FREE - Ask These 10 Questions Before You Hire a Resume Service
Here are 10 key questions to ask when you are selecting a Resume Service to write or revise your resume:
1. What Exactly is Included Your Prices?
Ask Resume Services what they include in their prices? Are they giving you everything that you need to apply for jobs or do you have to pay extra for crucial marketing items such as a cover letter? In order to get interviews in today’s ultra-competitive job market, you must have a resume, cover letter and supporting documents that are perfectly tailored to your background, your skill set, your job goals and the specific job for which you are applying. Do your research, and you will see that reputable firms charge several hundred dollars for a quality resume package that includes all of the documents you need.
AlphaDog Resume packages are all-inclusive and simple. You get a great resume, cover letter, thank you letter, follow-up letter, telephone consultation and more all for a reasonable set price. If you want less than the full package, we also offer a comprehensive menu of a la carte products and services that can save you even more money, including a Guaranteed Resume for just $89.
2. Are the Guarantees that You Offer Worth Anything?
Ask Resume Services about what, if any, guarantees they offer. Many of the resume firms in the market today offer what appear as great “guarantees”. The resume services will guarantee you a job in 60 days…or they will refund your resume purchase price. Other resume firms guarantee that you will get “interviews” within 30 days or less. If you can find it on their web sites (and it takes some hard searching), read the fine print describing the details of their guarantees. In 99% of the cases, you will find that the guarantees are worthless and that what you end up with is merely a poorly prepared resume. The guarantees have such broad exceptions and/or requirements that you will almost never qualify for the promises of refunds, etc. In other words, these resume firms are offering no guarantee at all. They are scamming you, taking your money and wasting the time you need to be really looking seriously for a job. For more details, click here.
The AlphaDog Resumes 100% satisfaction guarantee is simple. If you are not satisfied with your AlphaDog Resume after using it for 90 days, we will refund 100% of your purchase price. No exceptions. No fine print. Simply ask for your refund.
3. Does Your Resume Service Provide Personal Attention?
Many Resume Services are simply factories, churning out one resume after another with little or no personal contact with their customers. Ask Resume Services whether they will have personal interaction with you in the form of an in-depth telephone consultation regarding your background, your job goals and, just as importantly, your personal situation. A premium resume service wants to know about YOU. Without such personal interaction, you will end up with a resume that will not win you interviews and jobs…it will cost you money and wasted time.
In all of our resume packages, AlphaDog Resumes will provide you with industry-leading personal attention through an expert review of our 14 page Background Analyzer, a comprehensive telephone consultation with one of our resume experts and creation of a resume customized just for you based upon your background and job goals.
4. Can I Speak to a Real Person by Telephone?
With many Resume Services you do not speak to anyone about your background or job goals, including the typist who is preparing your resume from a template. In particular, you might just get to speak to a sales person, not the person writing your resume. In many cases, your resume is prepared by a computer, with no human input.
In all of our resume packages, AlphaDog Resumes prepares your resume based upon a comprehensive telephone consultation with you about your background, etc. The personal telephone conversation not only results in a great resume, it also helps prepare you for interviews. When you call AlphaDog Resumes, you will speak to the resume experts who will be writing your customized resume package.
5. Does the Person Writing My Resume Use English as Their Primary Language?
Believe it or not, many online resume firms are not located in the U.S. or Canada or do not use resume writers who speak English as their primary language. These may be perfectly nice individuals, but your career is at stake here. We get a number of stories from job seekers who used resume firms that produced resumes not utilizing standard English. The result was a waste of time and money and a very upset client who ended up paying to rewrite a resume.
The resume writers at AlphaDogResumes.com are English-speaking Americans, and every one of them holds graduate degrees from prestigious American universities.
6. How Much Time Will You Spend on My Resume?
Ask your potential Resume Services how much time they will spend on your resume package Many Resume Services skimp on the amount of time they spend on your resume…you are merely a resume going through their factory.. Is it less than an hour?
At AlphaDog Resumes, we have no set limit on how much time we spend on your resume. The amount of time varies from client to client, because each client is different and each resume package requires different amounts of input. However, it is safe to say that we will spend hours and hours on each and every resume we produce and that includes even our lower cost resume packages. In all of our resume packages, we will spend time communicating with you about the process, preparing your detailed Background Analyzer, reviewing your Background Analyzer, speaking with you by telephone in a comprehensive consultation, writing and revising your resume and rewriting and revising your resume based upon your specific comments. We spend whatever time it takes to get you the best resume possible.
7. Do You Use Resume Templates?
Ask Resume Services how they will prepare your resume. Do they use one-size-fits-all templates? Do they create a custom resume for you? How do they choose a format for your resume? Many Resume Services use common resume software to prepare your package with the end result being that your resume is generic and not tailored to your personal situation.
At AlphaDog Resumes, we first listen to our client’s needs and situation. We will create your resume from scratch using Microsoft Word. No templates for you! We ensure that your resume will look fabulous, focus on your detailed accomplishments, contain crucial keywords and phrases in optimal locations to maximize recognition by resume management software and eliminate hidden disqualifiers. These issues may be particularly important if you have been searching for a job but have had few, if any, interview callbacks.
8. How Much Help Will You Give Me in Gathering My Background Information?
One of the most important steps in the preparation of your resume is the collection of details about your job search and career goals and your educational and employment background. Ask Resume Services how they plan on collecting this crucial information about you. Do they merely ask you to generally describe your job experience with no guidance as to how to dig deeply within your past to create the details that are absolutely necessary to create your “Brand”?
In all of our resume packages, AlphaDog Resumes will forward to you a 14 page Background Analyzer that contains over 150 questions. As a result, after completing our Analyzer, you will have been prompted to easily create an industry-leading comprehensive description of you, your goals and your background. You will be amazed at the results and how much you remember about your past, including key accomplishments that will set you apart from your competition. Of course, you may complete as much or as little of the Analyzer as you desire.
9. Do You Have Resume Industry Credentials?
Ask Resume Services what credentials they have. Are they members of any national resume certification associations? Do they know your industry?
Our AlphaDog Resumes team has over 50 years of combined direct experience in writing, editing, human resources, recruiting, employee training, publishing, design, sales, marketing, financial services, investment banking and law. We have licensed counsel on staff. We are members of the National Resume Writers’ Association (NRWA) and the Professional Association of Resume Writers & Career Coaches (PARW/CC), the premier certification associations for the resume writing and career coaching industries. Firms with NRWA and PARW/CC membership offer top-quality writers who remain on the cutting-edge of resume writing. The NRWA and PARW/CC provide continuous educational, mentoring and training opportunities for their members, so you can be confident that your resume will be expertly prepared
We write resumes for any industry: services, industrial, technical or creative. We work with any experience level: C-level, executive, middle management or entry level. We offer specialized resume expertise in financial services, investment banking, law, Federal jobs and design.
10. Do You Really Care About ME?
The vast majority of Resume Services online are large, corporate resume factories. You as an individual are ignored on a personal level. You represent just another resume template.
Michael Speas, the owner and founder of AlphaDog Resumes, started the firm because he wanted to help people who found themselves struggling with the difficult task of creating a great resume in the new world of Human Resources resume review software and online job searches in the cutthroat economy in which we find ourselves.
Michael felt the frustration and depression faced by job seekers who would post their resumes online only to hear nothing from the “black hole” of the computerized job search market of today. He felt that someone needed to create a resume service that focused on the personal situations of individual clients.
Michael holds Doctorate and Undergraduate Degrees from Wake Forest University and has been in the Human Resources, Legal and Financial Services industries for almost 30 years. He has written numerous books and articles and has spoken to business groups all over the world.
AlphaDog Resumes was created to care about YOU. No other resume firm will spend more time with you or care more about your job search. We will help you Dominate Your Job Search®.
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