Welcome to Career Path Resume

At Career Path Resume our primary goal is to help you achieve yours.  Our skillfully created resumes are based on a thorough understanding of your situation.  Your experience, education, creativity, skills, goals, dreams and challenges are but some of the key ingredients that go into your new resume.   We focus heavily on the resume creation process because we know that this is the key to creating a truly great final product.   An excellent resume is the result of an excellent process.

 

The Proverbial Pile

Do you ever wonder whether your resume is near the top or the bottom of the pile?   Do you fear it may be sitting near the bottom of the pile?   Worse yet, do you ever wonder if it went into the “circular” file?  Do you wonder if any employers have read it?   Actually read it in its entirety?   It can be difficult to know how your resume ranks, especially if you wrote it yourself and have nothing to compare it to.   You don’t know what you don’t know…

 

 

 

 

 

 

DIY Resumes

Many job seekers opt for a DIY (Do It Yourself) resume.  Some work out alright, while the vast majority of them are inadequate.     This is in great part due to the fact that the job seeker is typically unable to properly critique their newly created resume.   Some compare their newly created resume to their past resumes and even their friends’ resumes, but most never get a handle on how their resume ranks in the “real world".

 

We believe the root of the problem is that most job seekers do not fully understand the very low odds of creating a successful DIY resume that is engaging, powerful, and effective.   Most job seekers with DIY resumes lose out on a new job the second they hit the print button. 

 

Some Interesting Facts:

• Most job seekers take the DIY approach to resume writing AND their entire job search

• Between 95% and 97% of resumes fail

• Less than 3% of job seekers use a professional resume writing service

• Interestingly, the percentage of successful resumes is about the same as the percentage of job seekers that used a professional resume service

Without professional assistance on some level, you may never know if rejections are due to your resume or your skill set.   At a bare minimum, it is a good idea to have a professional read your completed resume.  Just borrowing their expert eyes, if only for a moment, can be a great help. 

 

THE GOOD NEWS

The good news for you is that most job seekers opt for a DIY resume.   This makes it easy for a great resume to stand head and shoulders above the crowd.  There is no substitute for a great resume.  A great resume vastly increases your odds of getting that first interview and ultimately, a job.   If you are not getting any interviews or phone calls, then perhaps your resume is the problem, especially if your equally qualified friends and colleagues are interviewing more frequently than you are.