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Resumes for Spa Managers

Feb 27 2022

Although spas were never considered essential services during the pandemic, people rushed back to their spa regimes in the first six months of 2021. While spas still have not returned to pre-pandemic levels, they did see a 26% growth during the summer of 2021, according to Yelp. Smaller, boutique spas have recovered better than larger spas.

For spa managers, therefore, the job market is softer than for many other careers. However, if you want to progress in your career as a spa manager, there are several steps you can take:

Get a college degree, preferably in hospitality, business administration, marketing, and/or finance. Many spa managers have learned their careers on the job, with perhaps an associates degree, but a 4-year degree will give your career a boost.
Hone your people management skills. If you lack opportunities on the job, then grab the chance to manage nonprofit volunteers or get certifications. For example, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) offers a People Manager Qualification training program for anyone who manages a team.
Practice your communication skills. As a spa manager, you must interact with staff, clients, and vendors; you may need to oversee or write marketing materials; and you may need to present reports to spa owners or stakeholders.

The many types of spas, from boutique to medical, offer different opportunities, and you should have a clear understanding of the type of spa that appeals to you and suits your personality. According to Zippa Careers, most spa managers in the United States are female (over 79%) but that still leaves opportunity for males. Most of them work for companies with over 500 employees. However, some spa managers are entrepreneurs, owning their own local spa. Spa management is also a international career; for someone good at languages, opportunities are available on every continent.

If you are ready to start or grow your career in spa management, contact Robin’s Resumes®. We provide resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and career marketing packages that make employers take notice.

Resumes for Audiologists

Aug 22 2021

Once you are qualified as an audiologist, you have many career opportunities: working solo, as part of a private practice, in a hospital or other institutional environment, and as a teacher. You might also become a forensic or animal audiologist or enter the area of research and development.

A Choice of Patients

Audiology is essential for treating hearing loss in an aging population and detecting hearing problems in children. According to the American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA), lack of awareness about the warning signs of communication disorders leads many young children to wait a year or longer before anyone recognizes their symptoms.

Communication difficulties and the inability to clearly hear speech cause problems for young adults moving from school to work. Audiologists, therefore, have a role in preparing young adults to navigate a world that is less tolerant of communication problems than it could be.

A Choice of Careers

You may decide to change your career path. You might consider social work, vocational education, helping manufacturers of hearing aids and other devices design and sell their products, and assisting companies with noisy environments to prevent and screen for hearing loss in employees. You might also join the public health effort to help frame policies related to hearing healthcare.

Resume Challenges

With all those options before you, your resume must be clear about the type of position you are looking for; make the most of your education, certification, and prior experience; and, if needed, show that you have transferrable skills that are valuable in an alternative career.

You must also present your experience using language that is appropriate for your audience. For example, other audiologists may have a stronger understanding of the science behind your achievements than, say, the hiring manager for a company selling hearing devices or needing someone to screen employees’ hearing.

Robin’s Resumes® regularly meets these challenges for clients in the medical, industrial, and technical fields and will be happy to help you with your resume.

Resumes for Former Airline Pilots

Feb 28 2021

With the airline industry in turmoil due to the pandemic, you may be rethinking your professional goals. You should consider these steps when embarking on your career transition:

Consider the alternatives in the air and on the ground. As possible alternative jobs around aviation, airline pilots might fly private jets and planes for corporations and high-net-worth individuals, join the Air Force reserves, or become flight or simulator instructors. You might direct operations for an aviation company, work for regulatory agencies, write standard operating procedures, or fill other corporate or regulatory agency roles.
Find a career coach. If jobs flying planes or related to planes are not available, or if they involve work on the ground, many airline pilots find the transition difficult. They consider flying more than a job; it is a way of life. If you feel that way, yet need to transition away from a pilot career, you may want to begin your job search by approaching Robin’s Resumes for career coaching. Then, when you are sure of your direction, we can start on your resume.
Understand your transferrable skills. As a pilot, you have many transferrable skills. You are used to working in a high-pressure, highly technical environment; able to maintain command but also keep the loyalty of your crew; and understand complicated government and industry regulations and rules. You are flexible about travel and generally in good health. If you have also picked up some language skills, understand customer service, and can mentor others, you have additional skills that are valuable to corporations outside the aviation industry.
Train for the job you want. Once you are clear about your direction, you may find there are gaps in your credentials. For example, maybe you may need to sharpen your presentation or customer service skills or improve your understanding of finance or specific software programs, such as the Microsoft suite. You might want to get certifications, take individual courses, or return to college, depending on your goal.

Robin’s Resumes® is prepared to help you from your first consideration of a new career through the entire process of writing or updating your resume. Robin Schlinger, the primary writer, holds a Single Engine Land Pilot Certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Contact us today to find out all that we offer.

It’s a Myth: Women Are Not Opting Out of Their Careers

Feb 07 2021

An article by an editor of Bloomberg Opinion cites the statistics about unemployment coming out of the pandemic. These statistics show that women have been harder hit in their careers than men, mostly because of the need to care for children while they home-school. Of the more than one million people who have left the workforce so far, 80% are women.

If you are a woman who has to fight a losing battle for flexible work hours, reliable help from your significant other, and alternatives for childcare—then you are not “opting out.” Circumstances have forced you out.

If you have a half-hour to spare anytime during the week, you can begin preparing for your return to work with these steps:

Update your resume, adding information from your last job, with a special emphasis on any numbers you can provide that show your contribution.
Maintain contact with your network, setting yourself a goal of at least one call a week to people you know at work or in the field; let them know your career is only on hold temporarily and find out what is happening right now in your industry.
Surf the net for companies you might be interested in and start compiling a list of contacts, openings, and needed skills so that you can target your resume and your search efficiently when the pandemic eases.
Consider what you need from a job aside from pay. Would you accept contract positions? Do you need flexible hours more than vacation time? Are you more eager to return to the office or work at home? List your priorities and what you loved or hated about your previous job.
Take an online course—many of them are free, either entirely or on a trial basis. The course may be out of your field, but it still shows your dedication to learning and growing.
Try for an isolation buddy with kids. You may be able to trade off some childcare to give yourself a solid hour to think and prepare.
Take time for yourself. Your mental and physical health are important. If you feel you are slipping into depression or anger, please contact one of the many online organizations that offer free counseling and kind support.

When you are ready to return to the workforce, Robin’s Resumes® is here to help. As a woman-owned and operated resume writing company, we know the obstacles women face in every workplace.

My Qualifications: Is This Job Worth Pursuing?

Jun 07 2020

If you do not have the qualifications for a job—the skills, education, background, and accomplishments that the job demands—the job is not worth pursuing. You will be rejected.

But how do you know if your qualifications fit the job?

Missing qualifications. Some job postings and advertisements list so many job requirements that no one human being could possibly provide them all. Or maybe the requirements are reasonable, but you cannot meet one or two of them. In either case, you should have the ability to acquire the skills you do not have. The job is only worth pursuing if you have a majority of the qualifications the job requires, including the first few they mention that you know really are essential, and your resume shows you are capable of achieving the rest.
Pending qualifications. You must provide the proper education and licenses for jobs in fields like nursing, law, financial advising, and engineering; certifications are more likely to be optional. However, it is all right to say that your degree, license, or certification is pending—as long as “pending” does not means months and not years from now. The job is worth pursuing if your resume confirms that you have earned or are actively earning the qualifications you need.
Out-of-date qualifications. If you are re-entering the workforce after an absence, your resume must show that your qualifications are current. If they are dated, consider volunteer, intern, or temporary jobs or education that will help to prove that you are keeping your qualifications current. When it comes to old positions on your resume, consider if you have outgrown those old skills or the industry has moved passed them, summarize past positions, and leave maximum room for your current skills and qualifications. The job is worth pursuing if your resume supports your current ability to do the work.
Changing qualifications. If you are shifting careers (for example, you are looking to transition into management), you must pull out from your past positions examples of the skills you will need in the new career. For example, highlight occasions when you showed leadership even when you were not the official team leader. The job is worth pursuing if you write your resume for the job you want, not the jobs you had in the past.
Technical and scientific qualifications. Assume that the recruiters and hiring managers who first read your resume will have less knowledge than you about the technical or scientific basis for your career. Concentrate on the results you have delivered using your knowledge, not on the technical or scientific how and why. Always define acronyms. Different organizations, even different divisions in the same organization, will use the same acronyms in different ways; you want to be clear, and you want any searches to pick up on both the acronym and the words behind it. The job is worth pursuing if your resume clearly explains your technical and scientific qualifications in terms of accomplishments.

Do you have concerns about your qualifications for the job you are pursuing? Robin’s Resumes® can help by writing a resume that deals in the best way possible with missing, pending, out-of-date, changing, or technical and scientific qualifications.