Happy New Year 2012!

The New Year often presents business changes, shifts and reorganizations.  New opportunities may be on the horizon, are you ready for them?  Do you have a new/updated resume that is a true reflection of you are, your experiences, attributes, competencies, wins, accomplishments, and strengths?  You have 30 seconds to capture and hold the reader’s attention.  Does your resume truly and accurately reflect who you are with punch and strength in content?

Writing a resume or updating an old one may cause some moments of intimidation and stress.

What is important, what to include, is it too much or too little?

Your resume is a marketing tool, you are the product.  It is a brochure of who you are, what you do and what you deliver.  Please take the time and make the investment in you.

You are marketing yourself through your resume with the goal and intent of securing an interview, not a job.   Allow me the opportunity to partner with you, to provide you with a clear and precise resume that is a true reflection of who you are.

Please contact me for an individual assessment and services package costs.

Happy New Year – Cheers to your success!
Vita

V.I.B.E.S.

Vintage Individual Branding Executive Services is the professional services arm of Vintage Recruiting providing resume design and build, marketing and branding strategy development, career coaching and interview preparation.

Today’s candidate playing field ~ prepare yourself to go to market before you begin looking for a new professional opportunity.

In today’s economic landscape, the talent pool is rich and deep for Companies to choose from.  Competition is fierce, the playing field crowded.  It has never been more important to ensure that you present yourself accurately, displaying clearly and immediately your strengths, experience and accomplishments.  There is no room for misrepresentation, an average resume, or an unprofessional profile of who you are and what your value add is.  Providing a professional, clear, detailed and comprehensive profile of your worth to a future employer will set you apart from the pack.  Vintage Recruiting provides in-depth resume design and construction for those wanting to present above others.   Individual consulting, architecture, build and delivery, collaborating with you to ensure your first impression on paper, with detail and depth is truly a best impression. 

The qualifying and interviewing for opportunities today often present  a case of apple vs. apple when it comes down to the candidate’s qualifications and experiences – what will set you apart from Joe or Jane Smith?

Who are you?  What do you offer?  What is your value add?  Why YOU?

How have you prepared yourself to go to market before you begin the search for a new professional opportunity?

What is your brand? How have you separated yourself from the pack?

Have you made your abilities, qualifications, personality, expertise, accomplishments and experiences clear and do you present your highest value to Organizations?

Resume’s

“No-no’s” -  What NOT to have on your resume. 

Stay from open-ended statements – generics – vanilla phrases – or leaving the reader with more questions than answers. 

Some “yuck” terms.

Results-oriented professional

1. People person
2. Superior (or excellent) communication skills
3. Strong work ethic
4. Met or exceeded expectations
5. Proven track record of success
6. Works well with all levels of staff
7. Team player

We can do better!

Add a human voice – personality – style.  It may be the intangible - the YOU that separates you from the pack. 

Email Vita@VintageRecruiting for more information and individual assessment.

Vintage Recruiting

With over 13 years experience in Sales Recruitment, Vintage Recruiting, a nationwide recruitment Firm specializes in Sales and Sales Leadership Recruitment for IT Software Companies, with emphasis in the Storage and Security space.

Vintage Recruiting partners with Companies in the SMB, pre-IPO and VC backed community, building and growing their sales organizations. 

Vintage Recruiting builds and maintains long standing relationships with Candidates and Clients by implementing a business philosophy of listening, working hard, creating the activity and delivering results.

Vintage Recruiting continues to grow its talent pool of high caliber sales candidates with steady incoming referrals and recommendations.

We learn about your Company, ask questions, listen to the needs and wants you require and desire for the position and work through our candidate relationship base to deliver that “right” candidate to you.

Clients working directly with Vintage Recruiting will expedite and streamline their recruitment and staffing goals and their hiring time line initiatives.