10/18/2011

WHY SPEND MONEY ON A PROFESSIONAL RESUME IN 2012? IT PAYS TO GET PROFESSIONAL HELP.


Why spend money on a resume in 2012? To pay money to get good professional help will always pay. A first-class resume writer is worth his or her weight in gold.

Some people are willing to spend hundreds of dollars on a new wardrobe to look good during interviews, yet they are not willing to spend money on a resume. That piece of paper holds the key to the job interview and to your future.

In 2012, a job resume that works is NOT a luxury item or expense. It is a necessity. It helps you get interviews and land a good job.

The average time to find a job is now 33.6 weeks -- more than 8 MONTHS -- according to September 2010 data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. If it takes you 33 weeks to find work, you are missing out on 33 weekly paychecks. That money is gone. Poof. Up in smoke. Can you afford that? Add in a mortgage, car payments, healthcare and it only gets worse. That's the real cost of unemployment if your resume is not getting you job interviews.
In my 24 years as a resume writer, I've often seen how only one or two hundred dollars or more spent on professional help to make a resume more effective, is money very well spent.
Patricia O. spent only $150 and was chosen out of hundreds for a position in New York City as Assistant Property Manager. She was NOT the best qualified candidate. They said she had the best resume!

On 23rd August, 2011 Edward P. obtained an "amazing" IT Management position at Amazon after spending $250 on an excellent tailored resume that covered a few bases.
Antonio S., an Assistant Inventory Control Director reported that his improved resume opened the doors to six retail department stores he was interested in. He was able to discover who might be interested in hiring him and at what salary. It was the least expensive way of exploring the job market at $40 per job interview for a senior-level position.

Robert R., a Mechanical Engineer with a knowledge of making cardiac stents, spent $300 on a resume and his income increased from $96,000 to $120,000 plus a bonus when he was hired by Guidant.
I could give you hundreds and hundreds of examples of how spending $125 or $150 or $200 or $300 on a resume, resulted in dramatic improvements in jobs and increased earnings. In my view, there is NO better investment of your money than on an effective resume. Such a resume can be opening doors for you while you're asleep in bed.
The BEST person to ask for help is a skilled writer with lots of testimonials from successful clients. [ http://www.winning-resumes.com/testimonials.htm]

Austin Kiplinger, publisher of the Kiplinger Magazine, agrees about the importance of making an investment in your own career: "You are your own best investment!"
Please E-mail or call me for a FREE consultation or price quote.

mattgreene@aol.com
Tel.: 1-718-436-3504

7 comments:

hemenparekh said...

Text resumes will be around for a long time. Because everyone can type.

But everyone cannot write a story or a poem.

So, there will also be a demand for expert / professional resume – writers, for a long time to come.

But an ever-increasing number of recruiters feel that graphical / visual / audio resumes have an edge over plain text resumes – prompting emergence of job-portals such as

 www.VisualCV.com

which inspired me to come-up with my own

 www.CustomizeResume.com

( it is easy to be inspired, but , at the age of 77 , difficult to implement ! )

With regards

hemen parekh

hcp@RecruitGuru.com

Mumbai -- India

HCP said...

As compared to a jobseeker writing her own resume, a resume written by a professional expert resume-writer would any day prove better.

But

Before sending that well-written resume to a recruiter, can a jobseeker figure-out in advance what would happen if that resume

 gets " rated / ranked / scored " by recruiter ?

 gets compared automatically with resumes of other applicants ?

Will she get an interview-call ?

To know what is likely to happen , she has to just type "Resume Rater" in Google / Yahoo / Bing , and download this software tool ( free and without even login ) from any of the 35+ websites. Then rate her resume.

Resume Rater mimics the " resume-evaluation " process of recruiters’ minds but does it in an unbiased / objective way.
Resume Rater is absolutely non – discriminatory.

Regards

hemen parekh


Jobs for All = Peace on Earth

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Ashwell said...

Its a nice way to bring a quality resume but what about the unaffordable ones? Don't you think the cost is very high?

Ashwell prince
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resumedocket said...

A nice post covering an important issue. The only remark would be,
you never know what are the requirements for your editor, until you have completed at least a level.

Ashwell said...

It will be better to bring the quality resume but what for those unavoidable cases? Do you think that it cost much higher?

Thanks
Ashwell prince
Analyst Salary

Anonymous said...

Nice posting, this is the right way to bring the quality resumes. . . but the prices is too high.....


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