It’s a highly competitive job market, and you’re going to work hard for a good position at highly competitive jobs.  Maybe you’re a wizard at interviews and can charm your way into any job, but that won’t help you unless you score an interview.

And what determines whether you get an interview?  Your resume. 

Your resume isn’t simply a list of your education, jobs, accomplishments, and goals.  It’s an advertisement – an advertisement for you.  In just one or two pages, you need to be able to convince the person reading that it’s worth their time to call you in for an interview.

If your resume is stale, bland, boring, or – worst of all – poorly written, you’ll never get your foot in the door.

That’s why more and more people chose to hire a professional resume writing service to help them rejuvenate their resume.

Do You Need a Professional Resume Writing Service?

The first thing to consider is whether this is necessary.  The truth is, not everyone needs a professionally written resume.

For example, if you are a student looking for your first “real” job, your resume might be short and uninteresting.  Employers know that and expect it.  If you’re applying for an entry-level position, these employers likely aren’t very picky about resumes at all.  Your attitude and interviewing skills will be much more important than your resume.  You could also choose to take a personality assessment and you this as a sales tool during the interview process.  The reports that you get from a personality assessment can help you enhance resume with language that talks about your unique value.

On the other hand, you should consider a professional resume writing service if:

• You are genuinely qualified for the positions you seek but can’t seem to get enough interviews.
• You’re trying to get a raise or promotion and want to showcase your value as a worker.
• You’re making at least $30,000 a year and you have a solid job or two under your belt.  At that point, employers expect an excellent, well-polished resume.
• You have extensive work or educational history and are having difficulty deciding which elements of that history to emphasize.
• You have a spotty history and want to emphasize the good while minimizing negatives, such as significant gaps in your employment history.
• You lack strong writing skills.  That’s fine. Most jobs don’t require you to be Ernest Hemingway – but you’ll want a real writer polishing your resume.

In any of these situations, a resume writing service could be an excellent investment into your career and your future.

Four Critical Facts About Professional Resume Writing Services

1 – The process should take at least a few days.

Beware resume services that promise a 24-hour turnaround!  A great resume takes a few days to build, or possibly a week.  Services that promise to provide you a resume in a matter of hours will be doing slipshod work, most likely working from templates where they fill in your information.

A professional resume writing service will take the time and effort necessary to provide you with a genuinely exceptional resume.  That typically takes a few days, but often takes longer if you decide you want to add language that speaks to your personality and not just your job experience.

2 – Hiring a resume service is not “fire and forget.”

To produce a great resume, the writer will need to know you and your work history in considerable detail.  For starters, you will fill out an extensive form detailing your personal history, work history, educational achievements, career goals, and more.  This account is what provides the raw material for your resume.

However, before completion of the resume, you’ll spend some time collaborating directly with your writer.  This “interview” is typically done via phone/VoIP calls or by email.  Taking time for this critical step is one reason the process often takes a while.  That’s a good thing because the extra work will significantly improve the resume you receive!

3 – You get what you pay for.

If you hire a cheap resume writing service, you’ll get a cheap resume.  It’s as simple as that.

Professional resume writing services typically charge a few hundred dollars for a resume.  It might sound like a lot, but this process will take a week or so and require a lot of dedicated effort on the part of the writer.  The high costs are necessary to pay for the work involved.

Look at it as an investment into your career, and it will be well worth the cost.

4 – Guarantees almost always have a catch.

Finally, be wary if a resume-writing service offers broad guarantees, such as “doubling your interviews.”  Once you read the fine print, you’ll discover that these guarantees are far less comprehensive or attractive than they initially seemed.  They’ll usually have arbitrary (and short) cutoff dates or extreme restrictions on the guarantee’s applicability.

Choose a resume writing service based on the quality of their work, not their gimmicky offers.

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