Get Your COVID-Free Professional Résumé, Virtually or In-Person, WHILE YOU WAIT. Compete Effectively in a Changing World with a Résumé Custom-Written to Highlight YOUR Strengths and Interests.

Today more than ever, as thousands of businesses were forced to close without warning, the competition for good jobs is fierce. Everybody needs a current professional résumé and cover letter, targeted to the job you want—a résumé that highlights your skills, tilts toward your interests, and de-emphasizes any weak points. A résumé that not only speaks directly to the concerns of potential employers, but also makes you feel great about yourself.

Unfortunately, most people hate to write them. Worse, most self-written résumé drafts suffer from flaws that may not be obvious to you, but are causing HR staff and hiring committees to bypass you.

Fortunately, you can get expert yet affordable help, right here. We love to write all the documents for your job search. We take it as a personal challenge to make you look as good as possible for the specific types of jobs you're applying for. And as a small mom-and-pop firm in business since 1981, we give you the personal service, the expertise, and the custom-written job-search documents you deserve. Come to us for:

  • Résumés
  • Cover letters
  • Scripts for 1- to 2-minute individualized video cover letters
  • LinkedIn profiles
  • Job-board profiles (for sites like Monster.com, Indeed.com, etc.)

    We've been doing while-you-wait résumés since 1984. If you're vaccinated (as we are), you can choose an in-person appointment in our Hadley, Massachusetts office or a Zoom appointment from anywhere in the world. If you're not vaccinated, we're happy to take care of you over Zoom even if you are local. Don't suffer and struggle without a professional résumé. You can still harness our professional expertise to write a résumé and other documents while you wait. And for the first time, you can do it from the comfort of your own home! We write your résumé over Zoom. No Coronavirus exposure risk!

    It's our joy to help you with anything from a little tweak to turning a jumbled mess of rough notes into a one- or two-page marketing document that highlights your strengths, minimizes your weaknesses, and points your career right where you'd like to go. If you have a specfic job in mind, we can also write you a brief cover letter, focused specifically on that job. Like our résumés, our cover letters are designed to open the door to interviews.

    How It Works

  • Book an appointment by calling 413-586-2388 (8 a.m. to 10p.m. US Eastern Time) or using our online scheduler. We'll confirm or adjust the appointment and send you the link for your session
  • If you don't find a time slot you like, give us a call. We can usually arrange an appointment that'll work for you.
  • If you have an old résumé, draft, or rough notes, please send it ahead as a Microsoft Word (preferred), RTF, or PDF file. That will help us get a running start so your session is fast and efficient.
  • During the session, you'll be watching your documents take shape on your computer screen. When we're done, you'll supply payment information. If the résumé takes two hours or less—as most of them do—the charge will be just $199. If it goes longer, it will be $100 per hour for the actual time used. Cover letters are $100 per hour with a $50 minimum. Critiques are $50 for up to two pages, $25 per additional page--and that entire fee is applied to your résumé writing session if you choose to have us redo your résumé.
  • Once we're both happy with the work, we charge your card or Paypal/Venmo account and then send you your résumé in both Word and PDF formats, any other documents we've created, and the recording of the Zoom call.

    • Having the résumé is so helpful in so many ways; not the least of which is the confidence it gives me. Specifically, working with you that morning helped me to see my career history as an [positive] attribute. With that perception, no surprise, I'm being recruited by the top 4 real estate brokerage companies in the city. TRUE!

    Elizabeth Marshall
    New York, NY

    You need the best personal marketing documents, including résumés, cover letters, and other materials, to help you get interviews for the exact types of jobs you are looking for. And we'll write them for you.

    Why a Résumé Must be a MARKETING Tool

    When you apply for a job, your résumé and cover letter are the employer's first introduction to you. If they don't catch the reader's interest, you'll never get a shot at impressing the employer any other way.

    Employers may receive hundreds of applications for a good job opening. When they're flipping through a three-inch stack of résumés, they'll be looking for reasons to say no. And if they're entering keywords in an HR database, they will only even see your submission if your résumé has the right keywords.

    Your résumé has only a few seconds to do its job: to pull the reader in with a concise, well-written, grammatical summary of your strengths, accomplishments, reliability, and your "rightness" for the job.

    A simple chronological presentation of your history, warts and all, isn't going to do the trick. Plodding language, the wrong format, leaving out key information—or including the wrong information—will all get you moved to the "no, but thanks anyway" pile.

    But if a résumé professional creates your résumé, it will...
    • Show off your best attributes
    • Provide the key information in a readable, approachable format
    • Make the most important points jump out at the reader
    • Separate your résumé from the "slush pile" and be put in the much smaller "read carefully and maybe call for an interview" pile

    Since every human being is different, with different experience, strengths, likes and dislikes, and desires, every résumé we write is unique. You and a co-worker who does the same job as you could each approach us for a résumé, and the résumés would be different, because your life history and your career path will be different.

    You should be able to afford a professional résumé, so we keep our expenses low and pass the savings on to you. Many of our competitors charge three, five, or ten times as much as we do—but because our process is better and we're not greedy, we're content to charge a fair but not outrageous price. Please click here for current pricing information.

    I got a job as an interior design and art assistant for a property management firm in NYC, and I can't tell you how psyched I am. Most importantly, during my search a recruiter once told me that he had never seen a résumé such as mine (despite seeing 300 résumés per day) in which there existed not one thing he felt he needed to change... so thanks for helping me build what he described as a "flawless" résumé! Hope all is well with you and yours.

    --Lilia Levine
    New York, NY

    Good Morning Shel,

    Just to let you know. It's only been a couple of days, but the new résumé has already provided more response than the old one ever did.

    The response keeps coming in. Had a phone interview yesterday for a position in Atlanta that I'm well qualified for.

    I cannot begin to thank you enough.

    Nice work!

    Christopher Dubea
    Industrial Project Manager
    Slidell, LA

    I Know How to Use A Computer and I'm Really Good with Microsoft Word...Can't I Just Write My Own Résumé?

    You can... But you're probably NOT doing yourself a favor! There is so much specialized knowledge in writing a résumé that it takes years to understand how to present yourself in the most favorable light.

    The résumé that we can put together for you in a couple of hours is almost certain to be better than the one you might spend weeks struggling to write! (Still, if you insist, click here for some tips on writing your own.)

    It's not just a matter of making it look pretty on a page (which we do, of course). It's not even a question of good writing skills. It's a combination of knowing:

  • What employers look for
  • How to stress your best selling points while minimizing red flags
  • The perfect language to express your history, goals, and achievements
  • And, yes, how to format the page for maximum visual impact without sacrificing legibility

    I think I am lucky to know you. The résumé is exactly what I hoped for. Your experience/knowledge created a professional "sales" instrument. I now will feel confident sending it out.

    Wendy Gotesman, Equipment Management Coordinator, Rochester, NY

    In short, a résumé has to be a marketing document. That's even professional journalists—people who are extremely computer-literate and good with words—hire us to write their résumés. We've also created résumés for teachers, nurses, students, retail managers, executive vice presidents, computer wizards, office workers, and everyone else you can think of.

    How long have you been frustrated with a résumé that isn't doing the job? Within a few days, you can have a résumé you'll submit with pride! Click here to learn more about how we work.

    Though I've helped many people compose their own résumés, never have I accomplished the task so easily and with such concentrated speed. Equally important, of course, was the tremendous ego lift your work has provided for me. I have a résumé I can present with dignity, and for this I am very grateful.

    Bertha Losez, Leeds, MA

    Click here to book your appointment online, or call 413.586.2388 (8 a.m. to 10 p.m. US Eastern Time), and get started on the road to a better career!

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