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A professional resume is not just about taking your education and experience and putting it on paper. A professional resume service will spend a great deal of time asking you probing questions about your strengths, your personal attributes, your work history, your education and your skills.

A quality professional resume writer will spend time getting to know you, until she or he feels the she understands your personal and professional goals. Where a professional resume service exceeds your ability to create a powerful resume is their ability to remain objective and organize your resume the most effectively and uniquely.

There are some excellent resume templates available online and many job candidates use them. However, your professional resume should always at least give the appearance that it has been created from scratch, as should your cover letter. What you don’t want is to send a cover letter whose objectives and message is so vague as to give the impression that you’ve written the same letter to each potential employer. Your professional resume’s cover letter should convey the message that this particular firm is the one for which you wish to work and this open position the one you wish to hold.

A professional resume writing firm will know how to present your skills, your achievements, and your academic and career credentials in the most impressive way - the way that will get you that all-important interview.

Your only task, when working with a professional resume service, is to answer the questions truthfully and fully and come prepared with dates, employer contact information, references and education details such as transcripts, certificates, degrees and diplomas.

Pricing packages at one of the professional resume sites we perused differed by level of professional resume needed. The three levels are executive resumes, professional resumes and support staff packages. The professional resume pricing, for example, actually offers 7 different packages in addition to some individual add-on services and features.

The first package of the professional resume pricing is a resume and cover letter in a hard copy version only, for $290. Package number two adds on a reference list and a thank you letter, all hard copy only. This package is $360. The next package, number three, is a resume and cover letter, with one hour of career and interview coaching included. This professional resume package is $380. Package number four, is all hard copy and includes resume, cover letter, reference list, thank you letter, and one hour of coaching. The price for this professional resume package is $525. Package number five adds a portfolio by Internet to a package of resume and cover letter, reference list and thank you letter, for a total price of $460. The final professional resume package upgrades the career coaching to three hours, for a total cost of $590.

If you wish to purchase a professional resume by itself the cost is only $225. You can also choose to purchase only a cover letter for a mere $50. For an additional $60 you can purchase the right to have this professional resume service upgrade your resume as necessary.

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