A recent direct message with a Twitter friend talked about an unemployed friend, out of work since June. Her friend was resistant to hiring a professional because of the cost.
Even a basic package would give her friend a step up. Then I said, she’s really shooting herself in the foot if she is afraid to invest in career marketing professionals.
Qualified professionals are available. You’ve heard me mention Career Director’s International, Career Management Alliance, Professional Association of Resume Writers and Career Coaches.
You can select a talented career marketing professional who can cut short a job search by creating top shelf resumes and cover letters or coaching you through today’s maze of online applications, hidden job markets, and networking strategies.
My friend and colleague, Dawn Bugni, has this illustration on her services page for The Write Solution.
Why hire a professional resume writer?
Some job seekers underestimate the value of a professionally crafted resume and look at it as only a “piece of paper.” However — think about this: A $1 bill and a $1000 bill are “just paper” too. But, like a resume, their value is determined by what is printed on that paper!
Invest in your future. Invest in yourself.
Take a look at what a job search can cost:
- If you want a $20,000 salary, your weekly salary is $384.61 and an 18 week job hunt will cost you $6,992.98.
- If you want a $50,000 salary, your weekly salary is $961.54 and an 18 week job hunt costs you $17,307.69.
- If you want a $100,000 salary, your weekly salary is $1,923.08 and an 18 week job hunt costs you $34,615.38
Job seekers who are unemployed for a long period of time and think that they can’t afford a professional are the ones who need us the most. We can shorten your search, teach you new strategies and overall just be your partner in the search.
Here’s an example of how it helps to have us work with you. A client sent this e-mail this morning. She is a client I worked with for more than 15 years as she continued to move upward in the health care industry and we just did a major update when she disconnected from her employer after 29 years, “Hi Julie, Just wanted to tell you I have a job interview scheduled in January. SS said on the phone – “I’d like to compliment you on your resume – it was very well done”. I wanted to pass that on to you – you deserve all the credit. Thanks, J”
All the career industry wants to do is help you get back to work. The misconception that we thrive in times like these is a myth. We do best in a good economy because clients invest in their careers.
However, in a poor economy, all of us still have mortgages, car payments, utility bills, as well as the investment we all put into career industry organization memberships and continuing education so that we can be the source you trust. And of course, we all need to eat too.
Let’s work together. If you don’t shoot yourself in the foot by ignoring the people who care about you and want to help, then we can get you back to work and we all win. Give us the chance to help us help you!
Again, thoughts? Talk to me… I talk back!
If it was possible, I would refer your services to all of the 357 employees including Jennifer Moore who were laid off from Kolbe. There are jobs out there just as there were in the 1930s. It is a matter of matching the person and their skills to the job.
Kolbe is in a part of the economy that has been severely hit by this recession. The recovery might come this spring, but it may not be strong enough for the window and door industry or anything dealing with housing construction to rebound.
Thanks, Andy! Feel free to share my name. There will be some that hold on and wait for spring and others that would just like to get a jump on things. The investment of working with a professional from the career industry pays off in less time looking.