What is a "professional resume writer"?
A professional résumé writer is someone who will take all of your work experience and put it into a highly marketable brochure, if you will, for you. Your résumé needs to be a marketing piece, and someone who is a good résumé writer will know how to strategise your background, your skills, your volunteer experience, your education, and everything else that you've done, and put it into a highly marketable piece that is going to promote you, and also help you stand out from the competition. Finding a good résumé writer can be tough, I'll be honest with you, because a lot of résumé writers buy into the antiquated idea that you have to keep your résumé at one or two pages. That is bunk. Hear me now, believe me later, your résumé needs to be as long as it needs to be in order to tell your entire story. So, when you're looking for a résumé writer, ask them if they have a number of different types of formats that they use, or if they kind of put everybody into the one-size-fits-all résumé. I would recommend that you stay away from those types or résumé writers and get with someone who really understands what the employment process is all about and who knows how to strategise. That's the most important part.
