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High Impact Resumes, we create powerful resumes that
position our clients to win job interviews and top salaries
in today's competitive job market. Over
the last 25 years, we have worked with over 9,000 clients
in a wide range of occupations, including sales, IT,
accounting, construction, oil & gas, trades and
management. Our clients include everyone from new university/college
grads to top executives.
If
you are looking for a promotion or are considering making
the move to another organization, it's probably to your
advantage to have the best possible resume you can afford...especially
since many employers are receiving hundreds and sometimes
thousands of resumes for every position advertised.
Did
you know that 90% of all resumes are screened out in
the first 30 seconds?
Ask
any recruiter, and they'll tell you that if they can't
find the experience and skills they're looking for immediately,
you've probably lost their interest. I know.
My name is Julie Marseu and I worked as a recruiter
for 7 years, hiring hundreds of positions for both private
and public sector organizations.
This
is what I've noticed. Qualified people with
poor or average resumes are often bypassed in favor
of less qualified applicants with more powerful resumes.
Why does this happen? Because the average resume doesn't
communicate key achievements and skills effectively,
if at all. Consequently, they fail to impress and end
up in the "Not Suitable" pile.
For
example, one of my clients (a top sales performer) came
to me because he had sent out dozens of resumes and
couldn't understand why he had gotten very little response
from prospective employers, and none from any employment
agencies. He had this job description on his self-written
resume: "Responsible for sales, customer service
and terrritory management." He didn't bother to
list any achievements because he didn't want to be perceived
as bragging. During our consultation, I asked him some
very pointed questions, which revealed the following:
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He had established and built a new territory from
$0 to $5 million in annual sales within
3 years of joining the company.
- He
currently ranked #1 in sales volume in the entire
company, outperforming 347 other sales professionals
across the country.
- He
had played a key role in taking his branch from #12
to #2 nationally, outperforming branches in much
larger cities.
Now
imagine the impact of this new information on recruiters
and potential employers. If you think he immediately
became a hot commodity, you're right. In fact, he had
2 interviews lined up within hours of receiving his
new High Impact Resume, and 3 more within the next 48
hours. Two of these were with recruiters who had previously
not even responded to his application. Can you imagine
how thrilled he was? And how much better he felt about
himself?
Unfortunately,
we see this type of thing all the time. The fact
is that many self-written and low-cost "professional"
resumes cannot possibly compete in today's competitive
job market because they are missing the most important
content.
The
good news is that if your resume is not getting you
the interviews you deserve, you can probably do better.
All you need is a high impact resume.
As
the President and Executive Resume Writer at High Impact
Resumes, I take pride in producing powerful resumes
that position my clients to win. If your resume is not
doing that for you, maybe it's time to do something
about it.
Why
not get the ball rolling today?
For
more information on our
professional resume writing services,
please call us at:
Edmonton:
(780) 488-1812
Calgary: (403) 264-1812
Toll free: 1 (888) 488-1812
or
email your resume for a
FREE RESUME EVALUATION to:
julie@highimpactresumes.com
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