Your cover letter and resume is your poster child and the first impression on prospective employers. Starting from the cover letter, you need to convince the hiring manager that you are the right person for the open position and that you are really motivated to do exactly this job. You are not the only person sending application documents, most likely there are many resumes from your competitors the organization or company is going to receive. If you don’t write a cover letter and resume that stands out of the crowd, your chances of being invited for a job interview are remote. 

To make it clear: the purpose of your cover letter and resume is to get an interview call and not a job. So, consider your cover letter as a type of sales letter for your resume that needs to be clear and precise. It needs to highlight the most important points of your career and life, capable of attract the attention of the potential employer motivating him to give you a call and invite you for an interview. 

Writing a resume that really stands out of the crowd is not an easy task, even with the great number of sample resumes available in the Internet. Just search for “resume samples” or “resume templates” in Google or Yahoo and you’ll get tons of pages offering free resume and also cover letter samples. But using these templates, you might also have experienced that there is very little or no positive response and that nobody invited you for a personal chat or interview. But what went wrong? Didn’t you really know how to put together all the information that in a way you need to show in order to prove that you’re the right person for the job? Or didn’t you know exactly what do add to the resume and what to leave?

If you find yourself struggling to create a really powerful resume, you may want to take into consideration looking for outside help. This can be the help of a friend of family member experienced in resume writing or it can be in the form of a professional resume writing service.

What are the Benefits of a Professional Resume Writer?

The mayor benefit of a professional resume writer is the experience they have. For an experienced resume writer it will be easy to crystallize your strengths and to piece together your career achievements. An important plus in using an external resume writer is also the fact of having an independent and unbiased view of your person and also that this person is going to write a resume with the eyes of a hiring manager. In contrast, while writing the resume by yourself sometimes it’s hard to know what you should focus on your career achievements because you’re too involved in it.

Professional Resume wrier may discover details in your career description you never recognized, details that really can give your document the required edge against your competitors. In general, you’ll get an advantage in hiring a professional resume writer, as you will receive a document with a real professional touch, optimized to get you the job interview. Based on the received professional resume, it will be much easier to adapt it to actual job openings. You should never make the mistake sending your resume without tuning the description of your professional skills and experience to the specific job description.

What should I consider when using a Professional Resume Writer?

When looking for a professional resume and/or cover letter writing service you should take care that their service has a success guarantee. Many of these service providers provide a money back guarantee if their resume didn’t get any positive results within a definite time. A good professional resume writer should have a success quote of above 90%, which means that less than 10% of their clients are claiming their money back. 

As a conclusion, in general it is beneficial to get started using a professional career service. Even though these services have a quite considerable cost, this investment pays back very soon when you get your new job within a few weeks instead of a few months time. If you continue using this service for all job applications or if you adapt the resume and cover letter to each job application by yourself, depends on your personal budget and the time you are ready to invest. 

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