Career and Professional Development for Educators

This guide is broken down into many useful sections that you can refer to while building or updating your resume. Topics include: writing objectives, highlighting experience, and mistakes to avoid.

This book offers guidance on researching an employer and matching your experience to the position. There is an entire section on different types of resumes and dozens of examples including educator resumes.

Stand-out leadership candidates make the 7.4-second review count by aligning their resume to the most important responsibilities in the job description and highlighting accomplishments supported by measurables. Before submitting your resume to a search firm or uploading it to a website, you should first scan the organization's website to research senior leadership team members, board members and human resources personnel.

This article from the Harvard Business Review may be almost 20 years old, but the advice is still applicable. You want your resume to tell your story and not just list facts about your career.

The article informs that tailoring a resume for getting the post of school head. It is noted that review of submission materials is the first step for getting the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) fellowship for being school heads.

This short article offers practical advice for updating and improving your resume.

The article talks about the importance of the professional profile of a teacher as more than a job objective or a statement about his teaching credentials. Topics include the content of a profile including certification or licensure and specific and personal information, the value of a strong professional profile in revealing much about the candidate, and the need for teacher candidates to develop strong résumés that are customized to individual job advertisements.

This book includes resume examples, plus a diverse set of samples for all the top education and training jobs, including pre-K to high school teachers, special education teachers, librarians and media directors, coaches/physical education teachers, principals, superintendents, training professionals, education majors, and postsecondary instructors.

This short blog post from the National Education Association offers tips on cover letters and resumes.