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 The resume is by far the most important document in your job search and your greater career path. It is the single most important factor in whether you will receive an interview, and the first – but preferably not the last – chance for employers to get a sense of what you can offer them. Regardless of the level of experience you may have, the quality of your resume may make all the difference between getting an interview and getting overlooked. Many job seekers underestimate the importance of a quality resume not only in getting a job, but in getting the right job and determining salary.
Leave it to the Pros
The first reaction from many job seekers is that a professionally written resume is too expensive; that it’s a luxury they cannot afford. Why should I pay to have it done, they ask, when I can do it myself? The fact is that much in our lives is quite wisely left to professionals. We use professional dry cleaners for certain outfits that need special care, and lawyers for vital legal matters, hair stylists for very special occasions when we need to look our best. Having established how important your resume is to your job search, why not use a professional to make sure it’s the best it can be? Why would you spend hundreds on a new suit or nice shoes for an interview, but hesitated to spend one dollar on the document that stands between you and that interview? Certainly, in today’s competitive job market, a professionally written resume is not a luxury, but rather a much-needed leg up on the competition.
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Though their services and prices do vary, a professional resume writer can target your resume for the job you want, make it stand out against the competition and make you look better on paper than you ever thought you would. Just like clothes, one size does not fit all. As your experience level changes, so should your resume. Resume writing services have several options to fit your experience level in order to give you that competitive edge.
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2 Responses for "Why Do I Need a Professionally Written Resume?"
This article fails to point out that quite often it is the COVER LETTER and not the resume which both 1) grabs the recruiter’s attention and 2) argues your talents on your behalf. Also ignored here is the value of talking to the recruiter in person when your resume and cover letter are dropped off. The best first impressions are made both by personal contact as well as a powerful cover letter.
The article asks: “Why should I pay to have it done… when I can do it myself?” This is a VERY good question, and one this article fails to answer. Learning about the career process BY YOURSELF is an excellent way to proactively involve yourself in deciding your own career future, and hence writing your own resume is in fact a very good idea. But instead of answering this crucial question, the article ducks it, and asks: “…why not use a professional…?” And by choosing to answer the question with another question, the authors of this article show how truly weak their argument really is.
Why NOT use a professional?
1. Because a professional will not know how to recognize the epiphanies, life-changing realizations, and other moments of clarity that YOU WILL PERSONALLY encounter — but only if you approach this career challenge by yourself — on your own.
2. Because resume-writing is not some murky, opaque skill that only a select cadre of headhunting elites can master; you CAN do it, just like them.
3. Because people cannot be expected to successfully manage their own career paths if they do not practice these basic skills in a HANDS-ON fashion.
4. Because once you take a hard, critical look at a professionally-produced resume, you will see that it’s really not much better than what could be produced by any person who has sufficient drive, determination, and a reasonably good computer and printer.
Unlike the dry cleaners, lawyers, and hairstylists (inappropriately) referred to in the article, you do not need professional training and/or years of schooling to write a resume! A resume is simply a list of what you’ve been up to: one carefully written and highly presentable, perhaps — but a list nonetheless. Resume-writing is a skill that CAN be learned.
So be proactive! Don’t pass the buck to some “resume guru” — they can do your work, but can never do your thinking or learning. By giving up the challenge, you are only cheating yourself. You’re on a road to the future, and you might as well learn something about yourself in the process. By not making YOUR OWN PERSONAL effort, you will only be ensuring that you WILL NOT learn anything along the way. So grab hold of YOUR future!
I want to add that a professional will only write you one resume geared to one particular job.
As jobs are various and don’t all require the same experience or skill, one will need to alter the resume continuously to reflect you resume for these various skills.
It would be quite costly to go back to the professional to alter the resume for each particular job you apply for.
Your resume have to evolve to reflect skills to a particular job and this is an ongoing process that needs continuously updating.
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