It is often awkward for someone to sell themselves through their resume. A job seeker/professional will not be able to write an interview winning resume articulating his/her achievements. An experienced & professional resume writer crafts the resume keeping in mind the target audience & ATS. As such they are well equipped to write career story & express how a professional has solved pain points of their employers in a concise way. This is akin to any celebrity willing to pencil down their biography. They generally hire ghost writers since they can showcase a bigger picture.
Executive summary
Spending time on executive summary & revisiting your past achievements, showcasing your skills & how you have created value/solved pain points for your employers will develop a professional compelling biography. Further including what kind of roles you are exploring & in which geography helps potential employers to evaluate a potential fit for current requirement.
Phase-1 Introspect & revelation
A professional resume writer will enable you to visualize complete career picture.
By asking you questions on how your past achievements, actions, skill sets & expertise have benefits your current & previous employers will help you articulate what kind of value you can create for your prospective employer.
This will help you evaluate your learning curve by introspecting your past successes &/or learning from failures. Besides this will also enable you to identify your key skills/expertise & why you are passionate about certain category of jobs
This will go a long way in helping you structure your next career move.
Phase- 2 Discovering yourself
Your interaction with resume writer during introspection phase will tell you a lot about your skills & strengths. Your writer creates a brand story for you & lists down salient features which will make you stand out from other job seekers/applicants. This will help you in :
- Developing a level playing field in interview & while networking.
- Structuring a strong & compelling summary for LinkedIn.
Past moves/failures cannot be changed. However a thoughtful discussion with our resume writer will help you evaluate gaps & tactfully include the same in your summary & structure a way in which you may present in interview. A pre-preparation of potential difficult questions which help you place comfortably in an interview.
Phase-3 Specialist resume writer
A specialist resume writer should be an industry expert with latest hiring practices. He should be well versed with contemporary practices such as ATS. Proficient resume writers are well versed with recruitment process in your sector/industry.
Phase-4 Concept of OAR
As you pass through the resume writing process, a resume writer shall ask you about so what you did? What was the objective of performing that task? What was the impact? What was the result/benefit to organisation? In other words, resume writer would convert your roles & responsibilities into meaningful outcome & write each bullet in form of OAR- Objective, Action & Result.
For instance, what was the end result of implementing a new system? Improvement in efficiency, cost savings, productivity, improvement in turnaround time & to what extent was this impacted.
All these revelations will help you prepare a selling story out of your career history which will ultimately help in interview preparation as well. You get a chance to substantiate/support your strengths with measurable claims & communicate your value/brand.
Phase-5 Why resume writer is the best bet for your successful job search?
Resume writers bring substantial resume crafting expertise & objectivity to resume. It would be very difficult for a job seekers to bring objectivity into the resume. However, having a resume writer to craft your resume gives you a competitive edge.
While looking to hire an executive resume coaching firm, make sure they have certified resume writers who would be willing to share samples of their work/resume already written.
Our Takeaway
The team of resume writers at Improvisador are experienced & industry specialists & bring expertise in writing across sectors & functions. They can visualize the content which you might overlook such as skills, employment patterns. Their expertise will help you articulate your achievements & success stories that will surely land you up with interview for the desired role you have been aiming for.
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