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What Is Full-Service Resume Writing? Part II

Aug 21 2016

As a full-service professional resume writer, my job is to make sure that your resume accurately, concisely, and clearly describes the value you bring to a company. A resume company that takes your old resume and merely updates or reformats it is not providing full-service resume writing.

I am often surprised by differences between a job seeker’s old resumes, answers to the questionnaires I send, and the job seeker’s sample of advertisements and postings for preferred jobs. Here are some less obvious ways my full-service resume writing helps everything line up correctly in a powerful resume:

By showing you the value of your contribution. During a company downsizing, a secretary had taken on the responsibilities of an administrative assistant who was let go. The secretary said that she had not been “officially promoted” to administrative assistant, and therefore she couldn’t use that job title. I only found out about her extra duties when I matched the current job description she supplied to the job duties she listed on the questionnaire I gave her. On her resume, I made it perfectly clear what a superb asset she was by describing her position as: Secretary with Administrative Assistant Responsibility. That is what full-service resume writing means: helping you brand and sell yourself to your next employer.
By clarifying the job posting or advertisement. An IT professional felt he could handle a CIT position at a major company but no one was responding to his current resume with requests for interviews. When I compared the sample job postings he sent me to his resume, I found very few of the qualifications matched up. He needed to take interim steps before he could apply for interviews: perhaps he should look for a CIT position at a smaller company or become the CIT’s next in command at a major company. He researched job postings for a direct report to the CIT and I re-wrote his resume to show off his value for those positions. Full-service resume writing also means that I give professional advice based on decades of experience.
By streamlining your information. Recruiters and hiring managers readily admit that they do not spend a lot of time with individual resumes. They want the important facts up front and easy to locate; they will not hunt through your resume for contact information, skills, accomplishments, education, and experience. I often help job applicants who either bury important facts too far down in their resume or do not know when to stop writing. Sometimes they spend paragraphs describing their experience with outdated technologies or first-time jobs that they left decades ago or a particular accomplishment that has no relationship to the job posting or advertisement. As a professional full-service resume writer, my job is to focus resumes to match the expectations of recruiters and hiring managers.

I am proud that Robin’s Resumes® is a full-service resume writing company, and I look forward to helping you.

What Is Full Service Resume Writing? Part I

Aug 14 2016

As you may have noticed from the home page of my website, Robin’s Resumes® offers a complete line of resume writing services. These include not only writing your resume, but writing your LinkedIn profile and cover letters. It is important that your resume, LinkedIn profile, and cover letters support each other in content, tone, and style.

Are you somehow cheating if you hire a full service resume writer? Because I write resumes for executives who lead the same companies where you are applying, I can tell you that no one considers professional resume writing a “cheat.” Companies are hiring you for your professional skills; they are not hiring you because you wrote your own resume! My professional skill is making sure your skills, accomplishments, education, and experience stand out in a concise, well-written resume that is suitable for applicant tracking systems and for review by hiring managers and recruiters.

I work from your existing resume and a sample of the job postings and advertisements that attract you, in order to determine what type of package would best suit you and whether I can help in you win interviews in your particular field or area of expertise. Once we agree on what your expectations, I send you a questionnaire to gather the most information possible. I may follow up with a personal phone interview afterwards to clarify or expand upon the information in the questionnaire.

Over the years, Robin’s Resumes® has assisted job seekers at every level, from C-level to recent college graduate, and in both technical and nontechnical fields, including engineering, research, Human Resources, medicine and healthcare, social work, supply chain management, and law among many others. In addition, I have mentored other resume writers, given resume advice to job seekers both on online and during events, and achieved the highest certifications in the resume writing field.

So in my case, “full service” includes the knowledge, skills and experience to write a resume that attracts the attention of hiring managers and recruiters. I will never guarantee an interview—no one can do that, given the many circumstances that have to come together before an interview can take place (including timing, competition from internal candidates, and the company’s commitment to filling the job).

But I can guarantee that, as a professional and full service resume writer, I will expend every effort to give you the best possible resume, LinkedIn profile, and cover letters. Contact me today.