Resume Tips: Why Hire a Professional Resume Writer?

The Pros of Hiring a Certified Resume Writer
By Anna Sexton: CARW, B.A., Owner of Advanced Career Solutions

Why hire a Professional Resume Writer? After reading this article, you will realize that there are many pros and very little, if any cons regarding the matter. The fact is your resume is your very own marketing document that holds the key to landing that interview essential for a great job. A bland, unattractive, template-based resume is not going to catch the eye of most hiring managers and recruiters. Thus, hiring an expert in the field is solely the way to go.

Market Yourself!
The key to creating a great resume is promoting highly valuable and unique skills and talents to your prospective employer, allowing them to see that you will be a great asset to their company. A Professionally Certified Resume Writer is highly trained and educated in this area. With excellent writing skills and a creative talent for designing a highly attractive document, a professional writer can utilize an excellent knack for words in highlighting unique strengths and qualities – effectively generating quality results.

• It is important to remember that a resume significantly represents your grammar and writing skills to a potential employer. Thus, you want to be sure and make a good first impression regarding this matter. Most jobs require some degree of writing, so a well written resume will answer the employers’ question on whether or not you will be successful in this area of the business.
• A resume is an advertising document that applies to the specific needs of an employer (i.e. income producing, money saving, and problem solving needs).
• Choosing a flattering format: Unfortunately, most resumes lack an attractive physical appearance. The majority are visually dull, preventing them from standing out amongst the vast pool of thousands of candidates. An essential marketing strategy for your resume is an attractive format and display. Especially being that this is usually the employers’ first impression.

Now, with all that said, maybe you are beginning to wonder whether or not your writing/grammar skills are up to par for the resume writing standards. Furthermore, unless you have performed extensive research regarding this matter, you probably know nothing about generating an attractive resume format that will appeal to the employer, and yet is appropriate for your line of work. But than again, you probably have very little time on the subject.

So in knowing that your resume is a substantial and worthy investment for your career, why not just hire a Certified Professional Resume Writer to do the job? And while this highly needed career investment may cost some money, you will definitely succeed at eliminating all other headaches related to the matter, allowing an expert to take over and significantly increase your chances of landing that interview and job.

Effective Keywords
A resume that packs valuable keywords, successfully signifying a strong ‘skill set’, remarkable knowledge support, impressive company and university names, degrees, licenses, and technological skills is also essential for a successful job search. Formatting your resume to this degree will be effective not only for the scanning of your resume on a physical level (by the hiring manger), but will more than likely generate results when read by scanners and searched within various databases or Internet searches.

• All good resumes include keywords (words that employers search for in order to detect critical experience, knowledge, and skills that are essential for the targeted position). Without these, you really don’t have a resume at all.
• In order to increase your chances within the market pool, you should first and foremost utilize your targeted industries’ keywords, combined with reasonable synonyms. For example: instead of just indicating a position as an Elementary Administrator, you could try this:
  

  ~ Elementary Administrator/School Superintendent/Educational Supervisor ~

This will significantly increase your number of hits.

• Positioning of Keywords: Keywords can be positioned throughout the entire resume, drastically increasing your percentage of hits. For example, instead of just simply including industry related keywords, followed by a bulleted list of skills/characteristics, you can distribute keywords within a list of professional achievements, the education and professional development sections (impressive universities, degrees, certifications, training programs/seminars, etc.). And last, but not least, within your employment history segment (company names, and achievements/skills listed within your employment profile).

Now, unless you have done some extensive research on the subject of resume keywords and their distribution, and I am assuming most people don’t have the time, then unfortunately you will be left completely in the dark when creating and distributing your resume. A professionally certified resume writer, on the other hand, will be highly trained and skilled within this particular arena, and thus will place you ahead of the ball game when developing your resume.

Get the Interview!
Last, but not least, you want to land that interview! And that interview highly depends on a mixture of successful ingredients within your resume (it’s marketing strategy; design layout and writing skills, successful distribution of keywords within all segments of the resume, etc.). And that is just to name a few. The following is a list on how a professionally written resume can help with the interview procedure:

• An excellent resume can help organize the interview process, successfully sustaining the interviewer’s focus on your core strengths and achievements. However, to get the best possible resume that assists in the interview process, you will need to put it in the hands of a professional.
• Most professional resume writers provide an extensive list of questions for their clients regarding career accomplishments and history. These questions are either provided over the phone or through a mere online questionnaire. Once you answer these career-based questions, or fill the questionnaire out to a core, you are more than likely set for the interview process, which is just another advantage to hiring an Expert Resume Writer.

On that note, I unfortunately will not have room in this article to embrace the many additional aspects of creating a results-focused resume, and how a professional can achieve this for you. However, I am confident that the information provided in this article should afford you with a pretty good idea of your own.