Manager Tools Resume Review Service
We have created our resume service to help you create an effective resume. We see HUNDREDS of resumes a month, and we are regularly disappointed that the document does a poor job of capturing the successes and capabilities of qualified managers and professionals. We don’t want that to happen to you.
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Price: $50 US - That’s a LOT less than other places, but we want everyone to be able to afford our work. We know there are services that will re-write your resume for $700, but that is silly to us. We’ve provided in our podcasts the way we know the vast majority of recruiters and managers want resumes: one page, reverse chronological, responsibilities and accomplishments. You don’t need us to re-write yours for you. Just follow our guidance, and we’ll help you ensure it’s excellent with our review. You can find our original podcast with all the instructions on the Your Resume Stinks! podcast.
Timing: You’ll get your review back within 96 business hours. Based on our analysis, that’s fast.
What You Get: A detailed analysis of your resume against our recommended format. Here are the factors we look at. These are the guidelines we use for every resume, taken right from the PDF document you’ll get after our review.
Contact Details: What we look for - Name, home address, non-work contact numbers, and professional email address. Name should be on its own line, in bold and centered. Address, contact numbers and email address on the next line. If you include your website address, we check it for relevance to the role you’re carrying out, and the impression it leaves. For the majority of managers, we do not recommend including a website address.
Employment History: What we look for - Month and year included, in bold and underlined flush with the left margin. Job titles which are meaningful to your industry.
Responsibilities: What we look for - A summary of the impact of your role to the organization. An accurate description of your job title. We recommend every sentence starts with an action verb such as created, managed or completed. This paragraph should closely resemble your job description and would be true of anyone who carried out this role. Include comments to allow the recruiter to understand your role relative to others such as the scope of responsibilities, management of others, size of the organization supported, input or responsibility for budgets, training, income and/or cost reduction. Review your responsibilities carefully to make sure they are not achievements. Attempting to find previous performance reviews and job descriptions can make this easier.
Accomplishments: What we look for - Each role should have 3-6 bullets, with more for increasing responsibility or relevance to the role sought. They should be personal accomplishments, on one line with metrics, in the format: Action verb, result achieved, method used. Most relevant to the role sought first. A range of accomplishments.
Education: What we look for - Your degree in the format: Degree title, university, graduating year. For non-university education - relevance to role sought. We recommend any formal completed or close to completed college education is included.
Spelling, grammar, punctuation: What we look for - perfection. No mistakes. Clarity of meaning.
Career History: What we look for - your career history tells a story, for example of increasing responsibility, or similar roles in different industries. We can understand from your resume why you applied for this role and why you moved between companies previously. You cannot change your history to hide disconnects, but creating your resume can highlight them and allow you to prepare to answer questions about them in interviews.
Manager Tools Guarantee: If you’re not satisfied, for any reason, we’ll refund your money. Just like all our other services.
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May 22nd, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Help
I tried buying this for the UK - seems like
1. UK postcodes are not accepted and I must enter an American state…
2. you are not using Paypal for the CV resume service - unusual given that the annual membership can be purchased via paypal
Thanks
Anandha
May 26th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Sorry, false alarm, i was able to get it to work.. (user error), thanks, Anandha
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:42 am
A podcast from a few weeks ago on resumes explicitly stated that it was foolish to pay for a resume review service. How is offering this service on your website consistent with that prior statement?
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:55 am
JJobrien-
We actually said you shouldn’t pay someone to create your resume for you. We don’t do that. Our podcast on how to create a resume is free, and we provide a detailed sample that thousands have followed.
Resume creation services cost hundreds of dollars, and don’t know your background well enough to create a resume - they’re just “writing” it.
Ours is fifty bucks.
Please feel free to not use our service.
Mark
June 18th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Do any of the users of the service have some feedback for the rest of us?
Happy with the results?
Andrew
June 18th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Check this thread:
http://www.manager-tools.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3107
John
June 26th, 2008 at 8:48 am
I have submitted my request for resume review. Sorry, it took while to use this service.
The US state name appears even when We chose India as country as well as accepting for only 5 digit zip code.(We have 6 digits)
Karthik
Bangalore.
June 26th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Thanks, Karthik. I’ll look into that.
Best Regards,
Mike
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:42 am
BLUF: Great value add. Satisfied.
I have received the reviewed resume from Wendii this morning. Her observations and value adds are very significant. She had gone through my resume in detail and has comments on spacing, content as well as fully explaining why aspects of what needs to be done to improve the resume. Not only that, she had also suggested how to rephrase some of the achievements, responsibility to have less of distractions. I had included some personal details which are a must in this part of the world which wont be required if and when applying for international positions. (Wendii herself as commented that the review is done with more of US/UK scope, but the format can become common across the world)
Of course I had already tailored most of my content as indicated my Mike and Mark in their podcast (One page, less white space)so the changes wont be sweeping. It is more of trimming down and rephrasing. But if you have not done that, and had sent a 2 or 3 page resume,it will be a mind blowing experience when you receive comments.
Overall, worth spending the 50$.
Karthik
Bangalore.
July 4th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
For anyone considering this service, I can highly recommend it! It’s worth well over the $50 that you pay for it.
Don’t expect them to do all the work for you, it is a review of your current resume. They teach you to how to fish, not give them too you - which is much more effective for your own ongoing development of your resume and “living document”.
I recommend people listen carefully and follow these pod-casts before submitting their resumes:
- Your Resume Stinks!
- Resume review 2008
- Accomplishments - Connecting Resumes and Interviews
(you will get more out of the service if you’ve followed their teachings from these casts)
I also submitted my resume for a free re-review, having made the suggested alterations. The received a reply was within just a few days and was also quite detailed.
5 stars guys.