That’s a Good Question!

By Soozy G. Miller, CPRW, CDCC, CDP

“Yes, I see how important the process is! The questions you ask are very good.”

A client said this to me.

This client, a project management executive, had been burned before by another resume writer. The previous writer didn’t ask him any questions, and according to him some of the statements in his resume were actually made up and false. So he didn’t trust me at the beginning, which is totally understandable.

But then, when he was working on the questionnaire that I sent him, he started to appreciate the process with me. That’s when he made the above comment.

You can’t ask for a higher salary or a promotion using passion, longevity, and hard work as your proof of why you deserve more money.

You can’t ask for the top number in a salary range when negotiating your contract using your skills and experience as proof of why you deserve that number.

Why not?

Because all of your competition for any given job is using these tactics as proof, which means everyone looks the same to the recruiter and hiring team. You need to dig deeper.

Knowing that passion, hard work, skills, and experience don’t work, I collaborate with you to dig down to details of impact to prove why you deserve what you think you deserve. We accomplish this using a variety of tools, the first of which is that aforementioned questionnaire that takes some time, but it will be time well spent.

“Yes, I see how important the process is! The questions you ask are very good.”

Sometimes the process becomes enjoyable because we’re bringing out your strengths and your proof of expertise. Who doesn’t want that?

Together we’ll bring forth information that you never considered before, and you’ll understand more about how to present your strengths so that your strengths matter to the company.

And you will use this information to get what you deserve until you don’t want to work anymore.

All you have to do is answer some very good questions.

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Better job. More pay. More control.

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