Here's a business you can start for virtually nothing, parlay into a million dollar enterprise in five years or less. Many established resumé writing services in the large metropolitan areas are reporting annual incomes of $500,000 or more. Even the smaller operations, in towns as small as 15,000 are experiencing sales of $100,000 or more.

No special knowledge, education or experience are required for total success in this business. An awareness of the general format of the "modern resumé," and the ability to keep oneself up-to-date on refinements or new approaches to presenting resumé material are about the only prerequisites to successfully operate a resumé writing service.

Probably the most exciting and motivational aspects of this business idea are the low investment and risk factors involved, and the growing demand for resumé service. Up until the past years, few if any Americans really had to look for jobs. People in general have either forgotten how to look for a new job, or never knew how in the first place.

Since the start of World War II, back in 1941, the American worker has been spoiled by an affluent society and an ideal market for the job seeker. Usually, all they had to do whenever they lost a job or wanted to change jobs was to report in to the local branch of their local employment service office, check in at his union office, look at the want ads in the Sunday paper, or call a few friends and ask about job openings.

But no more! Times have changed! There are fewer jobs and an increasing number of people applying for those jobs that are available. Just recently, the post office department in a large west coast city advertised that applications would be accepted on two days only, for 600 upcoming openings. Would you believe that twenty thousand applicants showed up to fill out applications? Can you imagine the post office personnel people reviewing all those applications, and then interviewing all those people, according to the fair employment practices act?

On another day, word got out that there was going to be an opening for a forklift driver at a local warehouse. Fifteen hundred men and women showed up even before the job was advertised!

Times are tough, and we're moving ever deeper into the age of specialization. Employers are demanding to know more about the applicant - their work record, natural talents and personality traits. They want more information upon which to base their interview selections than just the cold facts on the application form. Personnel managers are placing a higher premium on their time, and delegating to others the job of "weeding out" the unqualified applicants from those whose backgrounds and goals come closest to fitting the needs of the company.

To get in to see the person doing the hiring nowadays, the job applicant has to "sell the short-stopper," and that calls for a professionally written resumé. More and more firms are demanding resumés. Most of the jobs worth having will require a written resumé before even an initial interview is granted. And that's where you can fit into the picture with your Professional Resumé Writing Service. Probably 80 percent of the people searching for jobs don't have a resumé. Of the 20 percent who do have resumés, many are ineffective; they simply do not adequately present the applicant's total qualifications.

Everyone - with or without a resumé - is looking for this key: A professionally written resumé, a sales presentation of their qualifications and experience that will get the job for them - the job they want. The job hunters are wound up in their own specialties and problems. They don't know how, and they don't have the time - AND they're willing to pay you to put it all together for them. Just as you're willing to pay a doctor, dentist or investment broker, those who need a resumé are willing to pay you for this service. The market exists in every city and town in this country, and the demand for this service is growing daily. Your opportunity for success beyond your fondest dreams has never been

greater! The brass ring is here! Grab it, and hold on!

You'll need a computer, professional quality printer. You can begin, with a lower quality printer to start, but do yourself and your business a favor: Arrange to rent, lease or buy on monthly payments if necessary, the best computer and printer for the quality of work that will command top dollars for you.

Setting up and operating from your own home will be the most economical way to begin. In addition to your computer and printer, you should have quality paper, Microsoft Word, and a good resumé creating program, which we give you for free HERE

To prepare yourself properly, invest in a good book on how to write "job-winning" resumés. Select a book or ebook which discusses both the cover letter and the format of the body of the resumé. You can find good ebooks online for a few dollars. You may even find many free articles on the Internet for free that will teach you everything you need to know on how to create a professional resumé. The resumé creating software we give you will give you some great guidance as well.

The most important part of any resumé package is the cover letter the applicant sends as part of the resumé. This letter states the specific job the applicant is applying for, explains why they believes they are qualified, and pointedly asks for an interview. In most cases, you'll be able to provide an "all-purpose form letter" which your client can adapt to any position that interests them. More later about actual writing of the resumé and the cover letter.

The format and style of the body of the resumé are the items you want to learn from your resumé software, book or ebook. Resumés of today generally follow this outline:

1. Name
2. Address
3. City, state, zip.
4. Phone Number
5. Type of job or position wanted
6. Goals and/or desires in life
7. Job history, starting with current or last job held
8. Special courses, education or training completed
9. Military History
10. Formal Education
11. Activities while attending school: athletics, offices, awards
12. Hobbies and special interests
13. Notation that names of business and personal references will be furnished on request.
14. Availability

Once you're organized with space and equipment, you're ready for business. All that's necessary from this point on will be advertising, client interview, and producing the final product.

Your advertising needs, in comparison with many other businesses, need not cost you an exorbitant amount of money. It should, however, be consistent and eye-catching.

You should contact your area's most widely read newspaper and arrange to run a one-column by one inch ad every day for the next six to twelve months. By purchasing your ad space on a daily insertion basis, and over at least a six month period, your rate will be much lower than the rate charged for shorter contracts.

Your newspaper ad might read something like this:

A Complete, Professional Service
MIDWEST RESUME SERVICE
Resumes - Letters - Portfolios
...that result in jobs!
Phone 123-4567

Aside from an ad in the newspaper, and perhaps a similar one in your area shoppers' papers, the only other advertising efforts you should worry about are those that don't cost money - free bulletin board announcements, and low cost flyers, circulars or brochures that describe your services.

Another area to explore for free publicity is as a guest speaker for your civic clubs. For these, simply write out a speech emphasizing the need for a resumé, and the proper way to write one that will result in a job for the job-seeker. Explain the growing trend of employers to use the resumé as a screening device, and the fact that a well-written resume can get a better job for someone when there are seemingly no openings. Don't be afraid to explain what goes into a professionally written resumé. Many of the people listening to you - if you sell them on the idea of a resumé - will come to you to have it written because they don't have the time or know-how, and because you'll have the reputation of an "expert" after having spoken before their club. Basically, people are lazy in this respect, and would rather pay someone else to do something than to take the time to learn how and do it themselves. Once you spread the word that you're in the business of preparing resumés for people looking for work or wanting better jobs, you'll have no trouble at all keeping busy!

Your brochure can be as simple as a Z-folded 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. It should de scribe your services, emphasize your professionalism, fast service and reasonable cost. It would be best to have your story typeset and laid out in three columns down the width of the paper.

You can create e these with Microsoft Word. Once you've had your brochures printed, leave off a supply with your area high school and college counselors, vocational and trade school placement directors, and with as many private employment agencies as will take them.

The BEST way to promote your resumé business is to create a Web log which shows the services you offer. These are free to create through blogger.com. You can use your blog URL address on your fliers and business cards. This will make it easy to speak with potential clients through blog posts and/or email.

Once you have a client, set up an appointment to interview them for background information in order to put together a resumé that can result in a job for them. You can do this by phone or email. Be sure you're prepared with a "researcher's questionnaire," to guide you in the questions to ask.

Type your resumé format on a separate sheet of paper, numbering each question you want an answer to, or subject you want to cover. This of course serves as a "master" which you duplicate and use as the researcher's questionnaire guide.

For each interview, take one of these "interview guides" and an ordinary yellow legal tablet, and start asking questions. Identify each page of notes with a number or subject matter from the resumé format, and use a separate page of the tablet for each subject and each job the client may have had.

The interview should be relaxed, with the client doing most of the talking. However, you should control the interview and take notes as the client gives you the information you need. Be confident, but friendly. Maintain your confidence and ask leading questions that elicit complete, revealing responses. Take your time, and "listen" to what the client isn't telling you as well as what he is telling you. With a bit of practice, you'll be able to find out all there is to know about your client in twenty minutes or less.

Look ahead to the day when you have employees working for you. Develop your interviewing techniques to a state of maximum efficiency for your business, and then record three or four interviews for use in training your employees. You should also reproduce several examples of completed resumés and put them into an instruction book for study by new employees .

After the interview, you need to interpret your notes and type the information into a resumé. This should be easy because you have gathered the details in sequence with your resumé format. Familiarity with format writing style makes the task of putting every-thing into finished form quite simple.

"Don't put a time limit on the amount of time you devote to each client, but once you're organized and established, the interview through the finished resumé shouldn't take more than an hour or two.

After you have the resumé typed, call or email the client in to check it over and approve it. In almost every case, they'll be very favorably impressed and ready to go with anything you suggest.

So, you explain to your client that their resumé will make a more favorable impression on the prospective employer when it is printed on better quality paper. Suggest to them that you have it printed for him on colored "offset" paper instead of ordinary bond. Ivory, tan or blue shades are desirable. For the really expensive-looking resumé, suggest that it be printed on 11 x 17 paper, and then folded in half to make a kind of "book" about the client. You can charge accordingly whether you print it and mail it to them, or they print it out from your doc file if emailed.

The charges for your service should be about $75 for the interview, original resumé, and emailed doc file. If you have to print and mail copies on white bond paper, and a universal cover letter you can charge $100. For colored offset paper, or for 11 x 17 sized sheets, check current prices at your print shop. You should pass those additional costs on to your client, plus a nominal service charge of $5 or so. Also explain to your client that you can up-date or add to their resumé whenever the need arises, and for this service you charge $30, plus the cost of printing as many copies as they require.

Now for the cover letter - probably the most important part of any resume submitted for job consideration. The first thing you ask your client regarding the cover letter is if he intends to submit his resumés in answer to advertised positions, or if he intends to "shot-gun" them out to possible employers. According to his stated plan, you simply use one of the two general forms for cover letters.

And that's it - the basics you need for starting your own highly profitable resumé service. A couple of things to always bear in mind: Your success will be directly related to the quality of the finished product you put out. Learn to do it right, and then strive for perfection with every job you complete for a client.

Remember too that the image you project is the credibility rating you'll carry with your customers.

Finally, put some real planning into starting your business; get it well established and running smoothly; then hire other people to do the work. The object of a business of your own is not steady employment for you, but financial security and independence - to achieve and enjoy the fruits of your labor. Plan your business, nurture its growth and then hire other people to do the work while you guide, supervise and make bank deposits.

COVER LETTER

IN RESPONSE TO AN ADVERTISED OPENING
Your recent ad, expressing a need for an experienced stock clerk, has come to my attention. I'd like very much to get together with you at your earliest convenience to discuss my qualifications for this position.

With hopes for such a meeting in mind, I'm enclosing a copy of my resume for your information and consideration.

I assure you that I am experienced, learn very quickly, and am adaptable to new methods of operation. I have heard favorable comments about your company as the place for one with ambitions for growth and self-improvement .

I'm available to come in and meet with you at your convenience and can begin work immediately.

Thank you in advance for your time and consideration. A call from you will be most welcome and appreciated.

Sincerely yours,

/s/ Your signature

Your Typed Name

(123) 456-7890

COVER LETTER

FOR THE SHOT-GUN APPROACH WHERE NO KNOWN OPENING EXISTS
As a salesman, I have ambitions to improve my status in life.

Your company's reputation as a leader in the publishing of educational materials impresses me, and I would like to explore the possibilities of becoming a part of your sales force.

I'm currently a top-producing salesman, but feel stymied with my present employment. I think I could do much better with a company receptive to innovative ideas and energetic people such as myself.

Could we get together and discuss the possibilities of my joining your organization in some capacity that would utilize my abilities to a greater extent, and at the same time benefit your company?

I will be free from 10 o'clock on, next Tuesday, the 27th. Please give me a call at (123) 456-7890.

Thank you! I am looking forward to meeting you.

/s/ Your signature

Your typed name

PS: Enclosed is a resumé that will give you an in depth look at my accomplishments, and an idea of my potential. I appreciate your time and consideration.