Resume Guide: How to
Look Good on Paper

By Founder Dr. Marcia F. Robinson

In today’s highly competitive workforce, it is imperative that you stand out from your peers and showcase your brand. You never get a second chance to make a first impression, so putting your best foot forward is of utmost importance.

The value of a great-looking résumé extends far beyond the finished product and into the actual job-search process itself. In identifying and refining pertinent skills, goals, and career objectives, we begin to learn more about who we are and what we want to do.

Author Marcia F. Robinson, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, uses her more than fifteen years of experience to shed light onto what employers are looking for when hiring. Her step-by-step instructions, best practices, and action items help to ensure that your résumé is presented in the way human resource professionals want to see it.

Robinson’s guide includes sixty FAQs that are crucial to consider when writing your résumé, valuable keywords, a powerful exercise to help identify your strengths and areas for professional development, and a master checklist.

Résumé Guide is an essential tool for the college student prepping for graduation, the recent alumni looking for his or her first job, or anyone writing their first résumé.

Dr. Marcia Robinson, MBA, SPHR, SHRM-CP is the CEO of The HBCU Career Center. She’s an award-winning HR and leadership expert who is on a mission to diversify and improve both organizations and BIPOC talent and communities. She does that by developing innovative and meaningful partnerships between HBCUs and corporations. Her past work includes establishing the Center for Career and Professional Development, Cheyney Internship Institute, Center for Work and Human Capital Development, and the Technology Application for Professional Success (TAPS) programs at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, and she’s currently a researcher on Workplace Automation through Artificial Intelligence technology. She has experience across Higher Education, Aviation, Hospitality, Technology, and Public sectors and has been recognized as Delaware Valley HR Person of the Year for her work.

Her goal is to continue working with students, alumni, new professionals, college career centers and employers to better engage and develop America’s diverse workforce.  These professionals, be they employees or business owners, will fulfill their dreams of lifelong sustainability through career and workplace success.

She believes successful graduates who sustain themselves, their families and their communities are the best ambassadors for the HBCU mission. They therefore, become the best protectors and advocates of the legacy of these great institutions.

Find Dr. Robinson featured in various career, entrepreneurship, human resources, workplace, employment trend publications, and speaking at national conferences. She is a member of the Forbes HR Council and has been featured as one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics (2021) and an Inclusive HR Influencer (2021).