"YOU-Branded" Resume Development by a Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW)

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I HEAR YOU! Writing your own resume or updating it to reflect your latest career achievements, credentials, or kudos isn't fun. As a matter of fact, my professional advice is that no one should create their own resumes. Not because it's not fun, or because it's my business, but because it is unlikely to be done well.

As one of only a very few Certified Professional Behavioral Analysts (CPBA) and Certified DISCstyles TM Communication Consultant (CDCC) in the careers industry, who is also a Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW) with 30+ years of experience developing, writing, and designing—not just your resume—but your career communications strategy, you will partner with someone who is uniquely qualified to put YOU first.

My business motto is "We bring out the best in YOU!" It's not only my motto, but my passion. Even if you don't know how to describe what it is you're the best at, I can find it, brand it, and sell it! Relentless in the pursuit of compelling information ... insightful, intuitive, and creative in its presentation ... I promise to do for you what I've done for thousands of others.

I am deeply experienced, but warm and approachable, with a genuine interest in YOU as a person. Helping clients in all industries, in any function, and at all levels: From entry-level to the C Suite and freelancers to business owners. Anyone who needs distinctive and powerfully branded resumes, letters, e-notes, social media messaging, profiles, and bios.

The Process
FIRST ★ DISC Communication & Behavioral Strengths Consulting and Value Offer Development.
DISCareer | AboveALLResumes may be the ONLY resume service built on a career management foundation and structured around the essential framework of YOU.

The most important life choices we make and continue to make is our initial career choice and ongoing career management. The average person who works full time for 35 years, averaging 40 hours per week for 50 weeks a year, will spend 70,000 hours of his/her life at work!

Our partnership begins with DISC assessment administration, analysis, and consulting using one of the most respected, validated, and reliable assessments in the industry. This is where we will DISCover the unique communication and behavioral strengths you use to drive your professional success and the success of the organizations you contribute to: from initial hire, to leadership progression, through career transitions.

SECOND ★ Proprietary Branding Worksheet, Collaborative Questioning, and Optional In-Depth Phone Interview.
From our initial consultation to final wrap-up, I will be asking questions. As mentioned above, I am relentless in the pursuit of compelling information. What do you want to achieve? What energizes you? What do your peers say about your unique strengths and style? What is it recruiters, hiring managers, and executives need to know about you? The answers to these questions clothe our initial DISCovery framework with a robust strategy that will power your brand in all your career communications and marketing.

THIRD ★ Branding, Writing, and Design producing one-of-a-kind "YOU-Branded Resumes."
The central DISCovery process, penetrating information gathering, and collaborative questioning frames our strategy, plots our career management steps, and births the brand of YOU! And that brand will power the rest of the process. Writing in your voice, demonstrating your unique communication and behavioral strengths, and highlighting challenge-action-result career accomplishments is the power that propels the writing and design, through the use of validated information gathered from our high-value DISC assessment process, proprietary branding worksheet, and on-target questioning.

And guaranteed NO FLUFF!!
No overused adjectives and descriptors like "visionary" and "results-oriented" — words that others may use to try to distinguish themselves, but have as much impact as "great." I will carefully craft the words and select fonts, colors, graphics, and charts that speak your brand language and tell your career story in a proven challenge-action-result narrative, delivering a high-ROI presentation that compels a call to interview.