September is officially registered as International Update Your Resume Month (UYRM)! This means resume writers and other career professionals can piggyback on the month-long holiday as a way to: Build awareness, acceptance, and visibility for your specialized services. Drive new business to your company and services. Gain publicity through Read More >
Grow Your Resume Writing & Coaching Business by Targeting Your Local Market (Video Tip)
Are you a career professional who is tired of being a little fish in a big, competitive, global pond when marketing your services online to job seekers? Because resume writing and career coaching are recession-proof services where you can find your clients literally anywhere, many initially set their sites exclusively Read More >
Up Your Resume Writing Sale With Two Add-Ons Your Clients Must Have (Video Tip)
What if you could simultaneously boost the profit from your resume writing sales AND help your job-seeking clients to improve their odds of making it to a second interview or landing the offer? You may be surprised to know that there are two documents you can easily prepare for your Read More >
Convert More Website Visitors With an Initial Free Offer (Video Tip)
You're out there every day working hard to funnel traffic to your website. But what if prospects aren't ready to buy? If you're not grabbing their email address with an initial free offer, you might lose them forever. In this 5-minute video, I share how to capture those leads and Read More >
Make Money While You Sleep With a Membership Site (Video Tip)
Are you a resume writer, career coach, or consultant who wants to make money while you sleep? Then you may just love my favorite option for this – offering a membership service! You Can Make Money With a Membership Site! You’ve currently got a lot of knowledge and likely content Read More >
Your Powerful Career Hero Stories of 2020 and the TORI Resume Awards
Your Clients Have Hero Stories to Share Through You With Their Resumes. Your TORI Entries Can Tell Them + Gain Reach to Help Many! We thank Marie Plett for creating this message to share with resume writers worldwide. I hope you will take a moment to read it and become Read More >
CDI’s 2020 Career Innovator Award Winners & Honorable Mentions
We are so excited to announce the winners and honorable mentions of CDI's 2020 Career Innovator awards! Every two years CDI hosts the competition, which draws innovative entries from resume writers, career coaches, outplacement professionals, trainers, and authors for consideration. This year was harder than many with such a Read More >
Use Storytelling to Transform Job Descriptions in Resume Writing (Video Tip)
Storytelling isn't new to the resume writing scene, but it's often wrongfully underplayed when writing job descriptions. With effective questioning technique you can dig out resume writing gold by uncovering the job seeker's baseline from which all results were attained and challenges overcome. I call this the Job Position Hook. Read More >
Ten Tips for Writing TORI Award-Winning Resumes
There's no better ROI for a resume writer than winning or being nominated for a Toast of the Resume Writing (TORI) award. But there are just 37 days left to register for 2020! Ask any winner or nominee about the value, and they will then proceed to tell you Read More >
COVID-19 Support Resources for Resume Writers and Career Coaches
The last few months of this pandemic have been a numbing blur for many. Therefore, here at CDI we want to make sure that resume writers and career coaches are aware of the many support resources and strategies we've provided for navigating COVID-19 and the market boom we can expect Read More >
