A Critical Component of Your Self-Marketing Strategy: The Resume
The resume is an integral part of your personal marketing strategy, When was the last time you updated yours?
A good resume takes time, thought and effort to develop.
When completed, your resume should accomplish the following:
Define a clear focus and generate interest in your services.
Pinpoint skills, accomplishments, competencies and results.
Project your style and personality.
Set you apart from your competitors.
Compel your audience to want to find out more about you.

Before you can begin building your brand, a little soul searching and brainstorming is required. You need to be crystal clear on what you have to offer the mining industry and on what differentiates you from the competition.
Brand discovery is about figuring out what you want to do for the next 3-5 years, setting goals, writing down a mission, vision and personal brand statement (what you do and who you serve), as well as creating a development plan. Here are five questions to help you focus on your service offerings.

Understanding your own career development and the issues relevant to your stages of life will help you better decide how to change your career and what industries/ careers to target.
The following 7 steps will help guide you in the mining career change process.
STEP 1 – Indentify Your CIV’s
The first step in a career change is to understand your core competencies, interests and values (CIVs).