Thursday, December 15, 2011

Are You Running on Resume Advice Overload?

If you spend more than 15 minutes online searching on “resumes” (or, more properly, “résumés”), you will quickly find yourself swimming in a bottomless sea of advice. It’s everywhere, and everyone seems to have their take on just what it means to write a successful resume these days.


And if that isn’t bad enough, for every piece of advice, there is a resume writer out there claiming to be the best choice for you.

Without a doubt, deciding which resume service to use can be a daunting task, ESPECIALLY if you are a technical candidate. There’s so much high-frequency chatter from those who claim they can produce a quality IT, engineering, manufacturing, or other technical-based resume, but when you probe a bit, you find that it is all just noise and that they don’t really have a clue about how to market you, much less about what you do.
And to top it all off, they give you the same advice they would give someone in a nontechnical field.

Here at IT Tech Exec, we are proud of the quality work that we do, and we want all of our customers to understand the type of resumes that we produce. It’s not about creating a graphic design spectacle or even a campaign poster (“Pick me! Pick me!”); our basic philosophy is simple: 

We give your target audience what they want.

The reason so many people struggle with writing a resume is that they are trying to impress themselves and not their audience. In any kind of writing, knowing your audience is vital, what they want to see, what they want to hear, and what they want to know. And more often than not, what impresses you about you is not always the same thing as what impresses them about you.

That is where our value as resume writers comes in. Let us serve as that objective voice that can guide you regarding what your audience wants to get from your resume.

To help you get a solid understanding of the documents we produce, we have provided three sample resumes here. They cover different types of technical arenas.

It’s important to understand, however, that every resume we create is unique and markets you. To find out more about our services, visit us at http://www.ittechexec.com

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