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Will a hiring authority be able
to decide from looking at your executive resume for 10 seconds
that you should be called for an interview? |
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Does your executive resume look
"expensive" and distinctive, in keeping with your
career and salary objectives? |
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Do you use the keywords that
will help ensure that your information technology resume will
be retrieved in an electronic search? |
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Does your information technology
resume adequately convey the importance and significance of
your accomplishments? |
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Have you included the technology,
business, and relationship-building skillsets and achievements
employers want to see? |
If you
answered Yes! to any of these, read further...
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Pass the 10-second test –
Studies show that each Information Technology resume gets
only a glance from hiring authorities. Our Yes! Resumes
help you get beyond the initial cuts to the interview stage.
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Present you as an accomplished, highly professional
applicant who draws a high salary - Think of what you like
your lawyer's office to look like - situated in dusty rooms
above a package store or in a prime location with tasteful appointments?
Your executive resume will not be a mass-produced product! |
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Contain industry-specific keywords
and navigate the electronic job search environment successfully
– Specific keyword terms optimize the chances that
your Information Technology resume will be retrieved in a search;
and the correct format is designed to be compatible with applicant
tracking technologies. |
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Send a clear message about what
you can do for a potential employer and showcase the key contributions
you have made in your career to date – We formulate
powerful value messages and success stories that "pre-sell"
you to the hiring authority. |
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Address
the critical skills, experience, and attributes that technology
employers are interested in - IT manager resumes, IT executive
resumes, and executive resumes for high-tech leaders are different
from other resumes. Yours "will speak the language"
and give the reader a high comfort level with your candidacy. |
Have
you heard colleagues say that this is the first time they have ever
had to search for a job? That getting their next position was always
easy before? The environment for senior-level executive transitioning
in the tech sectors has changed and become much more competitive.
Setting yourself apart with a distinctive package of value-added
career documents including a superior executive resume can give
you a significant edge. Building and articulating your brand and
presenting on-brand, high-end marketing materials will distinguish
you from your competition and increase your chances for an interview.Your
executive resume will aslo enable you during interviews and salary
negotiations to monetize your contributions in support of higher
negotiated compensation.
Are you
wondering if you can get the same results with a less expensive
executive resume? Clients who choose to work with us do this cost/benefit
analysis: they bet that they will get higher quality responses in
a shorter period of time with a Yes! Resume™ Information Technology
resume. They know that their investment in a new Yes! Resume™
can be recouped in a week's time or less by landing their position
(a lot) faster.
They
realize that for every week they are without a job that they love,
they are, in fact, losing salary each week. Someone earning $60,000
per year is losing $1200 each week they are unemployed. For persons
earning $100,000, the number is $2000 per week. With a $150,000
salary, the loss in terms of unearned income is $3000 a week.
Our clients
decide that A Resume For Today can help stop that week-over-week
financial drain. Of course there is no certainty about
how quickly they will get their next job using a Yes! Resume™.
The intensity and type of job search they conduct will have a big
effect (and we can help with that). But anecdotal evidence over
and over again supports the fact that hiring authorities are impressed
with our executive resumes and give our clients priority for interviews.
If you
go the lower-end route of using a factory-produced executive resume
or a do-it-yourself method, and you land your next position 8 months
later, you have lost both a lot of money and some desirable job
opportunities (opportunity cost). Whether you decide to work with
A Resume For Today or one of the handful of other high-end firms
in the country for Information Technology executives, you will be
selecting a low-risk path with value-added benefits in terms of
helping your career prosper going forward.
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Personal Brand / Executive Brand Development. Exploration
of your brand as it is relevant to your target market. Process results
in a Brand Summary / Profile that will capture your niche, your
unique promise of value, and your value-adds for a 10-second read.
This statement leads off your executive resume and serves as the
key communication for you to use when talking to target companies
and networking contacts and in developing your elevator pitch.
Note:
Identifying and articulating your brand ensures clarity and consistency
of messaging throughout your marketing presentation. The personal
brand emerges from our Dig-for-Gold Questions and from the phone
interview. It is then incorporated into all the materials we
produce.. We recommend that the brand also be integrated with all
aspects of your career communications, including email signature,
correspondence, voicemail messages, etc. Coaching is available if
you need support in building your personal brand consistently throughout
your job search.
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Brand-driven Executive Resume. Process includes: personal
brand development, Dig-for-Gold Questions delivered by email; intensive
phone consultation; Jean Cummings? personal branding consultation,
career marketing and writing expertise; a first draft emailed as
a Word attachment; two rounds of edits/corrections, and delivery
of the final Information Technology resume as a Word attachment.
Investment
in Personal Brand Statement & Brand-Driven Executive Resume:
$1750.00
Fees dependent on
completion of Phase 1. These materials are adaptable to multiple
media and marketing channels: person-to-person networking, website,
blog, postings on company websites or job boards, direct mail, email,
voicemail message, etc.
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Cover Letter Suite. Targeting three different audiences:
recruiters; specific companies and positions; networking contacts.
Delivered as a Word attachment to your email. $450
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Brand-driven Career Biography. To introduce you in narrative
form to contacts old and new. $550.00
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Critical Project Leadership Initiatives. +/-3 single-page,
in-depth project profiles demonstrating, showcasing, and reinforcing
your executive brand. $450.00
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Cover Letter Suite. Targeting three different audiences:
recruiters; specific companies and positions; networking contacts.
Delivered as a Word attachment to your email. $450
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Reference & Testimonial Dossier. $75.00
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Scientific and/or Technical Skills Addendum. With
explicit description of level of proficiency and experience. $75.00
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Patents, Publications, Presentations, and Awards Addendum.
$75.00
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Personal Branding.
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Online Identity Management.
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10 Point Job Search Roadmap. Includes a 50-minute
coaching session. $375.00
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Coaching on Marketing Strategies and Progress. One-half
hour 3 times a month. $350.00/month for 3 months
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Distribution of Resume to Executive Recruiters, Company
CEOs and/or Venture Capital Firms. Database tailored to
position, level, industry sector, and geographical area. $89.00+
(See options at left)
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Interview Coaching. 2 hours. Practice communicating
your value proposition and leave-behind message, engaging in the
give-and-take of consultative meetings, setting a plan for next
steps, and closing the sale. $375.00
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