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We take our craft seriously and strive to ensure that your resume and cover letter will produce interviews within 30 days of completion.
If you do not schedule one or more interviews within 30 days of receiving your new resume and cover letter, we will do the following:
- Reassess and improve your job search tactics and strategies
- Rewrite you resume and cover letter at no extra charge
We have not had to rewrite any of our clients’ resumes because we place tremendous emphasis on getting the project done right the first time. We also advise our clients on effective job search tactics and strategies. We believe our approach saves time and effort for all concerned.
Free Resume Critique
We offer free resume critiques to potential customers. We do this to ensure that there is a fit between your goals and our services. After you email us your resume, we will schedule a telephone evaluation during which we will advise you of your resume’s strengths and weaknesses.
The person who will evaluate your resume has has written well more than one thousand professional resumes, and, as an in-house recruiter and agency headhunter has evaluated hundreds of thousands of applicant resumes. He received dual professional resume writing certifications in 2002.
You will receive an honest resume review. If your resume needs only a few minor modifications, we’ll give you a few free tips and wish you well. If you need a complete rewrite, we’ll explain why.
Our resume critiques are based on recent and relevant real world experience.
To receive a receive a resume critique, send your resume to us at
resumecritique [[@]] professional-resume.net and let us know when best to reach you by telephone.
All of our discussions are handled with discretion and held in strict confidence.
About Us
Professional Resume Writing provides mid-level and senior professionals with effective resumes, cover letters and job tools they need to achieve their job search objectives.
We have served on both sides of the employment market, working as resume writers and job search advisers while helping a wide variety of employers hire qualified employees. Since 1999, we have recruited, counseled professionals across North America, Europe, and Australasia while helping them connect with desirable job opportunities. During our careers, each of our resume writers has reviewed well over 100,000 resumes and candidate profiles. We are intimately familiar with what works and what fails.
All of our resume writing is done in-house; we outsource nothing. We believe that sending work to unaccountable contract writers works counter to our clients’ interests.
If you would like to get hired faster, send us your resume then call us to get the process started.
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The Purpose of Your Resume
The Purpose of your resume
You should only build a resume for one purpose – to get an interview.
Keep this purpose in mind as you read the article below:
Why did I say ‘build’ a resume and not ‘write’ a resume?
A resume is not a story, it is not written with stream of consciousness like a novel. Resumes are built in a purposeful, strategic way to sell your strengths and eliminate your weaknesses. The best resumes turn your Tasks and Responsibilities into Accomplishments and Results
A resume should not be purely chronological – that is a big mistake. I don’t know anyone who has had a consistent rise in significant accomplishment over a long career. Most people, including you, have nuggets of brilliance – accomplished at many different times throughout your life.
Your resume should be a highlight reel not an autobiography. The strategy is to match significant keywords, (Knowledge Skills and Abilities), to your accomplishments. You can’t do this with a chronological resume,
The only purpose a chronology has in today’s job market is to help the reader understand when you moved from job to job and which job you had first, second, and third. The chronology doesn’t explain a thing about who you are and what you accomplished. Neither does your longevity. Some people accomplish more in six months than others do in five years.
Never confuse a job title with an accomplishment.
Resumes must be functional to attract attention. Many say it’s the first third of the page that sells – if you can’t grab the reader at the top, the list of facts at the bottom will never be read. That is why it is critical to sell your key accomplishments and KSA,s up front.
Use the following checklist to help you think outside the margins of your resume:
1. Prepare a profile that matches your background to the job description.
2. Prioritize your tasks and responsibilities to match the job description.
3. Only list tasks that are relevant to the job you are applying for.
4. Select tasks that you can back up – preferably with a strong accomplishment.
5. Use a qualifying line to describe how you were selected for the job.
Example:
ABC tech Firm – 2006-2007
Technical Writer
Hired by the V.P of Documentation to improve RFP efficiency and develop a document reuse policy.
This line adds a little zing because it gives the reader some insight into your story. Be prepared to add more details at an interview. This short descriptor can help you build interest in your story. First, you name drop a little. In other words, you tell the reader who hired you and the title they command.
Second, the reader/interviewer may want to know how you increased efficiency and how you developed that reuse policy. The strategy is to place ideas and questions in the readers head. Just make sure you have the answers.
Your resume must be constructed – ‘built’ in such a way that it structures the conversation before you get to the interview.
The Interview process is like dating. You wouldn’t sit down on a first date and say – “let me tell you what my worst qualities are”. Yet, people do this all the time on their resumes.
Now, let’s continue with the checklist:
6. List all tasks in the active voice. For example Developed, Initiated, Directed, Organized
7. Never say ‘responsible for’ just use the action word.
8. List your accomplishments before you build your resume. I guarantee that this is the most difficult part of the process.
9. Select the strongest accomplishment and place it after your keyword table- (more on this in my next article), and before your chronological list.
Wait a minute – I thought you said chronology doesn’t’ matter. I didn’t say that. What I meant was it is the least important part – but an essential price of admission.
10. Identify your Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSA’s), by using the Occupational ONET Online database. This is an excellent repository developed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and contains occupational information that can be an invaluable resource for education and research.
When you are ready, please visit http://www.ONETOnline.org
Now, lets continue.
11. Smooth out small gaps in employment by using annual dates i.e., (2006-2007) instead of the month and date.
12. List awards and citations/achievements only if they compliment the job you are seeking.
13. A note on Education. Include all completed degrees, regardless of subject matter. All employers value education. One caveat: Don’t include Certifications that do not apply to the industry in question.
Example: I am a professional writer and in addition to my B.S. and M.A. I am a certified professional Coder (CPC). This is a health care certification. The only time I include it on my resume is when I am approached about a writing opportunity that requires some understanding of health care issues.
Finally, remember that building a resume is one of the most difficult jobs you will do – if its done right. Its not easy to capture the essence of a persons talents and abilities in one or two pages, especially if you are a mid-career professional. There is no recipe. The checklist I provided is only a guide. Always practice good judgment and use what works for you.
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What Would You Do To Guarantee A Quick Job Search?
Today there are two job marketplaces. One is the old-fashioned traditional marketplace of resumes, classified ads, website postings, agencies and recruiters, interviews and rejection letters.
The other is the hot fast-track job search marketplace of career partners, contact banks, automated interviews, professional introductions, interactive dialogs, on-the-spot employment creation and savvy negotiations.
You see, the 21st Century job market has changed a lot. The old-fashioned ways of job hunting mean that you could be looking for a job for months. Besides, expectations of both employers and job-seekers have moved in decidedly new directions. For example, employers expect job-seekers to know and understand corporate goals. They want prospects to demonstrate how they can contribute.
On the other hand, job opportunities are being created on the spot and the candidate can be part of the creation process. Above-average deals are the products of above average negotiations where “dollars” is only one part of the total package.
Most importantly, if you want to excel, if you want a superior job with more money, if you want to select your next job rather than settle for it, you must understand and embrace the dynamics of today’s job marketplace.
We call this new dynamic as The 10 Power Principles of Your Job Search Success! Here they are:
1. Run your job search like an entrepreneurial business using basic marketing strategies.
2. Identify your specific strengths, capabilities and key transferable skills.
3. Develop a compelling communication and presentation plan to position you as a highly attractive job candidate.
4. Identify and recruit personal contacts and career partners.
5. Research and target organizations that match your interests and skills. Identify specific decision-makers to approach.
6. Utilize various methods to arrange non-interview meetings with targeted decision-makers.
7. Practice and perfect assertive face-to-face communication techniques.
8. Master powerful closing and negotiating techniques.
9. Follow through and follow up on each employer contact.
10. Repeat the process to acquire multiple job offers so you can select your next job rather than settle for it.
Put these principles to work for and you guarantee your next job . . . and you can do it in a matter of days!
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