Executive Resume and Selection Criteria Service
Welcome
This is a service for high flyers who are seriously committed to their career development. The sort of person who expects a personal service based upon the highest standards and the best available research. Somebody who sees the benefits of engaging the company that has produced the internationally best-selling resume guide based upon their unparalleled industry research.
"I had prepared my own resumé but I wasn't getting any response from employers," says Li, who turned to the Web for help. She found consultant Karen Bright, who specialises in preparing resumés, and immediately began achieving results by making it to shortlists. Li is now employed as a trading assistant with a company that exports beef to North America and Asia. She asked me to provide much more information and when she revised the resumé I could see that from the employer's point of view, it showed not only what I could do but also my abilities and personality," says Jenny Li. Li says getting help to rewrite her resumé was the best move she ever made. "And when I move on, I'll go back to Karen to help me again," she says."
Extract from interview with one of our clients by Tracey Evans in Microsoft Communique Magazine April 2003. Read the whole article at http://www.cmq.com.au/features/article.asp?article_id=580
"I have had success with the résumé you provided me."
I.P. from Perth.
"After being made redundant I invested in Jim's resume service. The wonderful resume provided me with an edge on other candidates and secured me a more senior position with excellent prospects in just 8 weeks! Thanks"
RG - Sydney
"I just wanted to say thanks for all of your hard work on my selection criteria and resume. I got the job. Thanks again for your service. I continue to recommend you."
"The draft looks great"
"I now realise the benefits of using your company and you can be assured that I will spread the word about your company."
"That is very good! A vast improvement over my previous efforts. It really does emphasise the 'right' positive aspects."
Why we are different
1. Our service is based upon a programme of research that began in 1995 into what makes a Résumé get shortlisted. This work has resulted in papers published in leading international and national journals on careers (International Journal of Selection and Assessment, Australian Journal of Career Development).. Our work on careers has been presented at International conferences in the USA, Singapore and Australia. We have provided outplacement, job hunting and careers training based on our work to a range of leading Australian organisations. Thus the résumés we produce for you are not based just on industry experience (though we certainly have that!) but also on what has been demonstrated to work. This is a service that tailors résumés for each person and job. We regularly work with Vice Principals, CEOs, Senior Managers, Graduates, Career Changers, and those people looking for an outstanding professionally written résumé.
2. This is an intensive one-to-one service that requires many hours of preparation and significant time getting to know the client and the position they are applying for. This tailored service has an outstanding success rate. The service is designed for Senior Professionals or those aspiring to reach those ranks, and for those who can see the merits of investing in their own career development.
How it works
There are five steps in the process.
We need to get all your biographic information - we normally request this by email or fax (but can arrange face-to-face meetings in our North Sydney office), and can guide you on what we need. Often if you have an existing résumé it will contain a lot of the basic information we require and you can provide us with that. This saves you time relaying stuff you have written before.
We generally talk to you by phone to get a fuller picture of your achievements and your career goals.
We ask you for information regarding key work achievements and information about the key competencies that our research indicates are the most important ones required by employers. If you have a job in mind we ask for details of the ad so we can tailor these competencies to the specific ones required for that job. This process is generally done by email and with phone calls (but can be done in a face to face interview in North Sydney).
We produce a draft of your résumé and send it to you for your feedback. We then attempt to incorporate the feedback and produce a final version.
We print four copies of the final version on high quality paper. We bind one permanent copy. We burn a copy onto a CD for you to edit for future versions. We send this package to you and include a copy of our best selling book on résumés.
How long does it take?
Obviously the more time you can give us, the more work we can put into producing an outstanding résumé. We can turn around résumés in 24 hours if you are facing an impossible deadline. Please enquire if you need this express service as it depends on our workload at the time. Normally up to 7 days is a reasonable time for us to do a good job, and for you to have an opportunity to look at drafts and provide us with all your achievements and competencies.
Face to face Consultations
We are happy to meet you in our office in Warriewood on Sydney's Northern Beaches. In our experience, it is simply not necessary to do this for the vast majority of clients. This is because most of the information we require is more efficiently collected by other channels. Busy professionals often do not have the time to attend such meetings. However, we do recommend such consultations if there are special circumstances that you wish to alert us to in more detail.
An example résumé makeover. Here is an example of a makeover of the first page of a client's résumé. The names, dates and other personal details have all been changed. The original was poorly formatted, did not emphasis achievements, and had no logical flow. Furthermore, a lot of irrelevant information was included, some of which could prejudice the candidate's chances of success. Typically, this client was extremely pleased with the final result!
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What you get
- An individually tailored, laser-printed résumé on top quality paper.
- Five high quality photocopies of the résumé.
- A professionally bound copy of your résumé.
- A floppy disk containing the résumé in a range of Word formats (we can burn these copies onto a CD for additional security and no extra cost, please advise which medium you prefer).
- A copy of the bestselling book Résumés that get shortlisted: proven strategies to get the job you want by Jim Bright and Joanne Earl (This normally retails at $24.95). This books provides advice demonstrated by Australian research to work. It empowers the reader to produce their own winning résumés for future applications.
- Sample cover letters to use for a winning application.
- Exclusive tips for job interviews - material not included in the book!
Fees This exclusive high quality individual service is available at the following rates:
Australia
Senior roles / selection criteria $1500 (inc GST)
Express service - resumes/selection criteria turned around within 2 business days $2000(inc GST)
We regularly work with overseas clients in the UK, US, Europe, Hong Kong, Singpore
Payment methods:
credit card
e-mail your card number, type and expiry date to resumes@brightandassociates.com.au
or
Call and provide details over the phone +61 2 91149988
or
Fax card number, type and expiry date to +61 2 99860411
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Mail cheque made out to: Bright and Associates.
Mail it to:
Bright and Associates
4/9 Ponderosa Parade
Warriewood, NSW 2102
Australia
If you have any queries about the résumé service please don't hesitate to contact us at resumes@brightandassociates.com.au.
A great guide for all Australian job hunters. Available here or at all good book stores.