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Cover Letters

Cover letters are your introduction to the reader. They summarize who you are and what you can do for the company.

We create a customized cover letter for you to showcase your strengths and experience to the reader. The best part is, these cover letters are completely reusable! We carefully craft the important writing in the body of the letter. We sell your strengths and your accomplishments in a professional, yet compelling way.

The contact information of the reader—the part of the letter that change each time you send off a new resume: the company address, the name of the position, how you heard of the position, etc.—are left in a convenient template format for you to fill in as needed. The cover letters we write are so versatile, you may never need a new cover letter again! You can simply use ours over and over for years!

Professional Resumes

The fact that you are looking at professional resume writing services tells us that you aren’t happy with what you have already. Probably sent your resume out to 10-20 places with no response? Or not the right responses? You are stressed and tired of trying to do this yourself, right? You look at your resume and don’t know what else you could do to it to get it to work?

Our resume get you noticed. Plain and simple. We use keywords and action phrases that articulate your message and lets the reader know what you excel at, what you specialize in and how you can do this for them. Our writers have been trained in creating strategic formatting that gets your resume noticed. We leave the readers excited to interview you. Isn’t that the point of a professionally written resume?

Our professional resume is a one-of-a-kind comprehensive document based on your unique education, training, achievements, past experience, and credentials that pulls everything together in one high-quality, appealing format. Forget “cookie-cutter” template resumes like most resume companies use, we prepare your unique resume from scratch!

Begin a collaborative relationship with your professional resume writer. Selected for expertise in branding, strategy and format, our hand-picked group of certified resume writers will work one-on-one with you until all the information needed to write a dynamic resume is in our hands. From there, we will work our magic until the perfect resume is created. Just for you.

PDF Resumes

A version of your resume in PDF takes the worry out of attaching your resume to an e-mail and having it become “unformatted” during delivery! If you are on a Mac and the receiver is using a PC, there may be issues during delivery.

Avoid this hassle altogether by attaching a PDF version to the email. The reader will open a version of your resume as it was intended to look.

It can be “locked” so no one else can copy the information on it. A good idea!

Thank You Letters

Never underestimate the power of a Thank You letter. This is the best way to stand out from the hoards of candidates the HR person saw that same day/week. In fact, the hiring managers and recruiters we’ve talked to say if choosing between two similar candidates, they almost always hire the candidate that sent the thank you letter.

We offer a thank you letter template to assist you in the letter writing process. It matches the rest of your documents and it offers suggestions to help you think of what to write. Customize it for each interview. Remember, if you talked about something non-work related (a recent sporting event, for example), you may want to mention it in the letter as it will help the employer remember you!

ASCII Format

The “ASCII” (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) or “.txt” version of your resume is an electronic version suitable for submission via email or for pasting into online resume bank submission forms (jobs.com, monster.com, etc). It is unformatted and used for this purpose.

It’s also good when working with recruiters. Most recruiters like a plainer version of your resume for their resume keyword scanning machines or OCR machines.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) was developed in the 70’s with the purpose of creating a machine to help the visually impaired read printed materials. It has since become a mainstay of business.

With OCR, it’s a computer, not a person that will be scanning your resume for appropriate content. Since machines are not impressed by font styles and other formatting enhancements, content and keywords are important, as is the presentation of your document in a scanner-friendly manner.