You may have been told that no job equals no chance, that having a time gap on your resume results in a hopeless future. While unemployment gaps can be tricky to work through, there is still huge potential for a strong resume to be born despite your circumstances.   Maybe your company downsized and rendered your job as nonessential to business. Perhaps you were let go for a careless mistake without room for explanation. Could it be that you found that your passion lies within an entirely different industry, and you quit your job to better equip yourself for the next steps?   Regardless of your reasoning, long periods of joblessness can be puzzling to hiring managers. You don’t want to over emphasize this time gap, yet you don’t want to lie about it. Honesty is always the best policy, and [...]

The groundhog saw his shadow and more winter is yet to come. Sometimes our long and uneventful job search is similar to our long and bleak winter days. Each seems to linger on and on without the brighter tomorrow we had imagined.   Although you may find yourself suffering from job search blues, we’re here to assure you that hope may be closer than you realize. The typical individual in search of a new job may spend weeks upon weeks waiting for the right door of opportunity to open or for that email you’ve been expecting to pop up in your inbox. This waiting game can be grueling, but it can be easier to endure if you know that you’ve taken proper care of all the necessary details.   A hiring manager will spend approximately 7 seconds perusing your resume before [...]

You’ve got Sleepless in Seattle, a tragic yet romantic tale. But how does Jobless in Kansas City play out? Doubtfully romantic and promising to be tragic if you don’t get the right help and quickly. If this is where you find yourself, then there’s no better hope for you than to start building a relationship with the Platinum Resumes team.   One of the premier companies in Kansas City, Platinum Resumes offers our clients a professional boost in their job search and a guarantee for greater results and more interview opportunities. Our talented team has a level of expertise unlike any other, and we work hard to combine our years of experience and gifting to prepare our clients for a better and brighter future than they would have accomplished on their own.   Kansas City is near and dear to our [...]

So…how are your job search efforts going? Is your hard work paying off with new interviews left and right? Or do you feel like you’re aimlessly looking in all of the wrong places? This season can be a tough one and feel like it’s dragging on forever, but if you stay organized and keep improving your game then your efforts are sure to pay off.   You’ve got your resume polished and ready to go, but are you sending it to the right people and posting it in the right places? Many job candidates are familiar with online job boards but do not utilize the resources on a continual basis. Websites like Monster.com, Indeed.com, and Careerbuilder.com were created to help people in job search crisis. You may think such methods are now outdated, but recruiters and hiring managers are combing through [...]

That’s a big FALSE. Cover letters, though a different animal than your resume, are far from a waste of your time. These few short paragraphs speak volumes to potential hiring managers about who you are and what you could bring to the table. The layout and series of word choices of a cover letter will either make or break you when it comes to interviewing potential.   So, if cover letters are still a big deal, how do you write the perfect one? Great question. And, just as there is an art to that of a seamless resume, there is also an art to creating a cover letter that is both colorful and professional. You must say enough without saying too much. You must highlight key points without reiterating your resume word for word. Your cover letter should pave the way [...]

Maybe today’s inauguration has you thinking about change and new beginnings. Many of our clients find themselves in such a place. Square one. Ground zero. Ready to break out of the starting gate and get busy finding an amazing job!   If you are fresh out of school and without much work experience, you may feel behind the pack and ill prepared. Getting off on the right foot is of great importance when it comes to your job search and starting at square one is sometimes beneficial. Since you are inexperienced in searching for a job, then you must start by doing it the right way instead of wasting time and resources by doing it all wrong.   Platinum Resumes is a very powerful tool to have in your corner at this time. We take our clients who are still wet [...]

Most of you are probably familiar with the well known Boy Scout motto, “Be Prepared”. Though many of you will never be stranded in the middle of the forest lacking supplies for survival, you can still glean from this motto. Preparedness is an important tool in all aspects of life, and it’s especially important when it comes to unexpected career changes.   Even if you currently see yourself firmly planted in a secure job, you must be realistic. Sometimes circumstances spin out of control, and we can find ourselves in a situation that we never anticipated.  In the event of such a surprise, wouldn’t it be nice to forge ahead with a steady peace rather than chaotic worry?   It’s important to have your emergency kit ready when it comes to your career. Maybe opportunity will knock softly upon your door [...]

Have you ever been stuck in a rut? Ever dreaded heading into the office each day? Many of us have started out our careers in jobs that fell short of our expectations. We had a desire to get excited about our work but found ourselves, instead, to be bored and unfulfilled.   Thankfully, there were lessons learned and changes made to ensure a greater job satisfaction. Others, though, remain in such a job even today. Instead of enjoying their work, they sit and dream about another career, a role which would keep them excited and challenged in their everyday. Many… our coworkers, our family members, our friends, our neighbors… have settled into a job that they intend to keep yet intend to dislike. Do you find yourself paddling aimlessly in that same boat?   At the start of a new year, [...]

Do you have all of your New Year’s resolutions ready to go? Are you anticipating great change in your life in 2017? For many of us, the coming of a new year brings hope for refining our goals with a new slate of opportunity. We look back over the past year and evaluate what went wrong and what was done well, and we are ready to hone in on specific areas that need to be further developed.   If you are without a job or are looking at making a career change, then it might be time to reevaluate your image. Is there room to amp up your marketing game? Are you representing yourself professionally on social media? Does your interview wardrobe reveal the high caliber candidate that you are?   In order to make your job search truly fruitful in [...]

As you consider gifts for all of your loved ones this Christmas, keep yourself in mind, as well. What is something that you need but feel as though you can’t afford? Something that will truly benefit you and your future rather than simply keep you entertained for a short while.   Giving yourself the gift of a perfect resume this Christmas is one of the smartest decisions that you’ll ever make. Opting for a professional writer to handle your resume promises more results and second glances than you could have ever managed on your own. Enduring a lengthy job search can be a brutal experience, and one should take hold of any available sage advice.   At Platinum Resumes, we assure our clients that our team of professional resume writers have the talent and experience to morph your outdated and mediocre [...]