Tuesday, April 15, 2014

How To Choose The Right Executive Resume Writing Service

By Anita Ortega


Ever since the massive loss of jobs on Wall Street and the economic collapse a few years ago it has been quite challenging to get an executive position. Executives nowadays have to compete with each other to land a position in many companies wherein these positions are also getting very scarce. As such, executives need to have good curriculum vita and resumes to compete with each other to land such positions and jobs. Thus it may be to the executive advantage that he or she have a good executive resume writing service at his or her disposal.

One would notice that there has been an explosion in these kinds of service offerings. One can see them on print media, the internet, and even spam mail. You would actually be spoilt for choice when you start looking. What skill you will really need is how to look for one that can get you the right results.

Setting up a checklist with some search criteria should help do the trick in choosing the right service for you. Remember that price does not necessarily factor always as a criteria, although it is very important. There are other qualities or criteria that you can consider. On your checklist, consider the following points being relevance and adaptability, level of conciseness, and clarity and accuracy.

Much has changed in the way that curriculum vita and resumes are made and used these days. In the past it was expected for one to have thick resumes with complete references and supporting work experience documents and the like. However, we are in a new age and times have changed, so we must also adapt the way we do things so that we become more relevant.

The resume adapted for the modern age is much different from the resumes of the past. The ones in the past were a lot of pages thicker and much more detailed with supporting documents. Nowadays they are much briefer and more to the point. Also there are standard professional formats used so when someone looks at it they can tell precisely what kind of professional is applying for what. Curriculum vita of today also use 14 points as a standard size and usually uses times new roman and arial as its stylized font.

What you have written and submitted should be concise. It should be to the point and direct. The more information you can put across in as little words as possible will do wonders in your being shortlisted. Have a wide use of vocabulary but avoid extremely superfluous or exaggerated words.

Accuracy in what you write is also very much needed. Employers will only look at your resume if it fits the job at hand. Look at the job requirements on the posted ad and fit your skills to match those that are needed. This rule of thumb will go a long way in you getting the attention you need and the much sought after job interview.

Now that you have these criteria, try to look for the service that can provide a product with all these elements. Ask each one that you are thinking of hiring to provide you with a sample so you can have a look if these elements exist in the samples that they provide. Once you find at least three services that satisfy you, then continue further by applying other criteria, such as price and others, so that you will end up with only one.




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