Your resume will cause a potential employer to decide, in a matter of seconds, whether they will be calling you for an interview, or filing you away forever.

Your resume is the most crucial step in determining whether you will have complete mastery over your job search and career growth, or if you will be just a pawn in the employment game.

We believe that if you have a dream job, a goal of promotion, or a higher salary target, then all you need is the strategic plan, and the tailored, professional resume, to make it happen.

Through our award-winning expertise and individually tailored resume writing, we have assisted thousands of clients, from Executives to New Grads, in landing new positions within weeks and sometimes days of working with our company.

In fact, our clients are documented for averaging three positive responses for five to seven resumes mailed, faxed or delivered. Take a look at just a few of our success stories.

At A Competitive Edge, you will always work one-on-one with a highly credentialed, award-winning and certified professional resume writer and career coach. Someone who knows what it takes to make you succeed on paper in the resume as well as in the job market. Review our credentials to learn why we are the best choice for creating a tailored and effective resume for you.

We know that to SELL you in your resume, we have to get to KNOW you, your strengths, and your accomplishments. Therefore, at A Competitive Edge, you will never find resume templates, resume questionnaires, or worn out and dated resume formats.

Instead we provide each of our clients with the professional service needed to cultivate the valuable accomplishments and experience necessary to create a powerful resume.

NEW RESUME PRICING AND RESUME RESTRUCTURING IS DEPENDENT UPON THE SCOPE OF YOUR UNIQUE PROJECT! We have assisted clients on new projects ranging from $295 - $1000. Updates and restructuring begins at $75.

Use our Free Critique / Quote. Just provide us with your personal information for an exact quote, critique of an existing resume or to determine which level of resume is right for you.

We work with clients at all levels, and have a targeted service to meet your needs.

All new Resume Development projects include a personal interview, research, writing, fine tuning, 20 laser printed copies on executive linen paper, 20 matching envelopes, and a disk with files in Word 2000, Word 97, ASCII Text with Line Breaks and ASCII Text.

We also offer discounted Success Packages for each level to help you prepare to meet the needs of your job search. See details below.

If you have seen an ASCII Text Resume, then you know that it is just plain ugly and lacks any and all of the marketing strategy we have worked so hard to gain in the resume. Now you have an option which will allow you to achieve maximum visual impact in the plain text environment of Internet resume distribution.

Web Portfolios provide you with:

Career Web Portfolios represent a new era in job search marketing. They allows you to leverage Internet technology in your job search and your resume to increase your impact and presentation throughout the entire job search, interviewing and follow up process.

See a sample Web Resume:

This new service will be beneficial to you if you:

• Have a terrific resume that you email to appropriate job openings, but you are getting little to no response.

• Wonder if employers look at email resume attachments when there are current virus scares.

• Wish there was a better looking alternative to the plain text resume.

• Struggle to say everything you want to in your resume with only two pages.

• Need a way to send employers additional information beyond the resume without it appearing overwhelming.

• Want to appear more technically sophisticated when it comes to technology.

• Wish telephone interviews provided a way to stand out more from competition.

• Worry that your extremely quantifiable achievements are lost in your resume.

• Think you had a great interview but then never received a response.

• Feel you could have increased the salary offer with stronger closing pitch.

• Suffer from communication barriers or nervousness that can make job search / networking, interviewing and negotiation more frustrating.

• Perform extensive networking and could benefit from additional marketing tools to build recognition with your prospects.

• Dread the seeming unfairness of the job search and interviewing process.

That’s a lot of issues for a job seeker to struggle with, but yet they are common elements of the process! While any and all of your challenges can be addressed and improved upon through one-on-one strategy coaching with A Competitive Edge, we now offer a unique tool for your arsenal of career weaponry called a “Career Web Portfolio”.

In form, a Career Web Portfolio is a personal web site complete with home page, contact information, resume and other customized, high-impact job search marketing tools such as:

• Letters of recommendation (or quotes) from prior employers.

• Charts or graphs depicting your quantifiable achievements / improvements.

• Detailed challenges and the requisite actions taken and results achieved.

• Photos or graphics of projects, awards, or applied models used, etc.

• Abstracts of published articles.

• Flow charts of career progress / goal mastery.

• Extensive lists of specialized training.

• Personal philosophy, strengths, skills.

… and much more.

With a Career Web Portfolio, the sky is virtually the limit for what you can do to visually show your prospective employer your value. Consider that studies by psychologists have proven that people remember up to 11% of what they read, up to 20% of what they hear and up to 52% of what they hear and see. Therefore, you can dramatically increase your results by integrating a web portfolio which furnishes high-impact visual personal marketing materials.

So how can one little tool offer such immense value that it can impact all the big problems listed earlier? Because:

The Career Web Portfolio is Unique:

It Sells You;

It Goes places a regular resume just cannot go;

It Creates a Memorable Impression;

It Furnishes Visual Impact at the times you need it most.

Click here to visit our Web Portfolio service site

CareerFolio Portfolios provide you with:

Dynamic, professionally designed layouts.

See some of our sample CareerFolio layouts:

It is necessary to have an existing resume or to purchase resume services in order to create a Web Resume of ASCII Text Resume.

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