professional Resume Writing Pittsburgh, PA…or elsewhere. I just did a Google Search for "resume writers Pittsburgh" and almost FIVE MILLION results appeared! Impossible! There are fewer than a handful of 'Certified Professional Résumé Writers' (CPRWs) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as of this writing (www.parwcc.com). You may have read some of my articles regarding resume writing (I hope so), but a good friend of mine and colleague wrote the following and he was kind enough to let me share with those visitors to this website. It is well worth the read for all job seekers at any level!!
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At Advanced Career Solutions, we are committed to helping you stand out from the other applicants when you submit your resume to a potential new company. Our resume writing help in Pittsburgh, PA, can be just what you need to succeed as you move forward in your career. We can help you prioritize the skills and achievements that you need to truly stand out from the crowd.
Let our team put your mind at ease with our professional resume writing services. We are excited to connect with you on a professional and personal level as we help you write an exciting new resume and flexible cover letter. Yes! A great and targeted cover letter is just as important as the resume itself. 99.9% are terrible and most candidates don't even submit one!?
Read on to learn more about our step-by-step process of helping you write an effective resume so that you can apply to the next job you find with added confidence. Additionally, you can reach out to our friendly team today through our helpful 'Contact' page.
– Bruce Clagg, CPRW, CEIP, ARWC, CPCC
Let our team put your mind at ease with our professional resume writing services. We are excited to connect with you on a professional and personal level as we help you write an exciting new resume and flexible cover letter. Yes! A great and targeted cover letter is just as important as the resume itself. 99.9% are terrible and most candidates don't even submit one!?
Read on to learn more about our step-by-step process of helping you write an effective resume so that you can apply to the next job you find with added confidence. Additionally, you can reach out to our friendly team today through our helpful 'Contact' page.
– Bruce Clagg, CPRW, CEIP, ARWC, CPCC
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5 Tips How to Brand Job Seekers 'Indispensable'
I believe that the earth is flat. I believe that the earth is the center of the universe. I believe I’ll never land another good job in this economy. I believe my resume should only be one page. I believe no one is indispensable.
Have you ever invested time evaluating your beliefs? Have you ever encouraged, even challenged, your clients to evaluate theirs? Here’s why you might want to consider doing so. A belief is a feeling of certainty we have about something… that may very well be false!
Have you ever invested time evaluating your beliefs? Have you ever encouraged, even challenged, your clients to evaluate theirs? Here’s why you might want to consider doing so. A belief is a feeling of certainty we have about something… that may very well be false!
1. Understanding a Job Seeker’s Mindset
The typical job seeker is scared, angry, humiliated, uncertain, uncomfortable, overwhelmed, depressed, or all of the above. I’m certain there are a plethora of other negative emotions I could list here. So I’ll leave it at these seven. But you see my point.
Personally, my primary mission when working with clients is to empower self-confidence leading to success achievement. I am constantly seeking out new tools and strategies to inspire positive outcomes. Whether I’m working with job seekers, résumé writers, career coaches, or corporate clients, my job is to provide cutting edge concepts and techniques to neutralize or eliminate emotional anguish to better achieve worthy objectives. I mean what good is a great resume in the hands of a depressed job candidate? What good is a great website owned by a stressed-out business owner?
Personally, my primary mission when working with clients is to empower self-confidence leading to success achievement. I am constantly seeking out new tools and strategies to inspire positive outcomes. Whether I’m working with job seekers, résumé writers, career coaches, or corporate clients, my job is to provide cutting edge concepts and techniques to neutralize or eliminate emotional anguish to better achieve worthy objectives. I mean what good is a great resume in the hands of a depressed job candidate? What good is a great website owned by a stressed-out business owner?
2. Résumés are Empowerment Tools
Step one, my latest McGraw-Hill book, 5 Steps to Rapid Employment, addresses how to ride the emotional roller coaster; how to manage or neutralize fear and negative emotions. I believe that the BEST motivational tool in a job seeker’s campaign arsenal is an exciting and powerful resume that job seekers are genuinely proud of. When your present job seekers with exciting self-marketing documents (resume “masterpieces”), their confidence level soars! They believe in the product they are selling (themselves) and they become fully engaged and proactive in getting their resumes in front of prospective employers. They believe they are indispensable! Is anyone indispensable? I submit to you that this is not an important question. It doesn’t matter! When you ask a client “What makes you indispensable to your future employer,” odds are she’ll reply, “No one is indispensable.” And you see, that’s a “limiting belief.” Resume writers and career coaches can best assist their clients in attaining their job objectives by inspiring them to acknowledge those areas of expertise and specific qualifications that make them indispensable.
Indispensability is relative. For instance, I believe I am an indispensable father to my son. I also believe I am an indispensable resource for my clients. And it’s my job to maintain top-tier skills and qualifications to remain indispensable. And I believe it’s your job to be an indispensable resource to your clients so they can brand themselves indispensable to the job market.
Indispensability is relative. For instance, I believe I am an indispensable father to my son. I also believe I am an indispensable resource for my clients. And it’s my job to maintain top-tier skills and qualifications to remain indispensable. And I believe it’s your job to be an indispensable resource to your clients so they can brand themselves indispensable to the job market.
3. Indispensable versus Irreplaceable
For you “wordsmiths” out there, there is a significant difference in meaning between indispensable and irreplaceable. Indispensable means crucial, vital, essential, necessary, central, and key. Irreplaceable means nonpareil or inimitable. You are not irreplaceable to your clients, but you are indispensable. And job seekers, when they acknowledge and embrace the fact that they are indispensable to prospective employers, will take the resume you created for them… and with high energy, confidence, and proactivity, get it in front of employers and land job offers.
4. What is a Résumé - Really?
A resume is a hiring proposal. Job seekers submit their resumes to prospective employers just like contractors, or sales professionals submit proposals for new business opportunities. Job seekers are also seeking new business opportunities. And their resumes, for all intents and purposes, are initial proposals to attain that goal.
So this hiring proposal must be a strategic self-marketing document that must communicate one’s value; the results one can produce and contributions one can make as well, or better, than other qualified candidates. And it’s this last part of this definition that must be tactfully addressed. When you consider all the job seekers who are unemployed, underemployed, unhappily employed, and happily employed seeking even better opportunities; there are more than 30 million job seekers in the U.S. alone. Significant competition. So given the stiff competition job seekers face today, I would argue that a resume must be developed as a hiring proposal that communicates that a job candidate is a valuable asset to prospective employers. In other words, a resume must be a hiring proposal that communicates why a job candidate is “indispensable” to his or her future employer!
So this hiring proposal must be a strategic self-marketing document that must communicate one’s value; the results one can produce and contributions one can make as well, or better, than other qualified candidates. And it’s this last part of this definition that must be tactfully addressed. When you consider all the job seekers who are unemployed, underemployed, unhappily employed, and happily employed seeking even better opportunities; there are more than 30 million job seekers in the U.S. alone. Significant competition. So given the stiff competition job seekers face today, I would argue that a resume must be developed as a hiring proposal that communicates that a job candidate is a valuable asset to prospective employers. In other words, a resume must be a hiring proposal that communicates why a job candidate is “indispensable” to his or her future employer!
5. What Does Indispensable Mean in Our World
Let’s dig a little deeper and define “indispensable” specifically for job seekers. “Too valuable not to hire; too valuable to lose once hired.” That’s my definition of indispensable as it related to the workplace and to job seekers. So how do job seekers communicate this on their resumes? Below are 5 Tips on how to brand job seekers indispensable.
“Indispensable: Too valuable not to hire; too valuable to lose once hired.”
1) Communicate return on investment. When job candidates clearly state, on their resumes, that they will deliver, and have delivered (in past jobs), more in value than they are / were compensated for, employers pay attention! Many employees overlook that employers are expecting a return on investment on payroll dollars… and indispensability comes from knowing what return employers can expect for the salaries they pay.
2) Performance storytelling. It’s been my experience that most people take themselves and their achievements for granted. I don’t know many people who go home after a long day’s work and, before they do anything with anyone, spend 10-to-15 minutes reflecting on the day; what they did, how they contributed, what they learned, and what they need to do to remain employment relevant. Performance storytelling is simply the ability to confidently articulate achievements and accomplishments contributed in the past that would indicate future potential. In other words, Performance storytelling helps brand job candidate’s indispensable. No more taking oneself for granted!
3) Kaizen. Indispensability is reinforced when job seekers communicate, on their resumes (and in interviews), that they are self-reliant on remaining up-to-date with the latest skills, qualifications, and performance qualities that consistently produce extraordinary results. Kaizen is a Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement of working practices, personal efficiency, and performance productivity (There is no such word in the English language). Employers want to know that a job seeker is willing to take personal responsibility to remain at the cutting edge in his or her profession or vocation.
4) Be the expert. At the end of the day, whether a job seeker is pursuing a position as a housekeeper, forklift driver, accountant, senior executive, or a receptionist, he must position himself as a “legitimate” expert. The accounts receivable clerk who positions herself as the “collections expert” will not only win job offers, but will have a much better chance of avoiding being downsized when layoffs go into effect. If a job seeker is an expert in his or her field, it must be communicated on the resume because experts tend to be indispensable.
5) Be sincerely respectful to everyone. Indispensable transcends skills and results. Being indispensable means being well liked; that everyone wants to have him or her on their teams. Likability is “priceless.” Mutual respect between team members is one of the components of the glue that keeps companies and teams together – and profitable. And when it comes right down to it, decision-makers are more likely to hire and less likely to downsize someone they respect and like. For the skilled resume professional, this important attribute can be well articulated on resumes. But when resumes are created as hiring proposals that communicate value, R.O.I. (return on investment), and likability / respectability… job seekers will authentically see themselves and brand themselves indispensable. And job offers will naturally follow.”
Jay Block, The Jay Block Companies, LLC
Best-Selling Author / Rapid Employment & Career Management Coach
“Indispensable: Too valuable not to hire; too valuable to lose once hired.”
1) Communicate return on investment. When job candidates clearly state, on their resumes, that they will deliver, and have delivered (in past jobs), more in value than they are / were compensated for, employers pay attention! Many employees overlook that employers are expecting a return on investment on payroll dollars… and indispensability comes from knowing what return employers can expect for the salaries they pay.
2) Performance storytelling. It’s been my experience that most people take themselves and their achievements for granted. I don’t know many people who go home after a long day’s work and, before they do anything with anyone, spend 10-to-15 minutes reflecting on the day; what they did, how they contributed, what they learned, and what they need to do to remain employment relevant. Performance storytelling is simply the ability to confidently articulate achievements and accomplishments contributed in the past that would indicate future potential. In other words, Performance storytelling helps brand job candidate’s indispensable. No more taking oneself for granted!
3) Kaizen. Indispensability is reinforced when job seekers communicate, on their resumes (and in interviews), that they are self-reliant on remaining up-to-date with the latest skills, qualifications, and performance qualities that consistently produce extraordinary results. Kaizen is a Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement of working practices, personal efficiency, and performance productivity (There is no such word in the English language). Employers want to know that a job seeker is willing to take personal responsibility to remain at the cutting edge in his or her profession or vocation.
4) Be the expert. At the end of the day, whether a job seeker is pursuing a position as a housekeeper, forklift driver, accountant, senior executive, or a receptionist, he must position himself as a “legitimate” expert. The accounts receivable clerk who positions herself as the “collections expert” will not only win job offers, but will have a much better chance of avoiding being downsized when layoffs go into effect. If a job seeker is an expert in his or her field, it must be communicated on the resume because experts tend to be indispensable.
5) Be sincerely respectful to everyone. Indispensable transcends skills and results. Being indispensable means being well liked; that everyone wants to have him or her on their teams. Likability is “priceless.” Mutual respect between team members is one of the components of the glue that keeps companies and teams together – and profitable. And when it comes right down to it, decision-makers are more likely to hire and less likely to downsize someone they respect and like. For the skilled resume professional, this important attribute can be well articulated on resumes. But when resumes are created as hiring proposals that communicate value, R.O.I. (return on investment), and likability / respectability… job seekers will authentically see themselves and brand themselves indispensable. And job offers will naturally follow.”
Jay Block, The Jay Block Companies, LLC
Best-Selling Author / Rapid Employment & Career Management Coach
