Specialty Area - Writing Personal Statements for post-undergraduate programs and medical professionals:

A statement of purpose or personal statement is necessary in specialized areas of medical internship, residency, and fellowship. They can also become necessary to enter graduate programs, i.e., MBA programs. A well written personal statement addresses background and future goals; it sets out the unique qualities that you can bring to a program; it sets out the strengths you have that are necessary to the specialty area.

The Personal Statement is combined with a CV to detail a background to support the intended position. For the US Residency Match Program, the Personal Statement is enough, because The Match will provide questions to be answered that cover what is necessary for a CV.

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Top Employers for new grads:

Although this section is for those who are ready to move up the ladder-- following the first job. I thought you might be interested in this list, just in case you were coming to this web site and have had trouble finding employment after college. Also, these are still people who may well be interested in your qualifications -- check them out.

Posted to web site: Aug 2006

Top 20 Employers for New Grads: Organizations reporting the largest numbers of jobs that they plan to fill with new college graduates in 2006:

Employers Number of Jobs
Enterprise Rent-A-Car 7,000
Lockheed Martin 4,400
Walgreen Co. 4,300
PricewaterhouseCoopers 3,817
Deloitte & Touche USA 3,500
Ernst & Young 3,400
Schlumberger 3,000
U.S. Department of Agriculture 3,000
Hertz 2,500
U.S. Customs and Border Protection 2,250
KPMG 2,240
Boeing 2,200
Teach for America 2,100
Jos. A. Bank Clothiers 2,000
State Street 2,000
U.S. Marines 2,000
Federal Bureau of Investigation 1,950
84 Lumber 1,600
Intel 1,500
Internal Revenue Service 1,500

 

30+ Careers/A Professional Resume:

After you have completed your first few years with a company and are ready to move on or up the professional ladder, your resume takes on a different look.

For instance, the education drops to the bottom and leaves behind room to write a Profile to market you to the next employer. The Profile is then supported with the Relevant Experience that will come next in the body of the resume.

Much of the information that was on your college resume is at this point eliminated!

Like What?

  • Information about college activities
  • Information about college internship (a few exceptions)
  • Course information
  • GPA unless it is 4.0
  • Part-time or summer jobs.

What Stays?

Now you have cleared away information and have room to develop your present position. Experience, skills sets, and accomplishments grow important.

How To Present Information?

Your main consideration for resume format is do you want to stay in your present industry and grow in responsibility?

or

do you want to make a total career change?

How to do this?

There are two formats to choose:
Chronological - for advancing in your field and industry and
Functional - for switching careers.
Combining Styles - There is a nice use for both, so often we chose to combine the two styles, maintaining the nice structure of the Year-to-date chronological style, but adding special skill sets to gain immediate interest of the employer to select your resume for the candidates to review and place it in Stack A.

Stack A

This is what it is all about - getting to Stack A to be called for interview.

How we help you

It is often very difficult to understand what talents have brought you to the point you are now, and as a matter of fact, will be the strengths that carry you to the next level.

We begin by listening to what you do and how you do it. Gathering this information we write a resume that sets out the How as your strengths.

We also sneak around and find out your Talents. Yes, you have a hard time telling us about this stuff.

Until, however, you've admitted this fascinating side that makes you tick. And then you talk and talk about It. It bubbles out as a matter of fact!

That's what we want to include on the resume and/or cover letter and then your resume files into Stack A which we both know is where you want to be.

The Next Thing We Do

We continue supporting you by helping you with your Internet campaign. We can put you on www.Monster.com/ - a great place we think; develop a Resume Web page; plan an E-mail campaign to recruiters; or place you on your selection of customized sites.

We are experiencing tremendous success with Internet placement that we will share with you.

Ask about e-mail campaigns. Also, see Career Links for good Internet sites.

Don't waste time on your career search.  Get on the Internet for instant visibility.

 

INTERESTING STATS, SITES & "STUFF"

TBA

 

Testimonials

 

Jan 24, 2004

Dear Mary Ann,

Thank you for doing such a great job on my resume. I will definitely refer you to all of my friends. I really feel an advantage going into future interviews with such a well written resume. Also I will be telling my friends they will not only be going to you just to have a great resume written, but also to find strengths about themselves they take for granted. Finding strengths about yourself and being able to talk about them is just as important as a resume.

Thanks again, Dan Brown (Manufacturer's Rep/Distribution Sales-Indiana)

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"Find a great job. Using the resume you wrote, I experienced several new job opportunities and took one with a Finance Firm.. Great Opportunity! I was getting really depressed --- a recent college education and working as a receptionist in a hair salon. Thanks so much!" Denise Aug 2003

"I am writing from Atlanta - teamed up with Pepsi. Love my resume - we'll do it again in a few years. Lost my disc - hope you have it!"
— Al J.

"Just picked wrong the first time around, but you have me flying now. I'm jazzed.
— Barb

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Thanks for stopping by and we hope to hear from you soon.

You will be pleased that you made the investment in yourself and your future career. Because you're worth it!

And we look forward to being part of your transition.

Pricing

Resumes and CV's begin at $270–

Resumes are based on $90 per hour. Personal statements are $270

Cover Letters Begin at $130 (if written as part of resume package). We thoroughly recommend them - they are the heart and soul of the resume!!

Internet placement starts at $45.



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