FAQs About Our Executive Resume Writing & Career Marketing Services

The service offerings on this site are the culmination of more than 25 years of successful experience. During this time, I have been privileged to work with thousands of executives, professionals, and leaders all across the U.S. and worldwide in developing their resumes and other career marketing documents.

I launched these offerings because of my ongoing dedication and commitment to delivering unparalleled service and quality to my clients. As demand for my services as an executive resume writer and career marketing strategist grew to far exceed the time available, a new model for delivery of my services to you was essential. The service offerings on this site were born of that need and provide me with a way to deliver dedicated, personal attention to a very select number of clients.

Today, the offerings you will find on this site are the ONLY way to work with me one-on-one.

That’s right. Because it takes time, collaboration, and intense attention to quality and detail to create truly compelling, powerful, results-generating executive and professional career marketing portfolios, I make certain that I give you – and you exclusively – all of the time and attention you need.

When you hire me you benefit from not only my preeminent experience and expertise but from my exclusive, personal attention focused only on you and the creation of your career marketing portfolio. I would be honored to work with you. But my schedule fills up very quickly, so if you are ready, please reserve your spot today. Of course, if you have any questions, I will be happy to answer them. Just send a quick email, book a free introductory consultation, or give my office a call. 800-644-9694

If you have spent even a minimal amount of time comparing various resume writing and career marketing firms, you have almost certainly recognized a major problem.

The business models employed by nearly all professional resume writing firms rely on one common factor: volume. No matter whether the company is a privately owned practice or is one of the large chain firms, their goal is the same: to drive as much business in the door as possible.

Unfortunately, this volume model is the cause of many problems, especially for the DISCRIMINATING PROFESSIONAL who expects FIRST-RATE SERVICE.

When you work with a private practice, you may get lucky and be paired with the firm’s principal, but you always know that you are just one of many. Your work with the writer is rushed to make time for the next client, quality may suffer, and your needs are never fully satisfied.

Working with a large firm can be an experience that is even more trying. These big-budget, high-volume firms often employ a large staff of freelance writers. But turnover is high, the writers very often have questionable credentials and very little experience, and you have no say in who you are paired to work with. Again, your needs are never fully satisfied.

As an executive, you deserve better than this. You NEED more than this. The demands on you in the job market are much more complex than those of the average worker!

You need a skilled partner and expert in executive career marketing; someone who will WORK WITH YOU EXCLUSIVELY, ONE-ON-ONE to create a dynamic portfolio of personal marketing documents that fully and accurately reflect your brand and your unique value proposition.

Someone who is a MASTER in her craft – a deeply experienced, PROVEN expert in developing personal executive marketing documents that build competitive advantage and drive results in the executive job market.

But most importantly, someone who is absolutely dedicated to providing you with exclusive, one-on-one service and all the marketing tools you will need to conduct a fast, effective, multi-pronged search to out-compete and WIN in the executive job market.

With more than a decade of experience writing resumes for thousands of professionals, senior managers, and executives – Directors, Vice Presidents, Presidents, CEOs, COOs, CIOs, CFOs and more – I am the career marketing partner you seek.

Because I am absolutely committed to providing service excellence and producing resumes and other career marketing documents, tools, and solutions that generate extraordinary results, I no longer work one-on-one except with a very select number of executives and professionals.

No problem! In fact, the best time to have your executive career portfolio developed is before you need it.

I am so confident in my services that I offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee. If you follow through with the project and are not completely satisfied with the quality of my services and the deliverables I have prepared for you, just request a refund within seven days of receiving the proofs.

However - when you book my services, you are asking me to make a big commitment to you - essentially setting aside an entire week of my time to focus solely on your project. In return I ask you to make a commitment to me. Your payment is a RETAINER for my services and is not refundable simply because you change your mind or don't follow through with your part of the project (gathering the information I ask for). I don't want to scare you! This has never been a problem, and I certainly don't anticipate it will be one. I just want to be certain that you understand there is a commitment involved.

My process combines intake worksheets with telephone interviews. I will have you complete an intake worksheet that I developed and have been refining for the past 25+ years. This is approximately 12 pages long and will likely take you several hours to complete. Many of my clients have reported that this worksheet process is an extremely valuable one in that it helps them to focus and think about their career and achievements in new ways. I've found that I get much more complete and accurate information when clients have the opportunity to sit with the questions, go away and think about them, do research - all on their own timetable - rather than being on the spot to answer them in a phone interview. But once the worksheet is complete and submitted to me, I will be in touch with you by telephone, to go over areas that aren't quite clear to me and to probe for more detail when necessary.

Probably. Just discuss your needs with me and we might decide together to substitute it for one of the other documents on the list of deliverables. However, it is important for you to know that my primary concern is to meet your needs. Often, while working on a client's portfolio I'll realize that a particular document would be especially helpful to them based on the job search strategies that we've discussed. In these cases, its common for me to go above and beyond, creating an extra letter, or an addendum, or a slightly different version of your resume...meeting whatever need it was that I detected.

Absolutely! You can read through many of them by clicking here. You will also find dozens and dozens more referrals on my LinkedIn profile.

Please call to talk with us in person. We will be happy to answer all your questions, discuss your needs, and help you decide if Michelle's services are right for you. 800-644-9694 (Please leave a message if we don't immediately answer and we WILL call you back.) You are also welcome to schedule a free 30-minute introductory consultation.

There are a number of options and payment plans available.

Current pricing and services can always be reviewed here.

Yes! I'm happy to assist you with updating your resume and all the documents that make up your executive portfolio. The vast majority of my clients come back to work with me year after year, benefiting from my support during each step of their careers. I will update all the documents that make up the original portfolio I created for you (e.g., your resume or resumes, biography, value profile, biography, letters, references, etc.) and also your LinkedIn profile.

If you are a past client considering the updating service, PLEASE plan ahead and do not leave it for the last minute. My turnaround for an update project is typically about 15 business days (three weeks). While rush service (within 5 business days) may be available, there is an additional charge and my availability to provide rush service is not guaranteed.

Please call us at 800-644-9694 to learn more.