Resume Writing Questions
Resume Distribution Questions
What should a resume do for me?
All job candidates should have a resume to represent
themselves to a potential employer in order to compete in
today's highly competitive job market. A resume should outline the
specific skills, experiences, and accomplishments that support your current employment
objective or career goal. In today's job market, your statistical odds of being
considered for an attractive job are extremely low especially since an average job opening
typically receives 200+ responses and an attractive job opening may receive a thousand.
If you want to be among those who are considered for the position you're seeking,
you must have an attractive, properly formatted and well written resume that will sell you
to the potential employer.
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In what ways does an employer use a resume?
Employers use resumes to identify which candidate(s) will meet
or fill their current needs. The process of elimination is often
used since, as mentioned above, there are numerous responses received for a typical job
opening. Employers are very busy sorting through all these responses and will
typically spend on average 15 to 20 seconds glancing over or scanning resumes to quickly
decide which ones to eliminate and which ones to consider. Therefore, it is critical
that the top third of your resume is hard hitting and immediately captures the attention
of the potential employer, otherwise your resume will wind up in the pile of trash, not
making the first cut. If your resume does make it into the pile for consideration,
then it will be read in great detail. Still again, the employer is still looking for
a reason to eliminate you, so the overall strength of your resume is very important in
this second stage of screening. If your presentation is weak and lacks the crucial
information the employer is looking for, you will not make it to the final selection and
be called in for an interview.
If you have survived the elimination process and have been called in for an interview,
your resume then becomes the basis for your interview and is used as an outline to discuss
how you may fill the company's needs. If you have a succinct, yet powerfully written
marketing document to help represent you, you may very well get that job!
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I have my own computer, and a resume book, should I prepare my
own resume?
While there are many do-it-yourself books out there on writing
resumes, the truth is that if you do your own, your resume is being prepared by an
amateur. You can't just fill in the blanks, so to speak, from a book with your own
information. You need to know how to include the important selling points in your
background into your resume and leave out unnecessary details. In other words, you have to
paint the picture you want the employer to see. We know how to pull from you important
background information, talents and accomplishments you have perhaps forgotten about or
never thought was important, and sift through these to find your strongest points to
present to the employer. You want to let the employer know why you are
the best candidate for the position and what you have to offer their company versus
someone else who can carry out the same responsibilities. And unless you can
effectively write a resume that will bring this information across in an effective manner,
you should hire a professional resume company like Aicron Career Services to handle this
daunting task. Does it make sense to spend four or more years and thousands of
dollars earning a college degree and then market that investment to employers with a
do-it-yourself resume? Or to have solid career credentials and a salary level of
$30,000, $60, 000, or $100,000...and use a less than professional resume writer to
represent you? At Aicron Career Services we are able to look at your strengths and
weaknesses objectively and are able to communicate them clearly and succinctly to
potential employers in the best manner possible, giving you the opportunity to make your
best impression.
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What is a Certified Professional Resume Writer?
A Certified Professional Resume Writer like Rosa St.Julian of Aicron
Career Services is an individual resume writer who has met the highest standards of their
profession. Being certified acknowledges that you are among the best and most
qualified at what you do. It assures you, the public, that in choosing a CPRW, you
have the benefit of a true professional in the resume field. Someone who is
committed to staying abreast of current trends in the employment industry and is dedicated
to marketing their client in the most effective ways possible. To obtain the
certification credential, an individual resume writer has to successfully complete a
rigorous exam administered by the Certification Committee of the Professional Association
of Resume Writers. The CPRW designation establishes that a resume writer has met industry
standards for meeting client strategic goals and has mastered the craft of resume
preparation, using the most current information and techniques.
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What is the Professional Association of Resume Writers?
PARW, the Professional Association of Resume Writers is the resume
industry's professional association. Aicron Career Services is an active member of
PARW, and subscribes to it's code of business ethics. A PARW member in good standing
will:
1. Professionally provide clients with products and services that will enhance their
abilities to achieve their goals and objectives regardless of race, color, creed,
religion, national origin, sex, age level or income, or physical handicap.
2. Be sensitive to client needs and compassionate in providing advice, products, and
services in meeting the client's specific career goals.
3. Deliver to the client what was promised and be truthful in guiding, advising, and
counseling clients in all aspects of the resume writing/employment industry.
4. Maintain strict confidentiality with every client, revealing information only upon
written authorization by the client.
5. Keep current of new trends, formats, writing styles, and resume/employment
presentations to best serve his/her client's through the PARW newsletter and other
publications or sources.
6. Stay abreast of market and hiring trends that will affect his/her clientele. By
staying current, PARW members will provide up-to-date advice, counsel, products, and
services to better meet client's career objectives.
7. Comply with all legal obligations in providing professional services.
8. Be aware that contact with the public as a PARW member promotes the organization and
reflects on the resume writing/consulting service as an industry.
9. Be responsible to the community and be a contributing part of this environment through
participation in community activities, and will offer professional advice and information
pertaining to the resume writing/employment field.
10. Emphasize the professional spirit of the organization by encouraging and promoting
good relations among members.
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Are your services expensive?
That really depends on what is "expensive" to you. How
serious are you about your job search? Let's do a little arithmetic. Taking the
profile of a 35 year old person earning about $35,000 per year. Multiply that times
30 years (which is about how long you will work before retirement) how much is that?
It's exactly $1,050,000. That is the investment you will realize over the next 30
years, even if you don't increase your income. Are you willing to jeopardize that
kind of investment with the cheapest resume service you can find, just to save a couple
hundred dollars? If price rather than quality is your only consideration, why throw away
your money just to say you have a resume when you can just do it yourself? Our prices may
seem expensive but it's really not when you consider the results you will obtain with our
services. When you hire Aicron Career & Resume Services to prepare a professional
marketing document for you, you are making a smart investment in your future. You are
saying, I am serious about my career and I want the best. Our resumes WILL help you
land the job you want. After all, you get what you pay for. Why not GET the job
you want!
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What are the benefits of using your professional
service?
By using Aicron Career Service you will have the confidence in knowing
you have hired a Certified Professional Resume Writer who cares about your success in the
job market and will do whatever it takes to help you meet your goals. Our clients
satisfaction is our #1 priority. You're getting the benefit of an expert who writes
resumes everyday, is experienced with working with individuals in a variety of fields, and
who knows how to present a client's background and credentials to their best advantage.
For example, there are three standard resume formats: The Chronological,
Functional, and Modified (which is a combination of Chronological and
Functional). Deciding which format will best present your career history is a
critical strategic decision before the first word is ever written on paper. This is
one of the many effective strategies we will implement to best present our clients to
companies and help them obtain the job they want.
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How can I get started with my resume?
To get started simply go to our order page, fill out the form and select
the service(s) you are interested in receiving. You may then fax this form with your
signature and payment information to 1-281-894-6214 at any time. We must have your
signature and that of the cardholder (if you are a student using your parent's credit
card) before we can process your order. After we have received your request we will
contact you within 1-2 business days, so please be sure to give us a contact number and
let us know the best time to reach you. If you prefer, you may call us at
1-281-807-3366 9-6 M-F central standard time zone. After we have discussed your needs
fully via a telephone consultation and received and processed your order, we will
have a draft ready for your approval within 1-3 business days (depending on
project). We can submit the draft to you via fax or email which will allow you to
review the document before final revisions are completed. Upon your approval, after
you are completely satisfied with the draft we will send your documents to you whichever
way you prefer- fax, email, or postal mail. We guarantee 100% satisfaction with our
work and will continue working until you are completely happy with the results. The entire
process generally takes 1-5 business days to complete.
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What other services would help me land the job I want?
We provide a full range of resume and employment search
services including resume distribution services which will give you an opportunity to post
your resume to over 1500 databases and banks where employers search for potential
candidates for hiring. This is a very effective tool to utilize in your job search
campaign and will give you maximum exposure and visibility. In effect, you're
letting the employers come to you! Another strategy to utilize is our targeted
postal mailings. We can put together a list of recruiters and employers according to your
specifications and send your resumes and cover letters to them via postal mail. If
you know what type of job you want, but really don't have the time to search for them
yourself, we can handle this for you. Just tell us the type of job you'd prefer,
geographic location and salary desired and we'll print out a list of what we find. For
more information on these or any other services please see our services page.
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Why should I consider resume
distribution services?
Because resumes distributed to the right prospects often means
less time wasted searching for the ideal job! Generally the more exposure you
generate, the more phone calls you will receive. By using our distribution services
you will be able to maximize your visibility in the shortest amount of time.
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Where do you distribute resumes?
Your resume can be distributed
via the internet to over 1500 employers and recruiters
searching for qualified candidates to fill their positions or to our database resource
consisting of venture capitalists, US companies, growth companies, top foreign companies,
and executive recruiters.
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What kind of results can I expect?
Generally the results are
based on the quality and strength of your resume presentation but clients have reported
receiving responses to their resumes within hours of posting via the internet.
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How is your database maintained?
Our databases are critiqued and kept current and new points of
distribution are constantly being added. Our targeted lists are also critiqued and
kept up to date to minimize returns and provide key information.
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