations as manager and trainer of sales, operations, project management, IT, customer service and marketing professionals. Included among those business leaders are Prudential Insurance, Sprint, BayBank (now part of Bank of America), US Health Care and Marriott Corporation.
He has assisted these organizations in mergers and acquisitions, facilitating post-merger and acquisition integration, developing project management, sales, customer service and marketing strategies, organizing inbound and outbound call center programs, training and development of management and new hires, and fostering corporate growth through creative change and innovation initiatives.
Chris holds degrees in management studies and organizational behavior from Boston University. He has traveled to 22 countries and 47 states in the course of his career.
