Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About Resumes

Apart from resumes writing server, our team of expert writers also provide services related to (1) LinkedIn Profile Update (2) Career Booster Services (3) SOR-LOR with Academic Resumes (4) Defense Force Personnel’s Resume Writing Services.

A recruiter spends about 15 to 30 seconds to review your resume before deciding, if you are a deserved candidate for the interview. So, our resume writers usually think from a recruiter’s point of view and bring out various important and interesting points to showcase your strength in your resume. This will grab the attention of the recruiter. Also, they will make sure to use a user-friendly resume template, which don’t confuse any recruiters. They will make sure to include the industry and domain specific keywords into your resume, which will increase your chance of get more interview calls. They will also bring out your accomplishments with statistical data, which will attract the recruiters to call you for the interview process.

We work with various clients across the world via telephone, email, and web conference. If you want to speak to our Resume Writer, we can arrange a special meeting with them. Otherwise, we will collect all your requirements via Phone and transcribe them in word document. This transcribed word document will be forwarded to the resume writer. This process will help the resume writer to understand your requirements.

As you all know that, many companies now a days uses ATS for their screening process. Just wanted to inform you that, there are many ATS system available in the market, each ATS system will function differently and the ability to sort and manage candidates based on the keywords present in the resumes. So, we will try to maximize the result in the ATS system by adding various keywords, but still it will be your duty to check the job description properly and check whether those keywords are present in our resume. If some keywords are missing based on the Job description, I would recommend to add the missing keywords into your resume, before submitting your resume for a particular Job opening.

Once you make your payments, we will review your resume and raise clarification on your resume. It will be either telephonic or by email. Once we receive the clarification response, we will deliver the first draft of resume within 3 days. If you want to make any changes in your first draft, we will give you 2 days to provide your feedback. Once we receive your feedback on the first draft, the correction will be incorporated and final resume will be delivered within 24 hours. The whole process to finalize a resume will take 3 to 7 days based on the customer response to the clarification document and feedback on the first draft. If they delay in providing the response, the delivery period might change.

Yes. We offer free resume critique to our clients, allowing them to assess the issues present in their current resume. If our clients wish to rewrite their resume based on our suggestion, then we will provide them with the details to fix the issues. If they want our professional resume writers to help them to update their resume, then we are always ready to help them to update their resume.

We will deliver the resume and cover letter is DOCX format. In some cases, we will deliver the resumes in PDF formats.

Our Resume Writers have 10+ years of experience in writing resume for various industry and domain. Over the years, we have written resume for 85+ major industries involving more than 112 domains. This massive experience has allowed us to cater to the needs of clients from different industries.

One-page resume is good enough for fresh graduates, but for experienced candidate, you can have resume length from 2 to 3 pages maximum.

We would recommend to include contact details, profile summary, list of key skills, list of technical and software skills, career/work history, accomplishments, education qualification, certification and volunteer work (if any) Should my resume be written reverse chronological, functional or Hybrid? Reverse Chronological Order One of the mostly used resume format is reverse chronologically order resume. It really helps the recruiter to screen your resume quickly and shortly for interview quickly. In this format, you should show your work experience in reverse chorological order by providing your current work experience in top of the list. Then list down the previous work experience below in reverse order. The candidate can use this format, if you don’t have any career gaps or candidates willing to change their career to different domain. We would recommend you to include Objective, Summary, Experience, Education and Reference in this format. Functional Resume The functional resume is used when you want to draw attention away from your work experience due to career long gaps and career transition etc. In this resume, you can focus attention on achievements and core competences. This format will be suitable for fresh graduates, candidate looking for career change and anyone with career gaps. In terms of experience, you can show transferrable skills in your resume, which is required for new industry or for new job. You can include Objective, Accomplishments, Capabilities, Employment History, Education, References Hybrid Format The hybrid format is a combination of reverse chronological order and functional resume. In this format, you can show your current experience and also add the relevant knowledge and skills which you have gained to change the career to the new domain or industry. The best example would be a person willing transition from non-technical job to a technical software development work. In this format you can include objectives, summary, accomplishments, experience, education and reference.

The employment gaps can be handled by just providing the employment year alone instead of providing month and Year. For Example: Senior Manager (2018-2020), instead of writing (Jan 2018 – May 2020). This will help you to cover your gap for few months. But if you have career gap for more than a year, you have to provide justification and reason for the career gap. The career gap could be due to personal reason, accident, Sickness, etc. which you will provide a clear explanation in the interview process.You can also use a functional resume format and showcase your skills and accomplishments in your resume, rather than providing your work experience as important. In some cases, you can also remove some of your old experience, which doesn’t add any value to your current roles and responsibility. This will help you to hide you career gaps, which is present in your earlier stage of the career. If you have taken career gap due to higher education or for doing any specific certification, you can show those details in the education and certification section of your resume, which will solve your career gap issue. You can also use differently formatted resume by removing the bold font or to use small font to grab less attention on the Year of the experience on your resume. This small change will also make a big difference in your interview process.

Attaching a Photo to your resume is not required for United States, United Kingdom and Ireland. But if you are applying for Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Scandinavian Countries, Middle East, Africa, Asia, and South America. For the remain countries, you may include Photo your resume to increase visibility to your resume. Instead of focusing too much on Photo, we would recommend you to focus on your skills, core competency and accomplishments area in your resume. If you are including a Photo to your resume, try to use the Professional Photo with clear face.

A Cover Letter is an important document, which should be included while applying for any particular position. It will help you to explain how your skills and experience are matching to the requirement of the job description mentioned in the job opening. It helps to showcase your strength, knowledge, experience and technical skills, which will help the recruiter to understand better about your profile. So, it is always good to send a Cover Letter along with the Resume.

Yes, we can create a new resume even without your old resume. Basically, we will send a customer query document, in which you can provide all your career summary, skills and core competency information. We will also call you understand better about your profile and your requirement. This will help us to build a resume without any problem.

Now a days approximately 86% of the companies are using Application tracking system to sort thousands for resumes received for each Job position. If you apply any particular job via online job portal, it will not go directly to the recruiting company, the ATS will track all the application and create a rank for each resume based on the relevant keywords present in the resume. If a person is more than 90% keywords, his resume will go on top of the database. The recruiters will only check the application which is having more than 90% keywords.

The best way to develop the keywords for your resume is to search for the relevant job posting available in various job portals. Copy the job description of the various job posting, then note down the important keywords which is present in each job position. You have to list down all the relevant keywords from the job posting available. Once you have listed all the keywords, you have to prepare the job description by using the key words available in your list. If you are able to bring all the keywords into your resume, then it becomes the most powerful resume. But keep in mind that, you have to choose the correct ATS compatible resume template to prepare your resume. Your resume template should not have any tables, columns, pictorial images, etc., because ATS cannot scan these kinds of information. Also don’t add any keywords in header and footer.

Yes, it is very important to tailor your resume for every job posting. Basically, you have to modify your resume based on the job description provided for each job posting. If any keywords are missing in your resume, your ATS score will automatically become low, hence you have to customize your resume for each job posting and add those missing keywords into your resume before you apply for that particular position. This will help you to score higher ATS score and get quick interview calls.