How to Get Started, Prices, Scope of Services

Résumé Writing, Cover Letters, Updates

$99 per hour includes consultation, writing, layout to fit our computer, and e-mail delivery as a Microsoft Word 2002, 97/98, 6.0/95, or 5.1 (Mac), or RTF file. New résumés have a one-hour minimum charge; minimum on updates (of résumés we've written) and cover letters is $35. Click here to begin your new résumé. You'll get a blank e-message with the subject "ResumeOrder." Include your draft or rough notes as a Microsoft Word file or RTF file. If you can't attach a file, you may also paste it into an e-mail message if you put two carriage returns between paragraphs. Please include a credit card number and expiration date.

NOTE: If you can come to our Hadley, Massachusetts office, we offer a discounted rate of $90 per hour (during normal business hours), including a printed, rather than e-mailed, copy. You save mailing costs, too. Please call 413-586-2388 (M-F, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.) to schedule an in-person appointment.

Résumé Critique

We offer this service at a cost of just $50 (up to two pages; additional pages, $25 each), and that fee is applicable toward a full consultation. Click here to begin your critique. You'll get a blank e-message with the subject "ResumeCritque." Include your resume as a Microsoft Word file or RTF file. Please include a credit card number and expiration date.

Interview Coaching/Role Plays, Career Counseling

$99 per hour, by arrangement, half-hour minimum. $90 per hour if you come to our Hadley, Massachusetts office (during normal business hours).

Copies/Delivery

E-mail or fax (if e-mail is not technically possible) to you is included in the price if we're working remotely. Note that your e-mail document will be formated for OUR computer, and may need fonts, line breaks, and page breaks adjusted. Postal mail is at cost, with a $2 minimum. Disk copies are $10 plus mailing costs. Paper copies range from 36 to 75 cents per copy, plus mailing, depending on paper quality and number of copies

What to Include

An old résumé, rough notes (at least a work history) or draft, notes on the types of jobs you're seeking, job descriptions, cover letters, letters of reference, notes on anything special you've accomplished, and anything else that will help us show you off in the best possible light.