Monday, April 20, 2020

How to Choose a Professional Resume Writing Service

How to Choose a Professional Resume Writing ServiceTracy's resume writing service, 93304 is the name of Tracy and Susan Adams' New York City based business. They are a professional resume writer who specializes in technical and business resumes. They also have an outstanding portfolio of over 1000 resumes for you to choose from.Having an accurate resume can make all the difference when it comes to getting a job or promotion in your career. Resumes don't just tell the truth about who you are and what you've done; they also need to convey the right message. Resumes should convey the confidence and professionalism that employers look for when making their hiring decisions. So the first step in your resume writing process is to find out what qualities you want your resume to convey.Then you'll want to gather as much information as you can about each employer to find out what things you may need to include in your resume. You'll also want to talk to some colleagues and coworkers about the things they find to be important in the information you should include.After you've gathered all of the necessary information, you'll need to review your resume and determine how you will format it. Many times a professional resume writer will already have already prepared a template for you, but sometimes you'll need to do that if you're creating a unique resume for yourself.To add to the complexity of your resume you'll need to learn how to write professionally and clearly. You'll also need to take into consideration any biases you may have and be sure to hire people you trust with your resume.Once you have your resume completed, you'll want to sit down with a professional resume writer and have them make a few revisions to make sure your resume is in top shape for submission. A professional resume writer can help you make sure that you've included all of the information that you're looking for on your resume.If you aren't comfortable with an editor, then it might be a good idea to take a look at some sample resumes. Many of the top companies use these samples to create their own resumes and even run them through an editor to make sure they're accurate. In the end, it pays to make sure that you've completed your resume by hiring the professional resume writing service to complete your resume for you.

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Resume Tips Should You Include Short-Term Jobs

Resume Tips Should You Include Short-Term Jobs A reader asks: If the start-up company I was working for just closed down, should I put that in my CV? I was there for 5 months and I wonder, would it look weird? â€" Andrea There are many reasons that you might find yourself leaving an employer faster than you expected. Perhaps, like Andrea, you joined a start-up that closed. One of my clients was at a profitable start-up, but it still closed after failing to raise its second round of funding. Or maybe your role disappeared shortly after joining â€" this is common in professional services, where an advertising firm or consulting company staffs up in anticipation of a major client that fails to materialize. Or maybe you left earlier than planned, when the workplace culture turned out to be different from what you experienced in the interview process. Close Modal DialogThis is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button. When you work only a short time period, sometimes it’s better to just leave it off the resume. But sometimes it makes sense to keep it in. Here are some pros and cons to consider when including short-term jobs on your resume: Read Next: 25 Job Skills to Leave Off Your Resume How short is it? If you worked somewhere close to or just over a year, I would almost always include it because a gap of 12 months or more will catch a recruiter’s attention. Some recruiters question gaps starting at six months (especially if you have fewer years of overall experience) so you may want to include a job even at the six-month mark. Your resume reader may just assume you were inactive during this time, rather than gainfully employed. So I would include short jobs of six months or more on the resume. For jobs less than six months, the employment gap is less of an issue, and you don’t want to call attention to a short job unnecessarily, so you can leave it out. The one exception: if you are specifically asked in an employment application to list all the places where you worked, and you were a full-time employee at a company for less than six months â€" even just one day â€" then I would list it. You can more easily explain why you only stayed somewhere a short time rather than why you omitted something on your application. Is it a blip or a pattern? You might be afraid to list a short-term job, as it might call attention to what you perceive as a failed experience. If this is one short-term job out of several others where you stayed much longer, then this will be seen as a blip in an otherwise solid resume. If you have more than one short tenure on the resume, it starts to look like a pattern, and prospective employers will question your commitment, staying power, and even work quality. It could be that you just hit a patch of bad luck (I have met candidates who have had multiple, consecutive layoffs). In that case, see if you can recast your series of short-term jobs in a more positive pattern â€" pointing out how all jobs are in a specific area (e.g., same industry or type of role) or expertise (e.g., turning around failing units and then leaving once they’re performing or sold). Read Next: What Your Resume Should Look Like in 2016 Does it add to your overall story? Don’t assume a short-term job only detracts from your profile. If you worked even for a short time in a different industry than the rest of your background or in a different role or at a different type of company (e.g., a start-up when you’ve historically been at Fortune 500 companies), then your short-term job adds variety. If you’ve historically been all media and your short-term job is the one non-media experience you have and you want out of media, then you want to keep that non-media job in your resume. Sure, you’ll need to position your exit so that it doesn’t appear like you couldn’t hack it in a different industry, but if you have strong references and a reasonable story behind why you left, spinning this positively shouldn’t be a problem. There is no one answer to whether or not you should include a short-term job on the resume. Several factors come into play. What you ultimately need to consider is how including the job will look in combination with all of your experience, skills and background. This is actually how you need to look at positioning everything you do (short-term jobs, extra classes you take, volunteer activities and everything else but the traditional permanent, full-time experience). You always want to brand your experience and activities as part of a comprehensive whole â€" your unique value as a candidate.