Resumes With Spirit

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Resumes with Spirit
Professional Resumes * * * Career Coaching * * * Interview and Job Search Coaching
We partner with you to create resumes that capture your unique Spirit at work - your contributions, skills and accomplishments. After working with hundreds of clients, we find that people are able to identify their duties and responsibilities but have more difficulty identifying their accomplishments. Through targeted and sensitive interviewing, we help you identify not only your accomplishments but also what stirs your Spirit about work - what fuels your genuine enthusiasm and passion.
We create resumes that:

Job search and interviewing coaching for those actively job searching

Corporate outplacement services to companies downsizing or restructuring

As part of our commitment to community service, we offer a free 2 hour workshop, Creating a Resume that Works for You!, to suburban Chicago nonprofit organizations. Contact us for further information and to schedule a workshop.

We work with you one-on-one, in person or on the telephone, to develop your resume. We do not require that you fill out lengthy questionnaires. Our expertise is asking the right questions to draw from you the highlights of your work accomplishments. We want you actively involved in the development of your resume to assure that your resume reflects your unique personality and Spirit. We find that writing a resume is a process, so we will ask you to spend some time reviewing our work together and contributing additions or revisions.
Prices are determined by individual circumstances, length and complexity of work history and whether or not you have started a resume. Generally our prices range from $100 for an entry level or new graduate resume to $400 for an executive level resume. Reviews and critiques of already completed resumes are billed at an hourly rate and generally require an hour or less of review.
Please call or email us and we will give you a specific quote.
We will begin our work together with a consultation that will take about an hour. In order to prepare, list all your job titles, companies, and work dates. Generally, you will not need to go back further than 12-14 years, unless an earlier experience is particularly relevant to the work you are seeking. Consider with each job what you liked most and least about it. Note if there is anything that stands out in your mind about each position. You may send us your list or your resume draft.
A word of caution: some clients say that they disliked their work and have nothing of note to remember a position by. This is often because the client did not like the circumstances or environment related to that job. Try to separate your work from the environment you were working in and consider again, what you liked about the work itself.
After our initial consultation, we will work on your resume and may ask you to consider further questions about individual positions. We will arrange a second consultation to edit and revise your resume. Based on this consultation, you will be sent a draft to finalize and accept.

We offer individual career coaching to help you obtain clarity about your career direction. Call or email to arrange a complimentary session to explore your needs and what we can offer.
An advantage of our service is that once you decide on your direction, we can design a resume built on your transferable skills that will help position you for entry into the field of your choice.
JOB SEARCH AND INTERVIEW COACHING

We offer job search coaching tailored to your specific needs. We can help you devise a job search strategy that is effective and that works for you.
Clients say that interview coaching is particularly helpful and that it is much more valuable to have "live" help rather than tips they have read in books or on the Net. In typical interview sessions, client are coached in answering interview questions such as "Tell me about yourself", "What is your greatest weakness?", "What are your salary expectations?", and "Where do you see yourself in five years?". After one session, clients report feeling more confident about their interviewing skills.