Resume Services
Traditional, Electronic, Scannable and Web Formats
  Is your resume generating the interviews you deserve? Or, is the thought of writing one overwhelming? It takes employers and recruiters just seconds to decide whether to interview you. At Career Directions LLC, we are skilled in designing keyword-driven resumes that showcase your best success stories, articulate your personal brand and communicate a clear message about your business value to get interviews.
With an 18+ year track record of success in assisting executives and managers from Fortune 100 and other companies, you can be confident that we provide the expertise to capture the attention of target employers and search firms to optimize your results.
However, an exceptional resume is only the beginning. For a successful search, you also need to understand the strategies that will work best for you. That’s why our process includes advising you in the right career search strategies for your particular background and situation.
When you invest in our resume services, you will receive:
- A custom questionnaire to uncover your unique talents, skills and personal brand.
- An in-depth consultation to further clarify/identify your career goals, career successes and business value.
- Development of your new resume in MS Word and Electronic (ASCII) formats.
- Complimentary follow-up strategy session to help you accelerate your search results after completion of your resume.
When you invest in our resume and cover letter services, you will receive:
- A custom questionnaire to uncover your unique talents, skills and personal brand.
- An in-depth consultation to further clarify/identify your career goals, career successes and business value.
- Development of your new resume in MS Word and Electronic (ASCII) formats
- Customized suite of marketing letters for recruiters, employers, contacts and advertised positions.
- Complimentary follow-up strategy session to help you accelerate your search results after completion of your resume.
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How Our Process Works
If
you are considering retaining our firm, we offer a simple,
straightforward and convenient process. Before working together,
we will schedule a no-obligation appointment to learn about
your career situation, assess your needs and goals, and
determine if we're a match. To get started, just call 860-623-9476,
or either fax (860-623-9473) or email
your resume to us.
Once we agree to work together, the next steps are as easy as saying 1-2-3-4:
- You will receive by email a custom questionnaire (specific to your field) to complete that will help us identify critical information about your unique background and qualifications.
- When we receive your completed questionnaire, we will schedule our resume development strategy consultation.
- Within 5 to 7 business days, you will receive your emailed draft for review and feedback. We will discuss changes (if any), turn around your completed version quickly, convert it to ASCII format and deliver your final documents to you by email or mail (if you prefer a disk).
- Our next step is to discuss the best strategies to optimize your career search success.
Payment is required by credit card at the time services are retained. We accept all major forms of credit cards: Visa, Master Card, American Express and Discover.
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Invest in Your Career
Based on your individual service needs, we will provide a free quote to craft your resume. Our resume development services are individually quoted based on the complexity of each project.
If you have an existing resume, either attach your MS Word document to an email message or fax it to our 24/7 confidential, fax line at 860-623-9473. We will be happy to tell you how we can help make a difference in your career search and provide a firm quote.
"Your resume and coaching services were the best investments I ever made in my career. Not only did you write an outstanding resume and letter that generated continually positive feedback, but you also helped me shorten my search (I had already wasted months to no end) and negotiate a compensation package at a significantly higher rate than I ever expected. I can't thank you enough. I don't want my competition to know about you."
- Michael Sarnow, Senior Vice President
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Writing Your Own Resume
- Are you struggling with writing your own resume or cover letter?
- Are you uncertain if you are using all the right industry-specific keywords?
- Are you having difficulty identifying your business value?
If you would like to write your own resume and/or cover letter and want to avoid second guessing your efforts, we offer a resume writing coaching service for $350.
With this service, you will receive a consultation, resume questions specific to your background to help you uncover your skills, strengths and success stories, along with a one-of-a-kind design format just for your resume as a value-add. We will also review your resume along each step to help you polish it and ensure the results are perfect.
To get started, just email or call us today at 860-623-9476.
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Career Letters
A well-designed product package entices a customer to buy. A company would never attempt to sell a product without an eye-catching label. In fact, most companies spend thousands of dollars perfecting the first impression of their product - the package.
A well-written career marketing letter is the packaging for your resume. We know that hiring managers read resumes with introductory letters that reel them in. We specialize in writing career-marketing letters that generate interest and don't leave the fate of your resume to chance.
Depending on your background, more than one kind of letter may be appropriate for you. We can develop a specific letter or a suite of letters that you can use or modify as needed.
Cover, Interview Follow-up and Other Letters
- Formats for ad responses that will increase your interview opportunities
- For direct mail campaigns to employers, recruiters or venture capitalists
- For networking associates and influential contacts to request an informational meeting
- Broadcast letters for specific situations that combine the features of a resume and cover letter into one (used when a resume and cover letter may not be to your advantage)
- Consulting letters for individuals searching for consulting, project or per diem assignments
- Thank you letters for each interviewer to reinforce your candidacy, provide another opportunity to emphasize what you can do for the company or turn around a poor interview
- Follow up letters to keep communications open and your name in the forefront
- Resignation letters to demonstrate your professionalism and secure positive future references
- Acceptance letters outlining all the mutually agreed upon terms of your new employment
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Virtual Career Tools
Virtual Career Tools and Marketing Career Tools are a la carte, specialized applications and services for advanced job-search requirements and do-it-yourself career marketing. Call us at 860-623-9476 or email us to learn more about any of the services below.
Web Resumes
Web resumes offer you a simple, confidential and fully updatable template system, virus-free and with confidentiality controls. Choose between self-service and full-service options and see your resume on your personalized web address.
Job
Search Management Tool
This proprietary career management tool allows you to keep
track of your job search campaign activities efficiently...
all of the information you collect during your job
search. You will be able to easily track all employers that
you apply to, along with each job and log the status of
each job. You can also store multiple versions of your resume
and cover letter on this unique system, and create a database
of your networking contacts.
e-Portfolios
The results of your professional career come to life with an e-Portfolio. Just as a resume summarizes your education, achievements and talents, the e-Portfolio provides an innovative and technology-savvy, 3-D presentation of the value of your professional talent. Call us at 860-623-9476 or email us to learn more about it.
Confidential Online Resume Posting and Management
With one click of a button, gain instant exposure to employers in your target industries and geographic areas.
Employer Research Services
Save countless hours of employment research. Spend your time networking and interviewing more effectively with the information we collect.
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Targeted Direct Mail, Fax or E-mail Campaigns to Employers and Recruiters
According to a survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor and other industry sources, 87% of all available positions are never advertised. Through a well-planned and targeted direct mail campaign, you can identify current employment opportunities that are unadvertised. Depending on your level, a direct mailing to search firms can open the door to organizations that only hire through recruiting sources.
It's quick and easy to execute a well-planned job search with our targeted resume distribution service. Put your resume in the hands of targeted hiring managers and recruiters today. You select the criteria: industry, geography, revenue base, etc. We can research, develop and manage customized mailings to:
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Top recruiters in your industry and geographic area preferences
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Decision-makers of targeted companies in your industry and geographic area preferences
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High growth companies that are searching for additional personnel to support expansion efforts
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Venture capitalists actively involved in recruiting talent for their portfolio of companies
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Career Coaching
- Do you need help finding a new position or changing your focus to a new ca
 reer?
- Is your career industry shrinking but you don't know what to do next?
- Do you feel burnout or dissatisfied with your present job?
- Are you having difficulty working with a new boss?
Are you interested in moving up or need to find work/life balance?
- If you don't know where to begin. We can help.
Statistics show that 87% of Americans would like a more fulfilling career, but because of overwhelming frustration and discouragement, give up in finding career satisfaction before they even begin.
At Career Directions, LLC, we help you get on track and stay there. Career coaching gives you a realistic plan with specific action steps to jump-start your search for a new career field or position. You benefit from the support, clarity, direction and resources of career coaching as you discover opportunities to enjoy what you do.
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Competitive Edge Career Coaching Services
Here's what you receive with our comprehensive Competitive Edge Career Coaching program:
- In-depth appraisal of your qualifications and skills to identify your unique brand, talents, and career achievements.
- Establishing immediate and long-range, realistic career objectives that will offer you career satisfaction and the right compensation.
- Development of your marketing documents—resume, letters and other appropriate materials—to showcase your value to prospective employers.
- Development of a written career marketing plan to assist you in identifying appropriate industries and employers, and in establishing appropriate level contacts for exploratory interviews and job interviews.
- Training in interviewing techniques and managing any sensitive questions/concerns to help you communicate your business value and generate job offers.
- Advising in negotiating salary, benefits and an employment agreement with a severance package.
Ongoing guidance and support throughout your campaign to keep you motivated and on track to reach your goal as quickly as possible.
- Follow-up coaching after starting your new position to develop a program for effective career management, including managing political, organizational and related issues.
To learn more about this service and how it can benefit your career, call us at 860-623-9476 or click here to email us.
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Individual Coaching Sessions to Meet Your Needs
Do you have a specific coaching need such as enhancing your interviewing or negotiation skills? If so, 30-minute and hourly coaching sessions are offered. Just call us at 860-623-9476 or email us to schedule a coaching session.
We're here to help in any of these areas and more:
- Preparing to answer the top 5 killer interview questions
- Evaluating your next employer with the right questions to ask
- Developing your couple minute profile with success stories that illustrate your value
- Taking your interview to the next step with key follow-up strategies
- Knowing when and how to negotiate the optimal compensation package for your market worth
- Getting offer letters -- don't accept a job without one
- Researching hard-to-find employers and changing industries
- Attracting the attention of your target recruiters
- Increasing your response rate to advertised postions
- and more
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Career Action Plan Session
Our Career Action Plan session is designed to laser in on the root of any career or job search problem and provide a concrete plan to fix it. It usually takes about 90 minutes—and it will give you specific action steps you can take to “get unstuck”. Some people may want more help, and others will be off and running on their own. Either way, you will get into action—you won't be stuck any more. Why spend any more time in a job you don't enjoy.
Who can we help? They include:
- Successful people wondering what's next.
- People who've lost or quit their jobs and are looking for another one.
- People who are returning to work after being at home.
- People who want more money, but feel stuck in their current situation.
- People [wasting their time and frustrated] answering ads or sending out resumes to no avail.
If you are in career pain, call us at 860-623-9476 or email us today to schedule a Career Action Plan Session—and take the first step to put your career back on track.
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e-Job Search Guide Exclusively for Executives and Managers
Are you overwhelmed and unsure where to begin with your search? Have you been out of the marketplace for a number of years and unfamiliar with effective search strategies for your background? Too little time to create a written marketing plan for your campaign?
If your answer to any of the above is yes, we have the solution. We create written search plans that include our 10-point strategy recommendations customized to your career target, background and situation.
During an initial consultation, we will discuss your goals, geographic preferences and other factors prior to developing your e-Guide of our recommended search strategies and resources for your level and needs.
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Career
Directions, LLC
Connecticut
Office: 860-623-9476
Fax: 860-623-9473
email
Career Directions
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