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.

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!