Résumés

You’re searching for a job; you need a very good résumé. Your circumstances don’t change your need for a good résumé—whether you’re recently graduated from university, re-entering the commercial world after raising a family, or in search of a better job with greater income, you need a good résumé.

Résumés share some things in common with Web site content: keywords and branding. One reason hiring managers and human resources staff like résumés prepared using Microsoft Word® is that they can quickly search for certain phrases or words. Yes, they perform keyword searches to identify potential candidates from amongst the hundreds or thousands of résumés they receive each day.

That’s why a technical writer may be approached (often), for example, a Unix system administrator position. This, despite the fact that the writer claims only to have written documents about Unix and Unix installations.

I will create for you a résumé that will get you before a hiring manager. How?

• I interview you to get all the facts that you need in your résumé
• I prepare and give to you for your review two text or PDF proofs of your résumé—one targeted by job function; the other a reverse chronology
• You send me the proofs with your changes
• I return your finished résumé when you hand me your money—within one week!