Stand Out and Succeed By Taking Advantage of These High-Quality, Personalized Services!
As owner of Great Impressions Resume & Career Services and a nationally certified resume writer, Tim Solinger's goal is to help you secure interviews and receive job offers by convincingly presenting your qualifications, skills and experiences. Here are the services available to you:
Free initial consultation. Tim starts off by getting to know you and your job/career objectives and interests, as well as reviewing your current resume, if applicable.
Resumes. In today's rapid-paced, highly-competitive job market, you have mere seconds to make a strong first impression with a potential employer and to show what you have to offer. Tim will create for you an outcome-based, value-projecting resume designed to capture the attention of potential employers to help you better compete for the job you want.
Portfolios. For executives, professionals and others who want to go beyond a resume presentation to further differentiate themselves, portfolios can be an excellent tool. Portfolios can include such items as accomplishment summaries, project lists, technology skills lists, industry insight summaries and published article/book synopses.
Cover letters. An effective cover letter is a critical part of any job search. In addition, as opposed to simply repeating information indiscriminately from a resume, a good cover letter is selective and strategic. Tim can create a high-impact cover letter for you that complements your resume and that helps get employers interested in you as a job candidate.
Interview follow-up/Thank you letters. Often ignored by job seekers, follow-up and thank you letters are critical for several reasons. First, they demonstrate professionalism and enthusiasm. Second, they're a chance for you to restate your interest in a job. Third, they offer an opportunity to underscore or repeat certain key attributes or strengths that you feel deserve emphasis or clarification. Tim can create follow-up and thank you letters that reinforce your position as a job candidate and that can help pave the way for an additional interview or a job offer.
Reference lists. It is important to prepare a reference list in the course of conducting a job search so that you are ready should an employer request this information. Your reference list should contain complete contact information (addresses and phone numbers, at a minimum) and be presented in a way that is generally consistent with your cover letter and resume presentation approach (regarding contact information formatting, fonts, etc.).
Recommendation letters. Tim can create a professional recommendation letter for you that captures your thoughts and personality in assessing a particular employee, co-worker or colleague.
Interview techniques. Tim can show you how to use information from your resume and cover letter to distinguish yourself in a job interview, as well as offer other effective interviewing techniques and tips.
Resume and cover letter seminars. Tim presents 90-minute seminars that walk attendees through the essentials of effective resume and cover letter preparation. These sessions include a PowerPoint presentation and handouts and have recently been held at a public library and several technical college campuses.
Hidden job market strategies and techniques. Pursuing unadvertised job opportunities requires a different approach than pursuing advertised jobs. Tim can suggest strategies and techniques, tailored to your situation, that are designed to help you develop a network of contacts and connections as well as secure interviews with targeted organizations.
Home resume parties. Tim will work with you in arranging a resume party in your home, ideally for 4-8 individuals. Tim will conduct a one-hour presentation, a question-and-answer session and one-on-one resume and cover letter critiques. The home party format makes the process of resume and cover letter writing more enjoyable because participants can learn in a casual, relaxed atmosphere among friends and family members.
Employer services. Tim provides resume writing and related services to assist employers and their employees going through transitions as a result of reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, company/department closings or relocations, and other events. Services include resume and cover letter writing, one-on-one resume critiques, and customized seminars/workshops for small groups on resume and cover letter preparation. In short, Tim can provide your employees with the assistance they need to help them compete effectively for jobs in the next phase of their careers.
As an authorized representative of About Me International, Tim offers instruction on the About Me Card Program to career professionals and employers alike. The About Me Card Program is a combination of a personalized business card and a workplace communication and engagement tool. It helps career professionals with networking, building relationships, and sharing their core values and motivations, and it helps business leaders better understand and motivate employees resulting in reduced tension, improved job alignment, and increased worker engagement and productivity. The core of the program is an assessment tool that identifies individual motivational forces and that offers insights for more effective interpersonal communication practices and styles.
For pricing or for more information on any of the services described above, please contact Tim.
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