Resume Writing Services

We’re all anonymous, except to a group of humans. In a world of 6 billion people, nothing could be closer to the truth. The average human being has a social circle of roughly 30 (including family), an acquaintance circle of maybe another 50 or so, a work circle, and then online “friends.” More out-going, or famous people obviously know more people (or more people know of them). But in the grand scheme of things, there’s not a lot of those. 

So, in a world where you’re effectively anonymous to the vast majority of people, how do you present yourself? Well, a resume is one way. The resume, as a method of succinctly describing your professional and educational achievements, has evolved considerably over time. It initially began in a long-form version, addressing in painstaking detail all of the things one has accomplished and is planning to accomplish moving forward. This became shorter over time, mainly due to demands from human resource departments. They were no longer interested in reading extensive biographies and more focused on the areas and skills a potential employee could add to the company. 

As the industry developed, the art of writing a resume emerged as a skill onto itself. Writing about oneself is not easy. With a resume writing service, a stranger, with only your past either on paper in a rough format or delivered via the phone, can effectively write something that is many times better than we could do on our own. A quick Google search will reveal pages upon pages of resume writing services, but we’re going to go through a couple of the more established entities in the resume game. 

TopResume is consistently ranked as the “best value” in terms of receiving a quality resume for a competitive price. Speaking of cost, you will see quotes anywhere from $75 to $500 for a resume. TopResume counts on a network of roughly 1,000 writers who have first-hand experience in 65 plus industries. As a client, you begin with a questionnaire about professional and personal background information, and you can then choose up to three writing packages. The top-tier package provides a resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profile. 

A knock on some resume writing services is the deliverable can be very “cookie-cutter” in its feel, as if your resume was simply 1 in 1,000 that the service wrote that day. Let’s Eat Grandma is a more hands-on service, excellent for those that have a resume in place but want to do some major tweaks. Every package Let’s Eat Grandma offers comes with a 30-minute phone consultation. Oh, and the name. This is a grammar joke. If you say, “let’s eat grandma,” and don’t include a comma after “eat,” then it sounds as if everyone wants to eat grandma instead of announcing to grandma that it’s time to eat. See the importance of commas! 

And lastly, iHire. Many resume services will provide the physical documents you need to apply to a job, but iHire takes it a step further with practical career advice. In conjunction with their expert writers, iHire provides clients with information on which areas within a particular industry an applicant might have a better possibility of securing an interview and excelling in a job. This is critical these days as work is becoming more in more specialized, so capitalizing on a skill and marketing oneself appropriately is a value-added. 

Looking for a job can be a drag. But with a great resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profile, you can turn that search around and have employers begging to get you into an interview. That sounds much more palatable, wouldn’t you agree?