Is hard when one has been working for a long, long time.

Help, please, from those of you who know me here on-line for all the years I have been posting on Mudcat and may have helpful comments to help me come up with a resume that will help me sell myself, something I am not good at. I understand I am inviting some trollish comments also, but I am reasonably good at ignoring trolls, and I really need some help with this resume stuff.

I'm very frustrated right now trying to follow the templates and instructions for "sexy and concise" resumes, each tailored to the particular job for which I am applying.

Some background. 61 years old. Tomorrow (as I realized just as I was typing right now) will mark the 40th anniversary of my entry into the very diverse field that is called Social Work. I've had two rather lengthy career tracks in social work, including both micro and macro practice. The first half of my career was in public welfare, the second half, was and continues to be, mental health. In the first track my career path moved from exclusively direct practice to exclusively macropractice. The second half, post MSW, when I moved into mental health, has always included direct practice, but for the past several years has included assorted permeations of managerial macropractice. I am focusing on the second half of my career, and especially on direct practice, though for some of the positions I will be considering, my experience as a supervisor or administrator are important also.

Currently I work for a rural community hospital as the director, psychotherapist, social worker, and half-time administrative support staff (I only have a part time administrative assistant) of a small outpatient psychiatric clinic. As is the case with many community hospitals, this hospital is on the ropes, has decided to focus on core inpatient and outpatient procedures that provide some profit and over the next 2-4 months will be closing most of the outpatient speciality practices it currently offers. My clinic is slated to close the end of September. I am fortunate to get a 4 month heads up. I hope I can stay to see it through to the end, and may find that is the case because I can't otherwise find another job, but also have to think about my own needs, (early retirement is not an option,) and need to assertively begin looking for work. For now, I will be applying for desirable jobs, given that I have 4 months. In 4-6 weeks, I'll start lowering my sights if something I really want to do at a decent salary hasn't turned up. In any event, I need a good, customizable resume. As I said earlier. I am lousy at self-promotion.

A four page resume won't get it, and from my on-line research and exploration of current trends in resumes, my current old fashioned resume won't get it either.

Looking for any input about resume building, perceived and possibly marketable attributes and how to word them, etc. Impressions you have of me that perhaps I don't perceive as being an attribute (and how that might be worded on a resume:>) Even some one (and I would pay for this) who has skills in either/or resume writing or with MSWord who could format and type a resume. In short, any help I can get.

I don't ask for much, eh?