“Resume Writers Don’t Give Up On Your Lower Level Clients” by @Letmewriteit4u on @LinkedIn

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Have you ever received a client contact and you felt deep down that they were not very accomplished ? Or at the very least could not afford your packages? How about that call you received from an accountant or construction worker who were formerly incarcerated? Feel like you can’t help these groups of clients?

Well, let’s take a look at 2 points to help you never to give up on your clients:

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Debra Ann Matthews, M.A., JCTC is a passionate career coach and resume writer who works with hundreds of clients throughout her career to achieve their dreams. Her extensive experience includes helping in President Clinton’s AmeriCorps, Up With People, and Job Corps. She loves to help motivated career changers in her business Let Me Write It For You. She’s noted in USAA Military, NBC Chicago, MSN Latino, Monster, Monster Working, Calgary Sun, Money Mix, & Careerbuilder.co.uk. Connect with her on LinkedIn at letmewriteit4u.

Do you know what’s important in a $50,000 resume?

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  • PREPARE – Know that you mustprepare 1st! You can’t expect to write down random information. A planned strategic approach for producing this marketing document is necessary to paint just he right picture of who you are and how you want to be perceived.
  • CAREER COMMUNICATIONS – You must also know what elseyou will be expected as you seek to plan your resume. you may be asked for several docs prior to a request for your resume, in your networking and meets and greets within your profession.

Do you know what’s important in a $50,000 resume? See complete article at http://exm.nr/1EVAjG1 via @examinercom.

Debra Ann Matthews, M.A., JCTC is a passionate career coach and resume writer who works with hundreds of clients throughout her career to help encourage them to craft specific and compelling resumes, bios, and relevant career communications. Her extensive experience includes helping in President Clinton’s AmeriCorps, Up With People, and Job Corps. She loves to help motivated career changers in her business Let Me Write It For You. She’s noted in USAA Military, NBC Chicago, MSN Latino, Monster, Monster Working, Calgary Sun, Money Mix, & Careerbuilder.co.uk. Connect with her on LinkedIn at letmewriteit4u or via FB at www.facebook.com/

Does your resume ask for the job?

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After you have written your resume, make sure that you have omitted the critical resume mistakes including:

  1. unrelated to position being filled
  2. too long or too short
  3. unattractive with a poorly designed format
  4. omits contact information
  5. sloppy
  6. misspellings or poor grammar

Does your resume ask for the job?

Take this test:

Does your resume ask for the job? See complete article at

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Debra Ann Matthews, M.A., JCTC is a passionate career coach and resume writer who works with hundreds of clients throughout her career to help encourage them to craft specific and compelling resumes, bios, and relevant career communications. Her extensive experience includes helping in President Clinton’s AmeriCorps, Up With People, and Job Corps. She loves to help motivated career changers in her business Let Me Write It For You. She’s noted in USAA Military, NBC Chicago, MSN Latino, Monster, Monster Working, Calgary Sun, Money Mix, & Careerbuilder.co.uk. Connect with her on LinkedIn at letmewriteit4u or via FB at www.facebook.com/letmewriteit4u.

2 Things to do when you have no skills

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2 Things to do when you have no skills

I know that you have heard the saying, “think outside of the box.”Now let’s do just that.

First of all, know that you possess many unique, valuable skills. Some of them are readily usable, such as your uncanny soft skills. They include:

  • MULTICULTURAL AWARENESS – You understand and appreciate a variety of cultural perspectives and how to enhance productivity.
  • COMMUNICATION – You use appropriate language when addressing different audiences.
  • INFORMATION MANAGEMENT – You can obtain information and are able to evaluate its relevancy, accuracy, and make appropriate use of data.
  • INTERPERSONAL SKILLS – You are able to take an active role when working in teams.
  • WORKPLACE RELATIONSHIPS AND ETHICS – You understand and support organizational goals and structure and you can follow chain of commands.

Other skills, you may need to develop. For instance, you may be a great reader and may need to take a course at a local extension office on “How to Tutor,” or “How to Instruct Others on Basic English.” You may be a whizz at math, computations, and logical reasoning, there are tons of options for people possessing these skills.

Second of all, everyone has to continually develop their skills. You are not different. Learn something that is consistent with your passion for work. There are many types of jobs that value your basis skills. Now add to your skills sets for jobs such as:

  • Online Graders
  • Tutors
  • Teachers in vocational programs (such skills as sewings, welding, labor, construction, computer basics, typing)
  • Coaching everything from cheerleader, flag girls, a musical instrument, soccer, baseball, and kk-12 sports including basketball, football, golf, tennis
  • Subcontract jobs offer work at home opportunities for everything from cell phone customer service to auto mechanic call services. The Census Bureau as well as the IRS offer subcontract opportunities.

There is a wonderful article called, “The 25 Hottest Skills of 2014 on Linkedin,” that will offer value to you as a person who feels that their skills are non existent.

Share with me how you have transformed your mindset about your skills level and how you have overcome it and landed an opportunity for work.

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Can You Stomach Your Resume For Lunch?

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Imagine that your resume has passed the initial test from a group of hundreds of resumes scanned via the applicant tracking system.

Now it’s time for a group of screeners, recrutiers, or headhunters to sit down over lunch and take a peak. Will your resume cause indigestion or will the palate on your unique marketing brand taste as sweet as a gourmet meal?

Let’s take a look at what you’re serving for lunch with your resume:

  • At first glance, does your resume look tasty?

Visual Appeal is the most important way to wet a headhunters appetite to begin a meal of resume selection. Hold your resume at arms length and just look at it and see if the simple lines and bullets form an attractive view for the text highlighted.

Visual Appeal also includes the resume format that you have chosen to use. In some instances, there are certain formats that are most appropriate for your career area.  Educators use Curriculum Vitae, Government Job Seekers use a format provided from http://www.usajobs.gov, and other specialty fields may use yet a different format. In other instances, either chronological, functional, or combination formats work as long as the overall marketing message is crystal clear.

Note if there are colors, bold, underline, graphics on your resume for impact. Visually, take a look to see if there are any differences in text that helps your resume to stand out. A testimony at the bottom of your resume is a nice visual to help your viewers to get excited about your resume meal.

  • To start your resume meal, does your introduction start to let us know who you are as a professional?

I am excited to know if  your name is printed in large enough text to stand out. Next, to start the meal off right, recruiters will look for your contact information (email and phone # placed in the top section of your resume indicates that these are the primary way in which you’d like to be contacted)

Does your summary area streamline your most unique value propositions? Are you clearly communicating your talent, your award-winning specialty areas and most importantly, are you giving your readers a taste of how well you start to solve PAIN (problems in the profession)?

  1. Tell me more about how these achievements were accomplished?
  2. How did the team accomplish such a feat?
  3. Where can I learn more about these processes and how they can best be applied to another company’s unique set of challenges?
  • We hope that your resume meal was so hearty, that recruiters, managers, and hiring managers won’t have room for dessert.

Your resume meal is full of relevant, appropriate keywords , establish how well you collaborate projects that have been difficult, and also demonstrate your commitment for performing top-quality work.

Hiring officials have dined supremely on your resume as a meal and now are ready to give you a call to request either a one on one interview, group interview, or interview via skyped. Surely, they will greet you by saying, “Thanks for the a resume that we can actually stomach“!

Please share with us how you have provided a resume that hiring officials can stomach. We love to hear more about your career success with your career communications. Thanks for reading our posts. Subscribe to our link by clicking here: