Resume Writing and Job Search Coaching for Managers and Directors:
Resume writing and job search coaching services for management-level career-minded people who lead teams, programs or projects and have experience in Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Operations, IT, Human Resources, Creative Services, Public Relations, Finance and Accounting
Your Success Path Can Be Achieved With a Branded Resume, Leading-Edge Job Search Strategies and Expert Coaching
Your Resume
You’ve proven that you have what it takes to succeed, but your resume doesn’t reflect it. It doesn’t tell your story. Maybe you’ve simply been adding jobs to it over the years. Maybe you haven’t needed a resume. Or maybe you’ve tried to write it, but it’s just not capturing the real you.
Your resume is a crucial component to landing an interview that could change your life, but it’s lacking critical pieces of evidence: your expertise, your success stories and your differentiating strengths.
But the most important missing piece is what makes you unique: your value proposition, your brand—this is what employers are looking for in their ideal candidate.
In the meantime you’re stuck in a position that doesn’t suit you anymore. You’re burning out, or are no longer on a fast track like you once were.
Your frustration has reached a peak, so this is no time to be searching for a better job with a resume that doesn’t do you justice.
Fortunately, you’ve found someone who has been writing resumes for two decades, has been published in resume books and has even won prestigious industry awards for resume writing.
I have made it my life’s work to help talented managers and directors like you to reach their true potential with a resume that opens doors to the positions you want.
What You Get With Our Professional Resume & Cover Letter Writing Package
Initial consultation to help managers and directors define your career objective if you are unsure- My proprietary pre-consultation survey to guide in recalling and organizing your education, experience and other important information you may not have thought about. The other advantage of this process is that you will be fully prepared for interviews—that’s what my clients tell me all the time.
- One-hour interview consultation to capture all the information I need to build an interview-winning resume unique for your background in MS Word and ASCII formats (for online use) delivered by email
- Cover letter that you can easily customize to the jobs you are targeting. Keep in mind that employers are going to see you for the first time not in the interview, but on the written page, so the cover letter is your first chance to shine.
- Thank you letter to tailor and use as a follow up with your interviews
- Unique references page that helps employers learn more about you and what you can offer
Career Tools and Services Beyond the Resume
Job Search Coaching
Job search today is dramatically different thanks to the Internet. With recruiters and employers using e-networking and other online sites, you need to become highly visible online and savvy in your search efforts.
You know that a project as important as your job search can’t be successful using hit-or-miss techniques. It takes up-front planning, coordinated effort, and intentional follow-through. An effective career coach can help you develop and implement a strategic plan that will get the results you want.
Consider what working with us will do for you…
- Your unique brand will stand out, differentiating you from the competition, and attracting the attention of hiring managers.
- With your strengths strategically packaged, you will be positioned to nail that perfect position.
- Nothing will be left to chance. You’ll have a well-marked roadmap to follow that will keep you on the success track in your executive job search.
- Communication is key in leadership. You will be able to clearly articulate your value to employers so they will see you are the perfect candidate to meet their needs.
- Having the right documents and training will open doors and increase your invitations to executive job interviews.
- You will confidently manage and sail through interviews – even those tough or sensitive questions – with clear and compelling responses.
- Your new subordinates will accept your leadership because you will be well prepared to change industries or transition into a new executive position.
- Armed with the secrets of building a strong network, you will be able to strategically leverage your influential contacts to new opportunities.
- You’ll be able to present yourself as an industry leader.
You will reap the reward of effective salary negotiation – getting the compensation package you deserve.
If you’d like to team with me so that you can shorten your job search, then…
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Additional Value-Add Career Documents and Job Search Tools
To help you distinguish yourself even more in a highly competitive market, consider additional career documents and other job search tools that provide a competitive advantage by communicating your personal brand and value proposition:
- Cover & Other Letters—Two-thirds of hiring managers surveyed expect and want to receive cover letters and make decisions based on this document. Great letters stand out, while the inferior letters get tossed aside. Types of cover letters you may need for your search include: resu-letters when a resume may not be to your advantage, consulting letters, networking, direct approach to employers, ad response, search firms, interview follow-up to reinforce your candidacy, and more.
- Win the View Interview Consulting – A powerful new interview presentation tool.
- Critical Leadership Initiatives Document—Showcases your top 3-4 career-defining leadership initiatives in detail that relevant to a particular employer and enables you to position yourself above the competition.
- One-Page Networking Resume—A great tool to use in networking conversations, recruiters and employers who seek a one-page snapshot of your background.
- Management Career Biographies—Often requested by recruiters, your bio should reveal your personal brand: your unique promise of value, attributes, competitive advantage blended with your successful history.
- LinkedIn Profile—To help you achieve digital distinction in today’s competitive job market, a LinkinIn profile is a necessity. We will craft your profile to post on LinkedIn and other e-networking sites to help you gain digital traction.
- Personal Branding—Understanding your personal brand is key to helping you get the job you want because it distinguishes you from others and manage your online identity. You’ll understand your professional identity in a way that you never have previously through a powerful methodology and 360-degree assessment created by “personal branding guru” William Arruda. Through this process, you will also have critical takeaways for answering the “tell me about yourself” question and guiding marketing messages for your online profiles and bios.
- Online Identity Management—Managing your reputation online is key to being found by employers and recruiters. It’s no longer just for businesses. More than 80% of employers and recruiters today use the Internet to make hiring decisions. If you don’t control it, it will control you. As a member of an advance team of certified Online Identity Management strategists, we can guide you in becoming digitally distinct, dealing with digital dirt and populating Google with positive on-brand content about you.
- Interview & Salary Negotiations Coaching—You will be able to identify and communicate your unique business value, tell your compelling success stories relevant to employers’ needs, ace killer interview questions, and negotiate the salary you deserve.
- References Document—This document guides interviewers to ask your professional references questions that emphasize your successes.
- Web Resumes—Web resumes offer you a simple, confidential and fully updatable template system, virus-free and with confidentiality controls.
- e-Career Portfolios—The results of your professional career come to life with an e-Career Portfolio. Just as a resume summarizes your education, achievements and talents, the e- Career Portfolio provides an innovative and technology-savvy, 3-D presentation of the value of your professional talent.
- Confidential Online Resume Posting and Management—Gain instant exposure to employers in your target industries and geographic areas through a targeted campaign created for you.
- Employer Research Services—Save countless hours of employment research. Spend your time networking and interviewing more effectively with the information you receive.
- Targeted Resume Distribution to Executive Recruiters—Put your resume in the hands of the right recruiters that specialize in your function, industry, and level. With access to a top-quality database of executive recruiters, we will cull the right names and email addresses and prepare a custom email distribution of your resume and cover letter. This an easy, low-cost option to increase the reach of your own networking activities and personal outreach to recruiters.
- Reference Checking Services—One of the most common reasons job seekers are rejected for positions today is due to negative job references from their former employer. Find out what you can do to protect your career.
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