FAQs - Comprehensive Career Consulting
Our Competitive Advantage
We not only focus our attention on resume writing, we also examine your role in the entire job search process; from analyzing the job description, conducting employer due diligence to assess cultural fit, resume revamp, LinkedIn Tutorials as well as recruiter and decision-maker outreach.
Beyond simply being hired for a job, we want to help you find a good fit. According to a study conducted by Stanford University Business School’s Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer, job-related stress causes over 120,000 deaths in America annually. Often, this is result of either poor organizational leadership or bad cultural fit. We want to help you find a position where you will have high job satisfaction and thrive in a healthy work environment.
We use a solutions-based approach. We believe that organizations are created to solve problems and require employees to help solve them. Thus, your resume should highlight your track record of problem solving capabilities.
Our resume writers teach you to communicate your value to your target employers in their language to put you at the top of the interview pile. When able to, we will advocate on our clients’ behalf. We also teach you the skills to sell yourself later in your career.
We not only revamp your resume, but we also develop a strategy for you to create a simple and repeatable application process to produce consistent results, increasing your chances to be shortlisted for interviews. The whole process – from initial meet and greet to resume reformatting, job description analysis, employer due diligence, resume revamp, LinkedIn tutorials, recruiter and decision-maker outreach, as well as grammar checks – may take up to 14 hours. Our cost takes this time and effort into account. What you learn throughout our processes and the tools you walk away with will help you throughout your career.
We blend hardcore consulting services with tutorials and coaching to build your skillset and get you a long-term competitive advantage. We give you hours of 1-on-1 support at every stage of the job application submission process. We are co-creators and your trusted advisors who help communicate your value and strengthen your professional brand.
We understand that working with a professional resume writer is a significant investment. We also appreciate that not everyone can afford this service. That said, we encourage you to think of our service as a key investment in your career that will reap strong returns very quickly. Unfortunately, we cannot provide discounts on our career consulting services.
If you absolutely cannot afford to pay, please consider our Ultimate Resume Rebrand and Cover Letter Toolkits to get started. The result will not be as good as what you will get from a customized service, but it will be better than using a random template without guidance.
Our Resume Services
In total, there are 3 rounds:
Round 1: Our writer scrutinizes, deconstructs previous versions and reformats those versions into a master version
Round 2: You and the Resume Writer will co-create your resume line by line as you go through the career rebranding process.
Round 3: A separate team will review resumes and cover letters for grammar, typos and errors.
We can conduct our services in Microsoft Word, G-Suite or Apple’s Pages – whichever is most comfortable for you.
This will depend on coordination between you and your resume writer. The two of you will probably be working hand-in-hand for around 14 hours. Once the two of you complete the work, agree on the final product and you make final payment, you will receive the final product within 24-48 hours.
You will be required to send previous versions of your resume as well as 2-3 job descriptions you will be interested in pursuing.
During the process, you will also fill out a worksheet of the problems you’ve solved that will be used to summarize your experiences in your resume and give you a leg up during your interviews.
You will also be required to show up on time for all meetings and provide at least 24 hours notice if you need to cancel. During our meetings, you will need to be fully present with your undivided attention and prepared to work with all requested information.
You and your assigned resume writer will partner to write it together. He or she will be recording the main points and interviewing you and you will be answering questions. Together, the two of you will wordsmith the document into a cohesive and compelling story to fully communicate your value. Through your work together, you will produce authentically powerful bullet points and impactful statements that will resonate with and wow your target employer.
Once the two of you have finalized content, a separate party may thoroughly proofread your resume and possibly cover letter (if you choose to purchase this service), correcting only typos, grammar errors and design issues.
We’ll create the best resume possible for you and give you the tools to prepare you for a successful job search, but we can’t guarantee you a job. Don’t believe any resume service that tells you otherwise – they are selling you snake oil. Resumes are the cornerstone of the job search process, but there are too many other factors involved for us to be able to make job offer guarantees.
We are writing the resume together and will be finished when you are satisfied. You will submit the final payment when we agree on the final resume and will receive the product no later than 24-48 hours after the payment was received.
If you are not getting interviews within 6 months, we will look back and identify the problems and tweak it to ensure you have success. If you don’t succeed, we don’t succeed either.
The resume version that you and your resume writer co-create is a template. You will only have to tweak a few specific areas for every position, depending on the needs of your target employer. The process we teach you can be applied to all roles below C-Suite and/or Executive Director Positions. This type of process focuses on your technical and functional abilities.
Once you reach C-Suite Levels, your management, leadership, strategic and compliance skills matter more to decision-makers and require a different model to communicate these values. If you are eyeing C-Suite positions, please consider our Executive Positioning Service.
Our Cover Letter Services
We cannot co-create personalized cover letters as a separate service from the 1 to 1 resume service. As much as we would like to, we view cover letters as an extension of your resume. For example, your resume tells the story of your ability to solve a myriad of organizational challenges. Your cover letters explain how you can leverage your expertise to solve your target employers’ immediate challenges. However, if you are interested in procuring a template with a how-to guide and checklists at a very affordable price you can purchase it via this link.
The goal of the cover letter is to demonstrate that you are the one to address the organization’s immediate needs. Thus, it needs to be concise and tailored to that specific employer’s needs. We will also provide you with a template that you can use to draft simple and powerful cover letters that will make your target employers want to meet you!
Service, Getting Started & Payment
In addition to the Final Resume and Cover Letter Products, you will receive the following:
✔ Job Description Analysis and Organization Due Diligence Tutorials
✔ Analytic Worksheet that breaks down your experience, helping you land and nail interviews
✔ 1-on-1 LinkedIn Tutorial
✔ Guidance on identifying and cultivating relationships with key recruiters and decision-makers that will help you throughout your career
✔ A consistent and repeatable process for applying for jobs and increasing chances for interview requests
Our clients continually remark on how much additional benefit they receive from our 1-to-1 resume and cover letter processes. They come out with improved communication skills and more confidence to advocate for themselves as they effectively align their skills and experience to their target employers’ needs.
After our 15-minute conversation and you agree to the proposal and payment plan, we will send you a PayPal invoice. Here is a typical payment plan for resume, cover letter and LinkedIn Optimization services:
Payment 1: Prior to Strategy Session (In Full)
Payment 2: 50% of remainder prior to resume analysis, deconstruction and formatting
Payment 3: 50% prior to sending client final living document drafts
Given that we are co-creating a product, it is all about chemistry between the resume writer and you. Therefore, we have a 15-minute meet and greet to assess our partnership fit. If we decide to move ahead, we will send you a proposal outlining the process.
Once you agree to the proposal and terms via signature and make the initial payment, we will begin our work together.