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Resume Writing FAQ

  1. I've never written my own resume before. Will I be able to do it on my own with EasyJob?



  2. What makes it possible for EasyJob to create resumes that will fit my particular job-search situation?



  3. What can EasyJob do for me that a good resume-writing service can't do?



  4. Will EasyJob save me money?



  5. Just how much money can EasyJob save?



  6. Isn't it just as easy and effective to buy a book on resume writing and/or job hunting?



  7. I've written many resumes and sent them out to lots of employers without getting the response I wanted. Can EasyJob help me break this cycle?



  8. How does EasyJob get the resume-writing job done?


  9. What is "high-speed resume scanning?"



  10. Should I use the service of a headhunter or an executive search firm?



  11. How much time does it take to create a winning resume?



  12. Who can profit from using EasyJob?
  13.  

  14. I already have my resume in my word processor and all I need is a program to do cover letters. Can EasyJob just create a cover letter?



 

I've never written my own resume before. Will I be able to do it on my own with EasyJob?

Writing a relevant, credible, effective and professional resume is not difficult, when you have access to a professional resume writing and creation system, before, during, and after the process of creating your resume and cover letter.

Imagine having access to a highly experienced professional resume writer who will work with YOU as many hours as you want and need, and for one affordable payment.

EasyJob is like having a resume writing guru at your beck and call, 24 hours a day 7 days a week!

What makes it possible for EasyJob to create resumes that will fit my particular job-search situation?

EasyJob is not a standardized program that "spits out" identical resumes.

EasyJob creates a resume ONLY after receiving all your specific, individual information.

In a step-by-step process, EasyJob gathers all the information necessary to create your resumes. Then, it offers you suggestions on how to emphasize your strengths and minimize your weaknesses and provides effective copy you can use as-is or adapt to your exact needs.

You, together with guidance from EasyJob, will create powerful content that succinctly and clearly describes all your work experience and achievements in an impressive way, while omitting statements that could damage your professional image.

There's no limit to the words we can create with just 26 letters in the alphabet. And there's no limit to the individualized, targeted resumes you can create with the hundreds of headings, sentences, and other sample content provided by EasyJob!

What can EasyJob do for me that a good resume-writing service can't do?

There are many resume writing services available to you, from downloadable shareware programs to secretarial-type services and employment counseling agencies.

BUT

Downloading shareware is not the same thing as analyzing your current situation and goals and THEN putting together a resume that is UNIQUE TO YOU.

Thousands of job seekers download the same resume-writing programs and generate resumes and cover letters that employers mistrust because they all look exactly alike.

EasyJob doesn't generate resumes; it creates them. With EasyJob, your resume never appears mass-produced, because with EasyJob's custom resume-creation process, it's IMPOSSIBLE to mass-produce a resume!

A secretarial-type service makes your resume look good and (usually) error-free, but a clean, attractive resume is not enough to secure an interview.

You need a targeted resume for the job you want.

In fact, you may need three or four different resumes, each targeted to a different employer with different needs and positions to fill.

The time you spent completing your education and your years of hard work are wasted if you send a resume that is not tailored to you AND targeted to the job you want.

Even if your qualifications are not the greatest, a well-targeted resume greatly improves your chances of securing an interview. Targeting is part of resume design, and it's not something secretarial or editorial-type resume services are usually equipped to do for you.

EasyJob creates as many targeted resumes and cover letters as you need.

An employment-counseling agency usually takes your money before they make you money.

Certainly, it's fair to pay for a service, but many job seekers are not in a position to spend money before they make money. Often, the fees set by these agencies are substantial, and many firms do not guarantee the success of your job search. Often, the risks outweigh the results.

EasyJob, analyzes your input and individual circumstances in much the same way an employment counselor would, and advises you on the best way to present yourself through your resume and cover letter-for one low cost.

In fact, EasyJob gives you everything all these services offer, and more, for a low, one-time cost!

Will EasyJob save me money?

YES.

A good resume-writing service usually costs from $200- $600 or more. Employment counseling agencies, which normally provide a resume-writing service in addition to some contact information, often charge from $600 to $1500 or more. Most firms charge 11 cents per name for employer contact information.

Yet, for a one-time fee of just $49.95, EasyJob provides you: a professional resume-writing guide; a system for choosing the content and wording for each resume and cover letter, an unlimited number of resumes and cover letters; more than 25,000 resume and cover letter design templates for your Presentation Package; and a database of 11,000 US employers.

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Regular price: $49.95
Introductory price: $39.95
You save: $10 ( 20% )
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Just how much money can EasyJob save?

If you purchased all these services separately, you would spend from $1800 to $4,000 or more. EasyJob not only saves you money, but it also saves you the time it takes to find and contract these services.


EasyJob brings the employment counselor and professional resume-writer "home" to work with you forever.

You'll never need to pay for new resume versions, updates, employer profiles, or any other feature that other services frequently charge for. In fact, the more you use EasyJob, the less it costs!

Isn't it just as easy and effective to buy a book on resume writing and/or job hunting?

The question is: Which one should you buy? One 10-minute search on the Internet, using just one search engine and one online bookstore, results in more than 85,000 listings!

The number of books, applications and web sites on subjects related to job-seeking strategies and resume writing is so vast that a person who starts reading on January 1 will come to December 31 having read only 30 percent of all published materials-IF he or she reads every single day, 24 hours a day!

The creators of EasyJob have already done tremendous legwork for YOU, conducting exhaustive bibliographic searches, reading books, examining software, researching the WWW, and taking the best information from all these documents, and putting it into an easy-to-use format for you.

Why buy one book---or 100 -when EasyJob already gives you access to the most relevant information from hundreds of sources?

I've written many resumes and sent them out to lots of employers without getting the response I wanted. Can EasyJob help me break this cycle?

Definitely! One very important key to breaking this cycle is in finding the job-search strategy that works best for you.

EasyJob offers you two distinct strategies for finding the job that's right for you.

EasyJob Strategy #1: Look for Job Postings.

Thousands of jobs are posted publicly nationwide on a weekly basis. These posted jobs make up the VISIBLE part of the job market-but they by no means represent the total job market. According to some estimates, these visible jobs make up only 20% of the total job market. Many good jobs are never posted in public media, which is why EasyJob offers you a second strategy for job-hunting.

EasyJob Strategy #2: Discover the Hidden Job Offers.

The second strategy is to stimulate job offers by offering your experience, talent, and skills to a prospective employer. With this strategy, you hit a big share of the hidden job market, which can be stimulated by your willingness to participate.


EasyJob's features help you use both strategies effectively and, above all, makes the second strategy feasible for you, with contact information for 11,000 US employers for you to "stimulate."

How does EasyJob get the resume-writing job done?

EasyJob
Creates the right resume according to your personal situation.


After you have defined your individual, professional situation (a young person without work experience, a person aged 50+, etc.), EasyJob prepares an attention-getting resume that will motivate employers to learn more about you through telephone or in-person interviews.

"Introduce" yourself to EasyJob, telling it who you are, what level of education and work experience you have, and other details the program will ask you for. Unlike other resume-writing programs, which ask the same questions every time you prepare a resume, EasyJob does this only once.

Your answers create a comprehensive, individualized database from which you select the most relevant data for each resume, according to the principle of "the right resume for the right employer at the right time." With this database (which you can always update and change in the future), EasyJob serves as a guide that helps you manage your job search and improve your professional image indefinitely.


Since the majority of job seekers write weak resume content, when you use EasyJob you will stand out and look more qualified than your competitors, because: EasyJob actively assists you in making the input to your individual database, as well as in selecting the appropriate output for your resumes.

What is "high-speed resume scanning?"

Because human resource departments receive hundreds and even thousands of resumes for just a few positions, they frequently rely on fast "resume-scanning" to efficiently eliminate candidates whose qualifications don't match the job requirements, and to save for consideration those resumes which present matching qualifications.

If your resume is not designed to survive the high-speed scanning process, then your chances of being considered for a job in a large company decrease substantially.

EasyJob's "special section" feature is designed to make your resume stand out in scans of hundreds of resumes and to immediately catch a recruiter's or employer's attention.

Should I use the service of a headhunter or an executive search firm?

It depends on your individual situation.

If you are over 40 and have highly specialized job experience, a headhunter may be able to help you find the right position.

However, it's important to consider the following possible drawbacks:

  1. A headhunter cannot afford to devote his/her attention to just one client.
  2. Headhunters are often commission-paid and under pressure to meet hiring quotas for the recruitment companies they work for. This need for speed can be a disadvantage to job-seekers and can make you feel pressured into accepting a position that's not exactly right for YOU.
  3. Also, many headhunting firms take a percentage of the new hire's salary for an extended period of time to "pay" for their service.

BEFORE you make up your mind, it's much safer to spend just $49.95, prepare a Presentation Package that is exactly right for YOU and investigate the job market on your own, using EasyJob as your personal assistant.


Later on, if you decide to employ an executive search firm or headhunter, you'll be especially well prepared.

For Limited Time Only!
Regular price: $49.95
Introductory price: $39.95
You save: $10 ( 20% )
Save money to make money!
Buy now!

 

How much time does it take to create a winning resume?

The answer to this question naturally varies with each person, their job experience, and their particular circumstances.

EasyJob makes the most efficient use of your resume writing time, which involves these key activities on the part of the job seeker:

  1. Remembering and defining your job experience, skills, accomplishments, and talents.
  2. Organizing this information and your individual data within EasyJob.
  3. Creating a first draft of your resume and cover letter, then letting it "sit" for 1 to 3 days.
  4. Refining and editing the first draft so that you can create an excellent final version of your Presentation Package.

Efficiency is more important than pure speed. Give yourself the time you need to be sure your resume is complete, but don't procrastinate, either.

Once you are comfortable with your resume and cover letter, and have proofed them well, send them on!

Who can profit from using EasyJob?

EasyJob is an expert resume creation system, and operates with different resume creation guidelines and criteria, depending on your situation.

If you:

  1. Are looking for your first job

  2. or
  3. Have consistent, but short work experience

  4. or
  5. Are changing careers or your past work experience history does not match the job you truly want

  6. or
  7. Have time gaps in your work experience

  8. or
  9. Have erratic work experience, with jobs in many different and non-related fields

  10. or
  11. Have an extensive and consistent work history that includes job titles and salaries similar to the job and salary you currently want

  12. or
  13. Are near or over age 45

EasyJob has the right resume for YOU!

 

No matter what your job-search situation is, EasyJob will create resumes and cover letters tailored to you and targeted to the employer!

 

I already have my resume in my word processor and all I need is a program to do cover letters. Can EasyJob just create a cover letter?

YES!

But...

We recommend that you input your Career Information before creating any cover letter, so EasyJob can create the unique, effective resumes it was designed to create for you.

It takes very little time, thanks to EasyJob's Guru help-system. And, we're 99.9% sure that creating your resume with EasyJob will give you both a better resume and a better cover letter than you've ever had before. And that means, a much better chance of landing job interviews!

Just enter your Career Information one time! From your input, EasyJob will create an unlimited number of different, targeted resumes -- something no word processor can ever do, and something a resume service would charge you for every time you modify your resume.

In the long run, you'll save both time and money and improve your chances of being hired quickly when you create a resume first with EasyJob and then create the cover letter.

If you just can't wait, however, and want to create an EasyJob cover letter without creating your EasyJob resume, here's how:

Start the Career Information Wizard.

Go to Step 2. Enter your contact information and your Job Search Situation (The Wizard will guide you).

Exit the Wizard and create a new Presentation Package. You'll have a cover letter and an empty resume.

For a more professional cover letter, also enter the following data into the Career Information Wizard:

  1. Your degree, if you have one.
  2. Skill Headings of your Work Experience (if you have any).
    This important information can boost your chances of getting an interview.
    (See the Wizard's help for more information.)
  3. Your language skills and computer skills.

See also:

Career Information Database

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