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JOB-HUNTING IS A SERIOUS BUSINESS
More Than Just A Résumé – We Offer A Job-Seeking System:
- Our professional résumé format has been designed in consultation with Australian employers, managers and employment agencies.
- We can help with Application or Approach / Expression of Interest Cover letters.
- We can assist with Selection Criteria / Person Specification application responses.
- We can advise on strategies to tap into the hidden job market.
- We can provide guidelines on how to use your professional résumé more effectively.
- We can make suggestions to increase your chances of a successful job interview.
Common Traps or Misconceptions:
- Underestimating the value of a professionally written résumé and looking for a low cost.
- Thinking that your résumé is a “necessary evil” rather than a valuable document or tool that can help you improve your employment status and financial future.
- Not realising just how many others your résumé will have to compete with in a highly competitive situation. It is not always the best person, but often the best presented person who will come out in front.
In A Nutshell:
- Understand the function of your résumé and what you expect it to do for you.
- Your résumé is a document that reflects your unique, individual qualities; your talents, experience, skills and achievements. It is the first and often the only chance you will have to influence a prospective employer to grant you that vital job interview.
- A good, professional résumé is an investment in your future, but a poor one can be just an expensive failure. This can ruin a job opportunity where you may have had success which is a mistake most people cannot afford to make.
Managers tell us that only 20% of all the résumés that they see are considered to be good
The remaining 80% of résumés range from very poor to being more or less acceptable
Our objective is to plan and develop your résumé so that it makes the top 20% level. This is not achieved by merely typing information into one of the many generic formats that are available from various sources and adding competency statements that are picked from a variety of generic lists.
Times and requirements have changed. Much of the published information about résumés that some people have been using came out more than 10 years ago. Most experienced recruiters or managers have seen it so many times that they are no longer influenced by it and take no notice of it.
We have closely followed the trends and updated our formats several times in the last 10 years. About 30% of our clients are managers which helps us to gain good quality current market feedback from discussions with the managers and also by studying or researching information from current employment related publications.
Job applications need to be simply presented with the relevant details, formatted logically with aesthetic appeal and written in a concise manner. No busy manager or recruiter is going to thank you for trying to make them read more than is necessary to get the story.
Email is a handy device for communicating simple details, but does not come even close to a proper discussion on complex matters. If necessary quite reasonable outcomes can be achieved by email if the information supplied is comprehensive and good quality, but usually a better result will be achieved in personal matters by having a direct discussion.
Effective personal résumés and job applications are developed and produced as a result of a joint or partnership effort, it is not a one sided operation. The details come from you.
Different individual résumé formats
We develop a range of résumé formats to suit different job / employment requirements.
For Example: General Level – Mid Level – Manager Level – Executive or Complex Level.
Generally higher level positions will need higher level applications to meet the competition.
The cost will depend on your individual situation and the nature of the job you are seeking.
We conduct an initial discussion / interview to gather all the relevant details, then analyse the information, plan your resume and develop a strategy to present your details in the appropriate format to counter any difficulties, suit your experience and objectives such as the type of work you are seeking.
Everyone gets their own résumé at the level they need, not just information typed into a generic format that is sometimes more than 10 years old.
Since our approach is individual instead of “one size fits all” the cost will be related to your own personal résumé requirements which we can establish by having a quick discussion.
The outcome for you is a résumé that is more likely to help you achieve your objectives.
Details needed to produce a Professional Personal Résumé
- Education and any additional courses of any nature, including year and provider
- Employment history, including names of employers, dates, positions and key duties
- Voluntary or community work, paid or unpaid (especially for transferable skills)
- Special achievements in career, academic or sporting areas (persistence or discipline)
- Commendations or awards of any nature (can show performance or dedication)
- Interests, hobbies and leisure activities (sometimes; if they support skills or attributes)
- Memberships (Current) of organisations or associations (community or social interest)
- Telephone referees (3) – Name / address, position / title and organisation / company
We may not use all of this information, but will consider it in relation to highlighting areas which may be presented as relevant activities, experience, transferable skills, or desirable attributes depending on your objectives. We may ask additional questions if necessary.
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