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Resume Critique & Review Service

 

We won't write your resume. 

Quite frankly, it takes several hours to write a great resume and that would get very expensive if we did it for you. Plus nobody knows you like you do.

Instead we will critique your resume through the eyes of a hiring manager. We will understand what you have to offer and we will make sure your resume' is well targeted for the kind of job you want.

As senior executives we have read thousands of resumes.  We have interviewed thousands of people and hired hundreds of those.  We know which resumes result in an interview and which ones get the delete button.

The Resume Critique service comes bundled with our 1 hour Career Counseling session because we have to get to know you and what your particular issues are.

You can not purchase this service by itself.  It just does not make sense.

The #1 Resume Tip Of All Time

The most important thing to know about a resume is that your readers are very busy and they are reading perhaps 10 or 20 resumes a day which gets very boring.  This means they will not read "beyond the fold" unless they are very interested in what you have said in the first few lines.

"Above the fold" refers to the top half of the first page.

So write as if the reader has only 30 seconds to scan the first half page.

 

7 Common Resume Mistakes:

1) If you don't catch your readers attention in the first half page ("above the fold") you will not get the interview. 

2) For many, the introduction and summary section are too long.  It's usually vague, confusing and and a real sleeper.  The first two lines better be highly focused and be in perfect alignment with what the hiring manger is looking for.

3) You forgot to tell the hiring manager exactly what you can do for him / her.  You need to do this above the fold.

4) You have not differentiated yourself from all the others.  I have 25 resumes here, why should I interview you?  What makes you so special?

5) Your chronological layout makes it look like you hop from job to job every two years when in fact you are very stable and dependable and you normally stay at least five years. You don't see it but your layout guarantees a trip to the trash can.

6) Your cover letter is too long and boring (most hiring managers don't have time to read cover letters)

7) The length of the resume does not match the amount of experience you have.  A recent grad might have only one page, but if you worked 10 years you should have 1.5 pages.  Never go over two pages.

 

 



 
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