Looking for a job can be one of the most frustrating and intimidating processes any of us ever endure. You scan help wanted ads, search online job boards, and network with friends and business acquaintances. You send resume after resume in response to promising job postings. And you wait, and wonder.

Sometimes you receive a polite, non-committal response acknowledging receipt of your resume with a promise to keep it on file for some period of time. Other times you don’t even receive the courtesy of a response at all. It feels as if you’re throwing your resume into a black hole.

Wouldn’t you like to know what’s happening inside that company? What happens to your resume? Does anyone even read it? And most of all, why don’t you ever get a call?

Writing It Right For You (WIRFY) Senior Writer Allan Brauer is here to help.

Allan has worked as a recruiter for several large corporations and earned the SPHR (Senior Professional in Human Resources) certification from the Society for Human Resources Management. He has written and posted countless help wanted ads, reviewed thousands of resumes, interviewed thousands of candidates, and recommended the best qualified for further interviews with hiring managers. He has also trained hundreds of hiring managers on interviewing skills and techniques as well as legal considerations in hiring and selection. His experience in this critical role — the gatekeeper to a company’s hiring process — informs his approach to writing resumes and cover letters that will show your skills, interests and capabilities in the most favorable light.

No matter who you are, no matter at what stage in your career you now find yourself, you will benefit from the insight and experience of an objective third party in crafting your resume and cover letter.

WIRFY offers a variety of packages at different price points that are designed to make your career search better informed, better targeted, and more effective.

Perhaps all you need is a Simple Resume Review and Revision. Allan will review your resume and incorporate any additional information you provide in writing into a draft for your review. Once you are satisfied with the content, he will provide you with a clean master version of your resume in Word formatted to your preference, as well as a plain-text version that is easily uploaded or copied into the online application systems favored by many companies.

However, in order to truly benefit from Allan’s expertise and insight, we recommend that you consider one of his more substantial service packages and partner with him as your career guidance counselor and coach.

For Recent Grads/Limited Work Experience, Allan will spend time talking with you one-on-one via telephone at your convenience. He’ll guide you through a conversation intended to draw out your interests, aptitudes, likes and dislikes, and help you identify your strongest selling points to prospective employers. He’ll work from any existing resume you may have to develop a resume and cover letter that truly reflects your talents, experience and goals.

For those Professionals who are further along their career path, Allan’s services include all the above, as well as additional conversations with you to help you better focus your job-search on positions, industries and companies where you will be most competitive as a candidate. He will help you develop winning “positioning statements”, which are concise and carefully worded ways to convey your strengths and weaknesses, and to address areas in your work history that can be problematic to discuss, such as extended employment gaps. And he’ll share insights on what employers are looking for in interviews, and provide you with coaching on winning interview strategies.

Allan’s Executive/Senior Management package provides the ultimate in customized and individual career coaching and assistance. In addition to the services offered at the Professional level, Allan will partner with you for up to three months of ongoing consultative career services. He will review specific job openings with you and help you decode the language of the posting so that you have greater clarity about how well the job fits your background and experience. He will also perform background research on the industries and companies you are targeting to provide you with helpful insight into their corporate cultures. After coaching you on interviewing skills and techniques, Allan will also schedule and perform a mock telephone interview with you to evaluate your performance and offer you objective feedback and advice. He will also customize your resume and cover letter as often as needed to give it a competitive edge in response to a specific job.

Contact us today for more information on these services and prices. Allan looks forward to helping you present yourself more professionally to prospective employers. Please note: WIRFY cannot guarantee that our services will result in you landing a job; however, we promise that you will feel better prepared and more confident as you continue your career search as a result of our services.