Lots of people are applying for the same job. If you need a job you must be noticed by the recruiter, in a sea of resumes. That’s why you need a certified resume writer. Here are some tricks for a more professional resume for people who want to self educate about the basics. Include all your contact information so that employers can easily get in touch with you. Give your full name, street address, city, state, zip code, phone number, and email address. If you have a LinkedIn profile or professional website, include those links as well. Under some circumstances, you might want not want to include your entire mailing address, but it is generally good practice to do so.
Make your resume sleek. Some people think that the trick to a great resume is to stuff as many accomplishments as possible into it by using tiny font and stretching the margins to the limit. The result is a resume that is difficult to read and looks cluttered and clunky. Those resumes will wind up in the “no” pile because the person in charge doesn’t have a magnifying glass handy and doesn’t care enough to try to ferret out the pertinent information. Your resume should have a clean and contemporary look and feel. Use lots of white space by maximizing margins and being as concise as possible. Also, use fonts that are clean looking like Calibri or Arial.
Assume that your resume will be viewed on a computer screen rather than on a piece of paper. Most resumes are sent, received, and managed via PC. That does not mean that the document has to be drab and ugly, visually. In fact, the opposite is true. If you do not have to conform to traditional standards of print, you can step out with attention grabbing formatting such as use of color, text animation, images, etc. The use of pdf (protected document file) format is growing, allowing for more aggressive, creative formatting.
The job market is over-saturated and highly competitive. With 250+ candidates applying for the same job and 94% of recruiters sourcing candidates on LinkedIn, you must stand out and get noticed faster in the digital age. That’s why turning to a Certified Professional Resume Writer is the best decision for your career. It can mean the difference between getting an average job versus getting the job you want, and deserve! Qualified (highly certified) resume writers are trained to see things in a resume that laypersons do not see. See extra info at Professional resume writer.
Our US-based writers will generally use a combination of a questionnaire, email correspondence and a phone consultation to gather your work history and achievements as well as discuss your career goals. We will use whatever method you feel comfortable with. Some clients prefer to speak by phone while others may decide to work strictly via email due to differences in time zones or work schedules. We do ask, however, if you prefer to work by phone, to please send us a copy of your current resume or fill out our questionnaire with the basics, so we can spend more time on the phone discussing your accomplishments, rather than taking down employer names, titles and dates. Your writer will want to use this document to take notes on during your call.
How does your revision process work? Is there a time limit? We generally will go out to about three, sometimes four revisions. Most clients do not require revisions beyond v3. We try to wrap up and finalize all projects within a week, but we do understand that some clients have other obligations and cannot always get back to us with their revisions right away. Most projects are wrapped up in about two to three weeks at most. The most important thing is to remain in communication with us. As long as you are in regular communication with your writer, we will continue making tweaks, within a reasonable amount of time, as needed until you are satisfied. However, we cannot offer free revisions for clients who fail to respond to us after draft delivery and then decide to come back four months after receiving their documents to work on changes. If we hear nothing after a period of three weeks, we will assume you were satisfied and moved on with your job search and we will close out your file and send over finalized documents in Word, PDF and plain text formats.