Your resume is essential for any career change. It is the one document that convinces a prospective employer to invite you for an interview. Bettie Biehn will work with you to craft a unique resume, one that highlights your relevant skills, experience, education and abilities, puts forth your strengths that address a future employer’s needs, and is clean, clear, concise, accurate, well-written, grammatically correct, and readable.

As a first step towards creating the best resume for you, Bettie will thoroughly review all materials you provide (past resumes, CVs, accomplishments, articles, clips) and ask in-depth questions about your career goals to determine the format, structure, content, tone and wording of your resume. You should be pleased with your completed resume, and it should be a true and clear reflection of YOU.

You want to make your best presentation the first time, and a well-done resume helps you do just that.

Your final resume may have a functional or chronological format, or a combination of both. Bettie will discuss the best and most appropriate resume type for you after examining your work history, experience level, number of industries worked, gaps in employment, and areas to emphasize (or not!). You and Bettie will decide at the beginning what works best.

Bettie’s philosophy on resumes is “get the good stuff up front”. She believes that candidates need to put their best skills, abilities, talents, achievements first, followed by backup data. By highlighting strengths in the beginning – in a skill summary, a career overview, a listing of achievements – anyone reading the resume will not have to search for key selling points.

Bettie speaks from experience when she says “if a prospective employer has to spend too much valuable time looking for a candidate’s best points, it’s doubtful that the candidate will make the first cut.”

Bettie’s analytical and research skills, combined with her ability to build rapport with her clients, leads to an excellent end product – YOUR RESUME.

“In my experience, contractors tend to be EITHER personable or professional, but almost never both. I can't count how many times I've REALLY liked someone I've hired, only to find that the work they performed was subpar, or conversely been very happy with someone's output, but so put off by their demeanor that I vow never to work with them regardless. And then, thankfully, there are people like Bettie. Bettie Biehn has unmatched skills for resume and cover letter creation, and she packages that skill around a warm and caring personality that makes you feel that your success is irrevocably tied to hers. Before one word is typed on your behalf, she takes the time to ensure that she understands who you are, what you do, and how you want your career to progress. And once she starts writing, she'll keep going until you are thrilled with the results. My final invoice was paid to her months ago, yet she still checks in with my progress, and she is still ready and willing to write a cover letter on my behalf when the need arises. Resumes are, at their core, an intimate thing. They lay bare the sum total of who you are as a professional, and express your hopes and dreams for your future. Something this important should be only be handed to someone who is great at what they do, and cares to give you their very best each and every time. In Bettie, you get the whole package.” — CF