BrightSide Resumes

BrightSide Resumes Transformative resume writing and career counseling led by award-winning storytelling expert, class individual, and die-hard optimist, Cliff Flamer.

Your story is waiting to be discovered. It's honest and inspiring. It will stop employers in their tracks, pull them out of their routine, and make them hopeful. Your story is complete, just unnoticed. You have all the pieces. You may have been knocked down a rung or two by your job search. It happens to all of us. The lack of response is hard. It gets personal real quick. You can lose yourself in

that silence. And lose sight of your story – or worse, get attached to a story that's not working. When you lose your story, you lose your audience. Employers need you, and they need you to be great. They need to understand your story in its entirety, and listen in relief as you tell it. You have so much to offer. Let's bring this out into the open and get the world to listen.

Like many people, I compete with robots now.However innovative I become, whatever tricks I pull out of my bag, AI is alw...
04/21/2026

Like many people, I compete with robots now.

However innovative I become, whatever tricks I pull out of my bag, AI is always right there, breathing down my neck, waiting to eat my lunch.

I’m well aware that the minute people find a bit of code that generates a resume that gets them a job, I’ll be out of mine. The robot’s resume don’t even need to be as good as a human’s; it just need to be good enough to get a job.

As a long-time professional resume writer, it breaks my heart a little to say this: that people would choose a mediocre resume over an extraordinary one, as long as it gets them a job. When it comes to looking for work, being special isn’t nearly as coveted as being seen.

But AI doesn’t care about my woes, nor do job-seekers for that matter, so I’ll get on with it.

Why am I no longer worried about my livelihood?

Because my clients tell me not to be.

Just yesterday, a client came back after 5 years. He came to me with a well-written, nicely formatted 2-page resume.

Learn resume writing tips, LinkedIn tips, career advice, interview tips, interview strategies, networking ideas, and job-search best practices to develop a compelling presentation and win the job of your dreams. Read our career blog and watch some career videos to boost your career confidence.

Everyone hates writing their resume.That's why we came up with Resume Therapy.In grad school, while I was getting my MS ...
01/17/2026

Everyone hates writing their resume.

That's why we came up with Resume Therapy.

In grad school, while I was getting my MS in Counseling, I paired up with like-minded SFSU professor and career counselor, Rebecca Toporek, who shared the belief that building a resume could (and should!) be a much more cathartic process than it actually is.

We invented a new type of coaching-infused resume-development model, which we eventually published in the Career Planning & Adult Development Journal (Vol 21, #4). It was Rebecca who, commenting on the therapeutic effects of using our method, came up with the monniker "Resume Therapy."

Ah. Resume Therapy:

A collaborative process that leaves job-seekers feeling more confident, self-aware, focused, happy, and driven, in addition to churning out an actionable deliverable -- that being a keyword-rich, accurate-as-hell, and authentically representative resume.

Everyone hates writing their resume. That's why we came up with Resume Therapy. In grad school, while I was getting my MS in Counseling, I paired up with

Everyone hates writing their resume.That's why we came up with Resume Therapy.In grad school, while I was getting my MS ...
01/17/2026

Everyone hates writing their resume.

That's why we came up with Resume Therapy.

In grad school, while I was getting my MS in Counseling, I paired up with like-minded SFSU professor and career counselor, Rebecca Toporek, who shared the belief that building a resume could (and should!) be a much more cathartic process than it actually is.

We invented a new type of coaching-infused resume-development model, which we eventually published in the Career Planning & Adult Development Journal (Vol 21, #4). It was Rebecca who, commenting on the therapeutic effects of using our method, came up with the monniker "Resume Therapy."

Ah. Resume Therapy:

A collaborative process that leaves job-seekers feeling more confident, self-aware, focused, happy, and driven, in addition to churning out an actionable deliverable -- that being a keyword-rich, accurate-as-hell, and authentically representative resume.

Learn resume writing tips, LinkedIn tips, career advice, interview tips, interview strategies, networking ideas, and job-search best practices to develop a compelling presentation and win the job of your dreams. Read our career blog and watch some career videos to boost your career confidence.

I founded my company on the notion that there is a BrightSide to everything.It's just how I am. But Jesus, where the hel...
11/04/2025

I founded my company on the notion that there is a BrightSide to everything.

It's just how I am. But Jesus, where the hell is the BrightSide in this job market?

Seems like everything great about work is being strangled to death and left on the ground to die.

So, how do I hold the torch of hope?

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This challenging to be a coach, a career coach right now.
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It's challenging to be anyone right now.
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It's challenging to be be anybody.
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But being a coach right now is tough.
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And being a career coach of an organization called Brightside.
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Is particularly tough.
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We're supposed to be holding the torch of hope.
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We're supposed to be carrying optimism, real optimism, not some BS.
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Everything's going to be great optimism.
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And sometimes that's hard.
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Um, I've, I've not really struggled with that before, but I struggle with it now.

Learn resume writing tips, LinkedIn tips, career advice, interview tips, interview strategies, networking ideas, and job-search best practices to develop a compelling presentation and win the job of your dreams. Read our career blog and watch some career videos to boost your career confidence.

Looking for work is an ego-destroyer.We start to question everything: our skills, our worth.It's normal. But it feels li...
08/07/2025

Looking for work is an ego-destroyer.

We start to question everything: our skills, our worth.

It's normal. But it feels like sh*t.

So, here are 3 things you can do to combat that awful feeling of loneliness when you're looking for work.

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I was just reminded again of how dreadful the job search is talking to a client, how lonely it can be.
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And there are lots of things that you can do to kind of combat that loneliness, but it can be overwhelming, like sort of like, where do I begin?
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So here are three things you can do, anyone can do, and a few might surprise you.
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So the first one, and this was brought to me, suggested by a client.
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And I was like, Oh my God, that's such a good idea.
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And this client actually found a job, found a job she really liked and a job where she's not overworked and she's happy.
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So success story, folks, we need some of those.

Learn resume writing tips, LinkedIn tips, career advice, interview tips, interview strategies, networking ideas, and job-search best practices to develop a compelling presentation and win the job of your dreams. Read our career blog and watch some career videos to boost your career confidence.

Yikes!Things are moving quickly with AI.Will humans keep their edge over the bots?Will bots be indistinguishable from hu...
07/31/2025

Yikes!

Things are moving quickly with AI.

Will humans keep their edge over the bots?

Will bots be indistinguishable from humans?

Or better than?

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Have you guys seen lately what AI is up to?
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What's happening with aI?
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Videos are insanely accurate.
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Incredible.
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Of course, images are beautiful.
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It's almost more real than real life.
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And the writing's getting better and better.

Learn resume writing tips, LinkedIn tips, career advice, interview tips, interview strategies, networking ideas, and job-search best practices to develop a compelling presentation and win the job of your dreams. Read our career blog and watch some career videos to boost your career confidence.

It's a word we've all been using.A supposed non-partisan way to express our disgust and fear for the way things are bein...
07/17/2025

It's a word we've all been using.

A supposed non-partisan way to express our disgust and fear for the way things are being run in politics, in tech, in business.

But I don't think it's uncertainty that irks us.

What's worse than uncertainty?
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Uncertainty.
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It seems to be a word we use a lot these days.
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Uncertain times.
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Future is uncertain.
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Everything's uncertain without certainty, blah blah blah.
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And I agree.

Learn resume writing tips, LinkedIn tips, career advice, interview tips, interview strategies, networking ideas, and job-search best practices to develop a compelling presentation and win the job of your dreams. Read our career blog and watch some career videos to boost your career confidence.

Looking for work is hard.00:05It's lonely.00:06It's often fruitless.00:08It takes up a lot of your time.00:10It can get ...
07/11/2025

Looking for work is hard.
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It's lonely.
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It's often fruitless.
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It takes up a lot of your time.
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It can get dark.
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And we all know this, and we all know somebody.
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We all know somebody who's going through this right now.
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And whether or not they share with you that they're in a world of suck, you can be assured that they are.
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And if.
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If I can go by what my clients say, it's that they don't want to burden people, right?

Learn resume writing tips, LinkedIn tips, career advice, interview tips, interview strategies, networking ideas, and job-search best practices to develop a compelling presentation and win the job of your dreams. Read our career blog and watch some career videos to boost your career confidence.

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San Francisco, CA
94105

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Wednesday 8am - 5pm

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