Compete Smarter: Strengthen Your Resume & LinkedIn Positioning
Your résumé and LinkedIn profile should do more than list your experience. They should communicate your value clearly, strategically, and at the right level for the roles you want next. In this package, we will review your résumé and LinkedIn profile through the lens of a former Fortune 500 HR leader and career strategist. I’ll help you identify where your materials may be underselling you, sounding too generic, missing key accomplishments, or failing to connect your experience to your target roles. This is not a full résumé rewrite. It is a strategic positioning review designed to help you understand what needs to change, why it matters, and how to make your résumé and LinkedIn profile more focused, credible, and competitive in today’s market. When helpful, I may also provide select AI prompts or guidance tools to help you continue refining your messaging while keeping your own voice, experience, and professional judgment at the center.
What's included
My coaching style is strategic, practical, and direct, with a supportive edge. I help clients slow down, get clear, and make smarter decisions about their next move. I do not believe in generic career advice or one-size-fits-all coaching. I start by understanding your goals, experience, current challenges, and what may be getting in the way. From there, we identify the real issue, whether it is positioning, confidence, communication, leadership presence, job search strategy, interview readiness, or navigating a difficult workplace transition. Clients can expect a mix of honest feedback, HR insider perspective, practical tools, and clear next steps. I often help clients translate their experience into stronger messaging, prepare for high-stakes conversations, strengthen their leadership presence, and use AI thoughtfully to support their career or leadership goals without losing their voice. My goal is for every client to leave our work together with more clarity, stronger confidence, and a practical strategy they can actually use.
- A strategic assessment of what is and is not working in their current résumé and LinkedIn profile
- Clear recommendations for strengthening their positioning, professional brand, and alignment with target roles
- Feedback on résumé structure, summary, experience bullets, accomplishments, keywords, and overall readability
- LinkedIn recommendations for the headline, About section, featured content, experience section, and visibility strategy
- Guidance on how to better translate responsibilities into accomplishments, leadership impact, and market value
- Suggestions for using AI thoughtfully to refine messaging without sounding generic or losing their voice
- Select follow-up prompts or tools, when appropriate, to help continue the refinement process after the session
- A prioritized action plan for what to update first so their materials feel clearer, stronger, and more competitive
Meet your expert
LeTonya S.
Navigate Career Transitions with a Former Fortune 500 HR Leader
I help experienced professionals and emerging leaders make smarter career moves, strengthen their leadership presence, and navigate layoffs, pivots, promotions, and senior-level job searches with clarity, confidence, and strategy. My perspective is different because I have sat on both sides of the table. For more than 25 years, I led HR, employee relations, labor relations, and talent work inside major organizations including Cognizant, Barclays, Merck, Honeywell, and Warner Music Group. I have supported hiring decisions, reorganizations, workforce reductions, leadership transitions, manager coaching, executive advisory work, and high-stakes employee situations. I know how companies think, how leaders are evaluated, how decisions get made, and why talented professionals often get overlooked or under-positioned. I have also personally experienced four layoffs. That combination is why I founded Exit to Excel. I help mid-career and senior professionals stop guessing their way through career decisions and start moving with a stronger strategy. My coaching blends HR insider perspective, leadership advisory experience, practical career strategy, and AI-powered tools to help clients clarify their value, strengthen their executive presence, prepare for interviews, navigate workplace challenges, lead with more confidence, and pursue roles that align with their experience and goals. My clients are often accomplished professionals, managers, and leaders who have strong experience but are struggling to communicate their value, position themselves for advancement, lead through change, or adjust to how work and hiring have changed. I help them move from scattered and reactive to focused, confident, and ready to play to win.
