steel man resumes

Resumes designed to help you thrive.





Traditional resumes are poorly designed.

They FAIL in the modern job market for many, many reasons.

A traditional resume, no matter how well written, will make a Straw Man of you.






Consider the Audience.

Research says the average employer spends 7 seconds reading a resume. And they might have dozens or hundreds of them to read. The reality is, an employer is looking for reasons to reject as many applicants as quickly as possible so they can interview the handful that are the most attractive to them.


Our resumes are designed to stand out. If it doesn't, then it's likely to get lost in the crowd and rejected before someone gives it a fair read.




Consider the process

A resume is only one part of the whole process. The employer is certainly not going to put as much effort into reading your resume as you spent writing it, so you need to be prepared to shine in your interview. Traditional resumes are difficult documents to sell in interviews because they are full of fluff, and facts and figures; remember, people think in stories, not numbers.


Our resumes are designed to help guide you (and them) through the interview process with confidence, competence, and control.




Consider the design

Using a traditional resume is a game you can only lose. We cannot stress that enough. Every single design aspect is geared towards benefiting the employer and completely ignores your best interests. And because everyone uses the same design metrics, by default it places you in a hyper-competitive position in which everyone benefits from exaggerating strengths and hiding flaws. Only the most skillful writers can navigate those conflicting needs with integrity.


Our resumes are designed to meet the employer's expectations while also giving you room to be one hundred percent true to yourself and your ambitions.






consider the research

Because a traditional resume fails in all the areas mentioned above, the best resume writing advice you can get is still bad. To be successful in this competitive job market, you need to know much more than how to fill in a resume template. You will need to be expert level in several disciplines in addition to your own industry.


Our resumes are designed to give you an edge up on the competition by utilizing research that they have not.






consider the market

Employers everywhere are desperate for good workers due to The Great Resignation. The whole nation is effected by this trend that was started by Covid and other socioeconomic pressures. There is a paradigm shift in today's job market in which more and more power is being given to the applicants over the employers- traditional resumes have no room to adopt to this change.


Our resumes are designed to take advantage of market trends to increase your salary dramatically without having to do any extra work.

In summary,

traditional resumes are trash.

And yet, you need a great resume to be competitive.


Our challenge is to give you everything you need to thrive while avoiding the many pitfalls inherent in traditional resume design.


Where a traditional resume will Straw Man you by making you easy to eliminate, our expert resume writer will Steel Man you and make you impossible to ignore.


With a traditional resume a normal salary increase is between 5 and 10 percent; with a Steel Man resume you can expect a 20 to 45 percent salary increase without additional responsibilities.


Contact us today for a free resume review.