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Issue: October 2, 2011 The Smarter Resume Present Yourself as a Work in Progress by Peter Weddle Faced with increasingly more-able competitors around the world, employers are now seeking workers who can make a difference on the job. They describe these individuals as A-level performers or with the more general term ‘talent,’ but what they really want is nothing more (or less) than smart workers. How can you prove you deserve that description? First, of course, you have to be at the state-of-the-art in your occupational field. Then, you have to promote that fact using a smart resume. Smart workers are always looking for ways to learn from their experience on the job. They see themselves as a ‘work in progress.’ To them, every assignment including the most mundane and ordinary and every challenge including the most demanding and frustrating is a means of developing their skills and knowledge. That added expertise isnt passive, however. Smart workers are learner-contributors. They seek new expertise in order to improve their performance at work. They want to know more in order to do more and do it better. Thats why employers are trying so hard to find and hire them. If you have any doubt about that, consider the findings of a recent survey by SHRM, the association that represents recruiters and HR professionals. It compiled two sets of data one from 2004, well before the last recession, and the other from 2008, right in the middle of the downturn. Here’s what the survey found: before the recession, 61 percent of employers were paying hiring bonuses to lure smart workers in the door. In 2008, in the heart of the deepest economic catastrophe since the Great Depression, that figure had increased to 70 percent. Similarly, in 2004, 27 percent of employers were paying retention bonuses to hang onto their smart workers, and in 2008, that number had grown to 38 percent of employers. Why are so many employers ponying up real money to hire and hang onto smart workers? Beca