Resumes That Influence …
for Forward-Thinking Career Contenders
WHAT DO WE DO?
We carve your career chronicle from scratch.
- Our specialty: Professional and Executive Resume Writing and career positioning documents. We write for individuals who are either in the throes of career transition, have a desire to shift career gears or simply wish to be equipped for that next great opportunity.
- In addition to resumes, we compose cover letters, biographies, leadership addenda, LinkedIn and Twitter profiles, executive and professional summaries, power statements … and more. The benefits we provide are multifold, including a laser-targeted, highly customized and future-focused approach to resume writing, job search and interviewing strategy.
- In addition to the intrinsic career and interview coaching that we weave into our in-depth processes, when needed, we also offer referrals to more advanced career coaching and job searching strategists and resources.
WHY CHOOSE US? (WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT?)
- Our methodology is ‘not just building a resume’ – it is creating a marketing/communications campaign you will use throughout your sales initiative. This Mar/Com distinguishes your value proposition, building action-inducing career content that compels the reader (recruiter, hiring manager, human resources professional, networking contact, etc.) to lift the phone and call you.
- Our approach is an intimately in-depth, nuanced story-telling strategy that draws attention, lands interviews and continues working well beyond the initial phone call and deep into the interview process.
- Our intention is to thoroughly get to know you via tailored worksheets (yes, our clients ‘roll up their sleeves’ and get involved, and thank us later for requiring this of them!) and one-on-one interviews that unearth your unique value drivers. We treat you as ‘exclusive’ developing singularly articulated value language.
- Moreover, individuals who work with us repeatedly express that the deep, consultative processes we move them through spur their career discovery and help them pave new career pathways.
- Although some resume services funnel client relationships to a cadre of junior writers, at Career Trend you’ll partner directly with Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter, fourth in the world to earn the Master Resume Writer credential and president of Career Trend since 1998. Moreover, her deep-dive experience and training in career reporting – asking the probing questions — combined with her Bachelor’s degree in Writing, allows her to unleash just the right words on your tailored virtual page versus producing another in a long line of me-too, look-alike resumes.
- Jacqui’s industry footprint includes boards of director and membership roles in major career and human resources organizations such as Career Management Alliance and Professional Association of Resume Writers and Career Coaches, contributor role for multiple print and online careers publications and executive resume writer team member participant for ExecuNet, among many other affiliations and volunteer roles.
