Professional Resumes 

Professional Resumes – the reason it pays to polish your professional image and maximise your chance of success!

Resumes in the 21st Century are simply the single most important marketing document you will ever own, and are targeted toward a specific job to maximise your chance of success, as a recruiter needs to be able to immediately place you in their role with information relevant to the job they are recruiting for, so a generic one size fits all doesn’t cut it today.

Ask yourself:

  • Is my resume and cover letter generating interviews?
  • Do I know how to stand out from the others?
  • Does my cover letter introduce me well?
  • Does it highlight specific strengths that fit the job I am applying for?
  • Do I need a powerful resume to make a career change?
  • Do I need a custom-written resume that generates top results and interviews?
  • How long has it been since my Resume was first created?
  • Have I just tweaked it for years along the way?
  • Has my Resume got current content, or has it been the same for years?
  • Is my current Resume style still relevant or is it stuck in the last century?
  • Did I just create something to “make do”?
  • Did my aunt’s next door neigbour’s cousin’s sister-in-law “knock one together” for me?


Professionally developed high-performance resumes and cover letters can dramatically increase your chances of getting interviews.

Never underestimate the influential power of a professionally written resume. It is a powerful marketing tool that successfully competes against other applicants and maximises (not guarantees) your chance of success.

Without a professional resume with a contemporary format you will limit your chances of obtaining and interview. 

And by the way, a contemporary format is NOT filled with fancy columns, pictures, graphics, fancy headings and borders, or anything that you see online – please, please, please do not fall for downloading a Resume of the internet.  Why?

  • Firstly it is an American format which is not acceptable in Australia as does not fully address the content depth that is required  
  • Secondly, when when the AI recruitment system tries to reads it, the fancy “back end” coding in your document jumbles it up and it is left garbled, mangled and indecipherable, like you’ve sent it after a hard night out on the town  
  • Lastly, the recruitment team then have to try and make sense of it and retype it…let me just say that your name by that point is M-U-D

Just a note – like anything in life, you get what you pay for, so if you are price hunting rather than expert and quality hunting, then you need to re-think your strategy.  

If you are not successfully gaining interviews, it is time to book a Professional Resume service – these are hand-crafted, customised and words-smithed documents that market and highlight you to your best advantage. 

Please Note:  As a Professional Resume is uniquely written for you, “samples” of other people’s Resumes are strictly private and confidential, and are not provided to aid your decision making – ever!

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Anne McDowell Consulting

Anne is also known as: the positivity and transformation specialist

A Mindset Coach across mindset, change and resilience.
She helps people to positively transform their thinking to cope with, get through, and bounce back from tough situations.
She does this through: one-to-one coaching, and digital coaching (podcasts supercharged with visual content)