Resume writing has become big business. Why? Everyone (well 95% of folks) need resumes.What? Certainly job-seekers need them, and people already employed should always have them on file. I work with people regularly at Jimmy Hall Writing Services/Atlanta, 404-580-1501. I know!
Your Resume
What about YOU, and your resume? Is it up-to-date? If not, you need to hire a solid resume writer to whip one into shape. For a great deal, I recommend that an online resume writing professional (like myself) be hired to assist you in this way with your job search.
Online Resume Writers
Resume writers that work online (usually from a home office) can offer top-quality work at a lower price, due to smaller overhead expenses. We save money on rental space and utilities, printing, and save time by operating via e-mail and phone calls - as opposed to attending meetings, etc.
In addition, most of us are now licensed or registered in our local counties. furthermore, like myself, almost all business writing professionals will at least have a website, and generally also a blog. Therefore, a simple click or two provides immediate writing samples for you!
A solid online resume writer, like other resume developers, will sell you for an interview. After all, a meeting or interview is the ultimate goal/objective of the resume. Interviews secure jobs, not resumes. Remember that!
Know Your Resume Content
So, know what is on your resume (representation of your working/educational life) backwards and forwards before interviews - and do not worry about leaving a little vagueness - requiring a meeting to understand!
~ Jimmy Hall,
404-580-1501, can help you!
Cover letters and follow-up letters can be extremely important in job searches, especially in this age of resumes without specific objectives and scores of candidates for each job opening. Do you need a cover letter or follow-up letter? Probably yes!
Cover letters personally outlining and pre-emptively portraying resume specifics, and follow-up letters reminding and enforcing the interviewer about you, can determine whether or not a job offer comes your way OR NOT. Each also presents you in a professional and detail-oriented light. They also demonstrate a strong desire for the job.
You need every edge possible in a competitive job market. Use them. Hire a good writer that know exactly what adjectives and words to employ, and how to arrange them in an informative and persuasive manner that zeros-in on your ability to fill the position (in both cases).
Hire a letter writer that can write as you talk, but perhaps in a crisp way. Make sure he or she is able to present, inform, persuade, call-to action, and thank all in one letter. The cover letter should show what you can contribute and what qualifications you possess for it.
The follow-up letter should focus on connecting with the interviewer again, and filling-in any holes that you absolutely know they noticed, while focusing on strengths he or she admired. get the picture?
At my writing service (404-580-1501), I craft such letters in a professional manner for clients. Look me up when you can!
In this day and age, with such a lack of national leadership and a rather sad macroeconomic outlook, job hunting has become a real competition. Job hunting itself is harder work than actually reporting and performing a normal job or position. It should be taken seriously. I know, because at Jimmy Hall Writing Services (404-580-1501) part of what I do is help people secure job opportunities via writing their resumes and cover letters, and providing a few tips.
Job Searcher Responsibilities
A person seeking a job should write down all of their positive attributes, skills, solid experience, work history, education, awards, accomplishments, activities, abstract skills, tangible talents, and even their weaknesses. Why? This material is useful on a resume with the rest of the obligatory front-end info. Think in terms of descriptive adjectives. What about the weaknesses?
Resume Weaknesses?
The weaknesses are what will be worked on so that they will not stand out either in an interview or on-the-job or resume. Weaknesses should be deflected from, and maybe not always volunteered. If you fix them it is not an issue anyway, right?
Resumes Are Tasks
Your presentable resume is your first test from a potential employer. They know you probably did not write the actual resume, but your ability to delegate and turn-in the final product with good and orderly info is on trial! What?
Yes, you are being evaluated before even signing a work contract. The act of securing and presenting the resume is important enough to decide whether or not you deserve a job interview - like it or not. In fact, your resume will likely be looked at for about 30 seconds at a major company, and maybe a minute elsewhere. In that time you either make the interview cut or NOT!
Pinpoint Resume Receipients
Once you have a good resume writer or resume developer and feed them the right info about yourself and what work you want to do and for what type of company/firm, the next step is to get the resume into people's hand, and hope for interviews.
So, why not brush up on what is placed upon your resume, and be ready tom defend it? Defend it? Yes. Why did you leave this job then? What were you doing between this and this time? If you are so great at doing this, why did they let you go?
I think that you get the idea. It also doesn't hurt to think about salary negotiation a little, but first things first - you need job interviews. Talk to friends, read papers, look at online job boards, cold call companies, think about places where you already do business that know you, etc.... Have places to send resumes. How about past employers, even? Maybe?
When you walk into interviews, be yourself; do not be fake or plastic. By the same token, however, do not be TOO INFORMAL either - despite the interviewer's actions. Simply be confident and know your stuff. Think in terms of you and the company evaluating each other. It is NOT so one-sided, really. You might NOT like them!
Connect With Interviewers
Do your best to connect personally with whoever you meet with in each successive interview. Why? let's face it, people hire who they like. That is the bottom line. Be pleasant and be armed with a sincere smile and you just might succeed!
Summary Of Resume Scenario
In a nutshell, hire a great resume writer/resume developer (Me, me, me!), know your stuff and be comfortable with yourself by interview time, and exchange info with your interviewer and make a connection with him or her or them.
If I can help with your resume or cover letter (or even a followup letter after interviews in many cases), please let me know (Jimmy Hall - 404-580-1501).
