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I cannot thank you enough for your help in revising my resume and cover letter. Your insights about my skills and suggestions on how to present them resulted in a final product that I could never have done on my own. Also, your advice on my job search coupled with an amazing turn around time on the final products have given me tremendous confidence in embarking upon this new job search. So far, I have been called in for an interview by my first choice job in an international organization and have received specific compliments on the resume and letter. Thanks so much! — JM
How have you helped me? Let me count the ways…
You revised my resume into a more coherent document which more accurately presents what I have accomplished and my strengths. You provided me with templates for various cover letters which I have found invaluable. You gave me the encouragement and practical advice I needed to galvanize me into action.
You pinpointed my strengths so that I could tailor my search toward organizations which will work for me.
Thank you! — D.B., New York City
Thank you for giving me the chance to give comments on your services to me. I really appreciate the quality of your work. I would like to continue our work together and I have already recommended you to my friends.
Your advice has been useful and targeted to my particular job search. I believe that your approach has been welcoming and that you have given me full opportunity to share my ideas and thinking. In our initial interview, you gave me the chance to express myself completely. At the same time, you guided me with options and new tools that focused my way of thinking and the way in which I respond to challenging interview questions. You also were quick in responding to my needs. When I told you that I felt that I needed more preparation on answering questions, you wrote me back on the same day and give me many additional useful questions and tools which I could use to prepare myself further. You also assisted in providing guiding questions for my references. Not only I am prepared, but they are also.
A big thanks to ExecSearches.com for providing me with excellent service just when I needed it. I will tell my professional friends and colleagues about how friendly and useful your advice has been. — Vivian, International Client
I really appreciate that this service is available. It is easy to access, reasonably priced, and provides objective and professional feedback that is useful, practical, and geared toward helping the individual be as successful as possible. It was a pleasure talking to someone who is an expert and who knows how to convey that expertise in a quick, clear and supportive way. Although it was a telephone conversation, it was a very personalized experience. It was without a doubt money well spent. Thank you. — Linda O., S. California
When I decided to move back to Cambridge, MA after several years in Manhattan, I was at a loss as to how to begin my search.
A friend referred me to ExecSearches.com and, though skeptical of the ever-shifting dot.com world, I went online. ExecSearches.com allowed me to target my search by location, function and type of organization — and I was able to have my resume reviewed by a headhunter before I started to apply. The process was efficient, fast and, most importantly, productive. Within two months I had interviewed my choices and negotiated the offer.
I have ExecSearches.com and their resume review team to thank for a great position in record time in the city of my choice. And I'm spending summer Sundays as I had dreamed during the bleak days of March: strolling by the Charles River. — Sheila, Somerville, Massachusetts
The face-to-face consulting provided by ExecSearches.com last week in Boston was a wonderful experience. I really appreciate the effort made to accommodate an appointment with me. gave me very valuable advice on how to strengthen and improve my resume so that it better reflected my skills, strengths and work history. I also learned how to better present myself in an interview and how to answer those 'hard' questions. I left the appointment with more confidence in myself and a lot of good tips on how to go forward. Thanks ExecSearches.com. — Patricia, Massachusetts
For several months I contemplated utilizing ExecSearches.com’s service, yet questioned how much could be achieved in one, short hour. Since I was not getting the responses to job applications I had hoped for, I finally bit the bullet and contacted ExecSearches.com.
How wrong I was in wasting months without ExecSearches.com’s input! As soon as our conversation begin, ExecSearches.com was off and running. Almost immediately she said, 'You have three red flags flying over your resume, and if I were the human resource pro reviewing it for a job, I'd probably toss it out. Furthermore, your resume does not tell me X, Y and Z. So let’s get to work.'
"I inhaled deeply and we began. Before I could exhale, ExecSearches.com had totally revamped my resume, offering solid and precise recommendations, all the while explaining clearly why the changes should be made and what it would accomplish. When we hung up, my head was pounding because it was now my turn to produce.
"And produce I did! I never saw the holes and problems on my original resume, nor did my professional friends. Yet, after several hours, and many Advils, I was looking at the real-me-resume, and it astounded me. I now feel as if I can conquer the world! To all of you who have not been offered interviews for those jobs that were 'written for you,' stop wasting your time and energy and call ExecSearches.com. She is a gifted professional who talks straight, knows exactly what must be done, and does so with a supportive and encouraging manner. Just do it! — Robin, San Diego
I plan to apply for a number of jobs over the next several months back in the United States. I am exploring the job market to see what might be available and I intend to be flexible in considering non-profit, government and possibly private sector opportunities. I contacted ExecSearches.com because I haven’t been in the job market for over ten years. I appreciate ExecSearches.com insightful comments and their suggestions were very helpful. I would certainly recommend this service to others. — Anonymous, Amsterdam, Netherlands
My 'new' resume worked!!! I'll be starting as Executive Director of the National Cancer Registrars Association on April 30th. Thanks for your help." — DS, Alanta, GA
"I spoke with ExecSearches.com back in December, during a session in which she critiqued my resume and cover letter to Harvard. To be candid, it was a painful experience, but right on the mark! It got me focused, and got me going. I did revise the resume, and had begun working on the cover letter, to incorporate her comments. The discussion was very helpful as I began to network in December about options.
"The holidays intervened, and immediately afterwards I heard from Harvard. January was a roller coaster of interviews, and I have now been offered and accepted the job of Assistant Director of Residential Real Estate at Harvard University. So I don’t need to revise the letter! But I did want to take the time to thank ExecSearches.com for her excellent service. It was so direct, clear and went straight to the issues that needed to be addressed.
"Thanks so much for an excellent critique!" — Alexandra M. Dailey, Cambridge, Massachusetts
ExecSearches.com has been a life saver. Prior to her reviewing my resume and making major change recommendations, I would send in my resume for a position that I knew I was qualified for, but never got a call for an interview. With frustration mounting, I turned to ExecSearches.com for help, and help she did. After her comprehensive review and follow-up, I know my resume will now turn heads and finally get me that one interview that will change my life. Thanks ExecSearches.com. — D Shoemaker
Working with ExecSearches.com provided me with new insights into resume writing. It’s funny because I've been in the position to review resumes and hire for years and yet when it came to my own, I did a poor job. All of her advice made sense. I've been in the work world for thirty years and didn’t know what to include, or rather, what not to include. She helped reduce the size of my resume without leaving out any vital information.
"ExecSearches.com gave me easy guidelines to follow and prompted me to reflect my accomplishments instead of my job description. Most importantly, I trusted her. Although she was critiquing my work, she was warm and funny, very generous. I definitely recommend her and this service, even if you believe your resume is in superb order. Its worth the investment." — Kathleen, Pennsylvania
Working with ExecSearches.com helped me improve my resume. ExecSearches.com, with her past experience, was able to tell me how my resume would be read, how things could be misinterpreted, and how to fix it. That was invaluable since I tend to assume that others will 'know what I mean.' She made a number of suggestions that I have incorporated and think will be helpful as I pursue my career options." — J Rose, Washington
"I approached the resume service reluctantly. After all, why should a communications pro and lifelong writer need help, let alone pay someone else?
"Wrong: on both counts. The counsel of ExecSearches.com provided thoughtful perspective and recommendations of true value. Comments were succinct, targeted and tactfully presented. This is not a word or text editing exercise, as much as a life editing and presentation opportunity, with an expert. Nor is the service a writer for hire. ExecSearches.com is a highly competent guide to self-implemented marketing — from the written page to focusing or considering experiences. I enthusiastically recommend." — A 30-year veteran of media and public relations
"I am happy to recommend the services of ExecSearches.com for non-profit professionals looking to improve the quality of their resumes. I contracted with ExecSearches.com to review my own resume and was thrilled with the results.
ExecSearches.com reviewed my resume prior to our phone consultation and came to our discussion with insightful questions and concrete recommendations. During our conversation I felt ExecSearches.com was really working to help create a document that worked for ME as opposed to the copycat-type resume advice one might get from books or lesser-qualified professionals.
She offered a refreshing new perspective on this important document that was obviously based in years of experience, critical thought and a creative mind. She even found typos, despite the fact that my resume had been proofread no less than 4,000 times!
Because of my work with ExecSearches.com, my resume is more focused and organized, and the content more clearly reflects my career goals. — Anne Marie, Northeast
I found ExecSearches.com's work to be very professional: thorough, challenging, helpful, on target, supportive and respectful of me as a professional. I experienced her as a delightful person: warm, affirming, humorous, competent, and insightful. I appreciate her helping me create a resume and cover letter which tells the story of my skills, interests, and experience in a more presentable way. — C.T. Georgia
As a retired oil industry support services manager with 22 years overseas experience, returning home to the US and looking for a job here has been different from what I expected, to say the least. For this reason, I requested ExecSearches.com resume review service, and I wish to offer the following evaluation of the service received to date:
The service received was the basic resume and cover letter review and a 45 minute telephone interview with ExecSearches.com. Observations made to my cover letter and resume were precise, to the point, and showed a clear understanding of executive responsibilities and skills. ExecSearches.com demonstrated excellent interviewing skills and managed to communicate quite effectively over the phone, giving me excellent value for my investment. Recommendations were given along with specific criteria that will serve to evaluate the results of my decisions and actions, (for example, explaining that a specific change in my resume should generate interest in a specific industry and not in another). At all times I felt I had (and have) the freedom to decide in the future whether or not to request additional services from ExecSearches.com. Compared to other career services I have received, ExecSearches.com has offered the most specific and precise assistance.
To conclude, I can safely recommend ExecSearches.com’s resume review service for experienced managers and executives that are interested in up-to-date professional advice.
M Perez, New YorkWhen else can you get an executive recruiter to look over your resume BEFORE you submit it to an executive recruiter? Working with ExecSearches.com is like getting a private tutor for the biggest test of your life. She provides not only insight to resumes and cover letters, but also to the entire job hunting experience. My resume and cover letter have gotten me more interviews, and I have performed better in those interviews, because of ExecSearches.com. — George, Washington, DC
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