Author Archives: Rusty Rueff

About Rusty Rueff

Rusty Rueff, author of purposed worKING. Rusty Rueff is the former Chairman Emeritus of The GRAMMY Foundation in Los Angeles. He most recently completed the successful 16 month leadership role as Coordinating National Co-Chair for Technology for Obama (T4O) for the reelection of President Obama and ten-years of Board service and President of the Board of Trustees of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Corporately, most recently Rueff was the Chief Executive Officer at SNOCAP, Inc. until the acquisition of the company by imeem, Inc. in April 2008. Before joining SNOCAP in 2005, he was Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Electronic Arts (EA) from 1998 until 2005. He was also with the PepsiCo companies for more than ten years, with the Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies for two years, and in commercial radio as an on-air personality for six years. Rusty holds an M.S. in counseling and a B.A. in radio and television from Purdue University. In 2003 he was named a distinguished Purdue alumnus, and he and his wife, Patti, are the named benefactors of Purdue’s Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts. He is a corporate director of Glassdoor.com and runcoach. He is the co-founder and Executive Committee Member of T4A.org, serves on the Founding Circle of The Centrist Project and a founding Board Member of The GRAMMY Music Education Coalition. He is also the co-author of the book Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business. Rusty and his wife, Patti, reside in Hillsborough, CA and Charlestown, R.I.

day 3K369: Our Resume?

“…Your lives are a letter written in our hearts, and everyone can read it and recognize our good work among you.”

Call it a resume. Call it a profile. Call it a bio or call it a “CV” (mostly a term used in Europe, but there is a real difference versus a resume says About.com; “The primary differences between a resume and a curriculum vitae (CV) are the length, what is included and what each is used for. A resume is a one or two page summary of your skills, experience and education. While a resume is brief and concise – no more than a page or two, a CV is a longer (at least two page) and more detailed synopsis. A CV includes a summary of your educational and academic backgrounds as well as teaching and research experience, publications, presentations, awards, honors, affiliations and other details.”) Probably that is more than you wanted to know, but I reference all of the above because at some point we all write down something about ourselves and give it to others to obtain a job. Even if we are filling out an application with our work history, we are completing our resume (or maybe even our CV) for someone else to make a decision about whether or not we should be hired. So, they are important and we should all have some form of one handy and ready to go, just in case. How we write these tells much about us. What we choose to highlight, reference, or call-out about our experiences and learning can indicate our priorities. My best advice is to always seek out someone who is skilled at looking at and reviewing resumes and have them take a look at yours before you send it out. You will likely get feedback that can make it better.

The same can be said of the resume that we are writing today for ourselves. If we were to spend time at the end of the day listing our accomplishments and had to fill in a full resume from just one day’s experience, what would we say about ourselves? How would we describe our education or our extra activities that we accumulated in this one day? How would we complete our accomplishments and the measurements that go with it? How many different jobs did we do today and did we spend enough time on each one? Did we finish everything that we started? These are questions not only about our work, but about our life and how we show up for God on our job. If we had to submit today’s resume to God, would He take a look at it and give us more of His work to do or would He not see much that would give Him the confidence that we should be provided more? Fortunately, our God never withholds His grace and love. Think about today’s resume and see if it can’t be improved?

Reference: 2 Corinthian 3:2 (New Living Translation)