Powerfully Persuasive Resumes from a Vancouver Resume Writing Service

When Statistics Canada says that the average job search takes well over 15 weeks, a professional resume writer can make the crucial difference between a short job search and a long one. I’ve helped more than fifteen hundred clients move on to bigger and better career opportunities. Here are some of the reasons why my resumes win job interviews and make my clients happy.

First, unlike many practitioners who transitioned to resume writing from HR, my previous work was in financial supervision, purchasing and sales. After that, I founded my own company and made it profitable. This operational background gives me a deeper understanding of what employers are looking for than the job descriptions can provide.

Next, interviewing skills. The best way to increase your resume’s persuasive power is by presenting professional wins that show recruiters and employers how well you’ll perform in their open positions. But knowing what we should do doesn’t automatically enable us to do it. Facing the blank screen, many of us discover that knowing we should focus on our wins doesn’t help us remember more than one or two of them before our minds freeze.

And here’s where I bring a special skill to the table.

My dad was a TV journalist. Watching him work every night taught me how to ask questions that help clients get past mental freezes and remember significant work successes. So along with the basic questions that every resume writer asks, I ask questions that trigger memories and uncover forgotten successes. Often that process starts by asking my clients one or more “unaskable” questions: things that hiring managers would love to know, but job ads usually don’t ask about. Questions like: “What crises did you manage?” or “What disasters did you clean up?” Recounting the full scope of your accomplishments and your successes in managing tough challenges is a key tactic that helps you win job interviews.

However, uncovering and listing your accomplishments is not enough to ensure success. That’s why this professional resume writer’s final step is presenting your successes in ways that maximize their impact.

With thousands of people applying for a single job opening, managers don’t have time to read each word of every resume. Instead, they’ll only read the first third of the first page before making the “circular file/ interview pile” decision. Over the years, I’ve developed a range of strategies to take advantage of this practice, and I’ll pick the one that quickly captures — and holds — your prospective employer’s attention.

When hiring managers learn that you devised successful operations strategies, consistently delivered significant sales growth, created helpful procedural improvements, or whatever achievements mark success in your field, then job interviews will start happening. Instead of job searches lasting an average of 15 weeks or more, my BC clients report that my resume writing delivers results like:

• Multiple interviews for executive-level capstone positions within a few days,
• Ten interviews, three job offers (including one from a Fortune 500 company) — and a board membership in three weeks.
• Five interviews in sixteen days,
• Four interviews and two job offers in two weeks,
• Lower anxiety levels,
• Double-digit salary increases, and
• Additional income from winning new jobs faster that more than covered the cost of their new resumes.

Here are some of their stories.

As a bonus, I’ll also show you how to transform the conventional thank-you note into a powerful job-winning tool all by itself. That way, you’ll have another opportunity to stand out from the crowd.

Call today to put my resume writing services to work for you.