Yes! You should hire a professional Resume Writer - Part 2
There are two ways for Employers and Recruiting Firms screen resumes. One method is done manually and the other is automated with technology.
Manual Screening process and the challenges for you:
The manual screening process requires somebody to look at a resume. The resume is either received from a job advertisement or found by searching a job board database. Regardless this is a difficult task and usually requires hours of reading through resumes. If a resume doesn’t stand-out with good career progression, keywords, and accomplishments, it will be looked over or rejected by the screener.
It’s important to understand job ads may result in hundreds of applications from candidates. The screener will find the first 5 to 10 candidates to interview without even going through all the resumes. You can’t fault them since most HR departments are understaffed, poorly trained, and overworked. They are constantly tasked with trying to fill multiple positions with few resources and hiring managers that will not take risks decent candidates.
Job boards like Monster and CareerBuilder have hundreds of thousands (100,000+) of resumes posted on their sites everyday. You cannot effectively compete with those numbers or even have much of a chance of being found. Furthermore, these resume databases are very costly and do not guarrantee a candidate. Therefore, most companies do not have access and will never see your resume anyway. The small percent of companies that purchase database access may not find your resume if you are not using appropriate keywords and phrases.
Wow! What are you going to do? Keep reading…
Automated Screening process and the challenges for you:
Human Resource departments and large recruiting firms are using software that seamlessly automates the recruiting process - job posting to pre-screening. This means when you apply to a job, the software receives, scans, and rates your resume in a matter of seconds. It may even tell you that you are not qualified and automatically remove you from the process. All this is done without any human interaction. To even further your frustration with this process, you may even have to register with each company you apply.
Oh well, get used to it. That’s where the job search process is going.
In part 3 I will discuss how a professional resume writer will make your resume stand-out in the manual screening process and receive a passing grade with the automated screening technology.
Part 1 - Yes! You should hire a professional Resume Writer.
May 13th, 2008 at 8:35 am
I look forward to reading part 3. How do you know this stuff?
May 14th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
How much does it cost to have a somebody write my resume? How do I get more information? Can Resume Spider do this? I have no problem spending money to help me find a job , as long as I understand the benefits.
May 15th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Jerry - I have been in the career industry for almost 10 years. I talk to job seekers, recruiters, career coaches and employers every day. I’ve learned a lot from other peoples mistakes and successes. I can keep going but dislike using the letter ‘I’. Hope this answered your question.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Terri - That is the right attitude and thought process for your job search. I don’t know the cost. ResumeSpider doesn’t write resumes. Though we will distribute your resume once you have somebody write it for you.
We have a handful of writers listed in our blogroll on the right side of this page. Please check-out their offerings.
November 5th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Just remember that professional resume writers make hundreds of decisions in collaboration with you on your professional marketing tools. My recommendations for each jobseeker we have served has been different for the last 17 years. So I recommend that you do what most top professionals do - have your resume professionally written. The costs to you could be anywhere from 400 to 1500 dollars depending on all the documents you may need, including Specialty Letters, Bio Resumes, CVs, Federally Resumes, Online Resumes and Resumes Catered to Several Goals/Types of Jobs.
You are asking a business or a recruiter to invest $30,000 to $100,000 in you and you present a less than professional image in your resume. Do you think you deserve to be interviewed? What are you saying to the hiring manager if your template based, cheap looking representation is your calling card? Unfortunately jobseekers think this is acceptable behavior. I don’t and neither do top hiring managers, recruiters and serious hiring managers.
If you have managed to not utilize a professional and you happen to have documents that land you solid interviews then congratulations.
But most resumes do not properly market the candidate or jobseeker fully or properly.
Three indisputable values of a great resume are:
1. They can be your only tool to secure a new job interview.
2. They become the embodiment of your career, career path and presentation skills.
3. They become the image of you, the picture of you to the hiring manager.
In job search you should utilize every advantage you can control. The professional resume writer and the professional writing process can make a huge, positive impact on you and your career.