CDI’s Free Expert Resources
for Resume Writers and Career Coaches
Welcome to your sneak peek of CDI lessons, strategies, resources, and tools!
Our goal is to provide resume writers, career coaches, and other career practitioners with the most up-to-date, high-quality resources. So here’s your taste!
If you like what you see, you can gain access to the entire member resource library of scripts, templates, master classes, core lessons, networking and support, live webinars, on-demand audio and video tutorials, and done-for-you client resources for as little as $97. Learn more about membership here.
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[President] Laura DeCarlo’s free resource changed everything for me.
From zero to six-figures didn’t come easy. I dedicated my time to study how her process worked and it did the magic.
This triggered my decision to be a member of the community.
Free Sample of Member Lessons and Resources
Here’s is a sampling of some CDI member resources to give you a sense of what our benefits are all about.
Why Become a CDI Member?
You are looking for your BEST next step and don’t have time to make mistakes. I could say all kinds of fancy things to you, but here’s the truth about what we help you do:
Reclaim your life, get off the hamster wheel, earn 6-figures without stress, develop in-demand skills, and make your prospects eager to hire you.
Free Master’s Video Course for Resume Writers & Career Coaches Who Want to Close 4-Figure Sales
To close the high-dollar sales in career services has NOTHING. TO DO. WITH. SELLING.
It’s all about an educational process I, CDI founder Laura DeCarlo, call edu-fearacating.
When you build edu-fearacating into an easy, foundational consultation process, it will be (as two of my private clients have now said),
“Like you are giving away gold and your clients can’t get their credit cards out fast enough to give you”.
So it’s not so much a matter of mastering a HUGE process as it is to understanding the key tweaks to what you are doing and how they can powerfully shift your success.
With that in mind, I’ve created a series of short 3-10 minute tip videos that let resume writers and career coaches like you pick and choose the topic that you need to get into your groove.
Put all the videos together, and you have a master’s class that helps you:
- Capitalize on a 3-step process that moves job seekers from the perception of it’s either a cheap DIY or an expensive luxury to recognizing your service is a MUST-HAVE at any price.
- Make clients feel the package you suggest is instinctively the “just right” fit, even if they came in only needing a bandaid.
- Overcome your own self-talk that has held you back from claiming and quoting the rates you deserve or is stopping you from recommending complete packages. Better yet, getting to “yes” with those offers.
- Understand when and how to talk price to keep the prospect engaged and action-oriented.
- Utilize simple wording and processes to re-engage a prospect who has to think about it.
- Build the right packages for positioning your offerings to ensure both you and your clients have a win-win outcome.
- Obliterate your weaknesses with an easy up-front analysis so you always put your best foot forward when prospects ask the unnerving questions.
- Learn how to get clients to provide service feedback that will pre-close prospects on your website or LinkedIn profile like nothing else you’ve ever tried.
- Convert the lurkers on your email list into buyers without discounting prices.
It’s remarkably easy to get out of your own way when you have a simple process to follow.
Consider what Amanda Rico, Ph.D. of Rico Editorial Services said about this process:
“Each time I deployed a new recommendation from Laura, my business doubled and/or tripled in revenue. I am on track to double my annual revenue from last year. If you’re considering joining CDI or working with Laura one-on-one, stop putting it off. Having her in your corner will transform your business processes and deliver results beyond your wildest dreams”
So, if you are ready to get a taste of that success, check the video series out now.
Using your guides, I transitioned from thinking “I don’t have good sales skills” to closing my highest-ever deal this month.
I read from your daily email, “If most people say no, it’s not that you don’t have a saleable service; you just don’t have a strategy to make your prospects think they can’t live without it,” and it massively changed my thinking and approach.
Since becoming a member I would encourage every budding writer to take part (in CDI). The resources are truly the magic beans for building a successful business.
Yes, we do offer all the things you’ve been told you need to be a great resume writer and career coach.
At the end of the day you need skill, certification, and authority, but you also need process.
At CDI you gain access to CDI’s 6X Success Model.
Free Show Replays & Blog Resources
The Career Superhero Corner is filled with articles and lessons for resume writers and other career professionals free to non-members. Here are some of the latest posts.
10 Ways to Boost Your Chances with the 2026 TORI Resume Writing Awards
Winning Resume Writing Advice from TORI Award-Winners
President’s Choice Award for Excellence in Career Industry Service
2025 TORI Awards Analysis: Resume Writing Trends, Pitfalls, and Best Practices
Resume Publishing Opportunity – Resumes for Dummies book
How Resume Writers, Career Coaches and Job Seekers Avoid Scams
Why Become a CDI Member?
You are looking for your BEST next step and don’t have time to make mistakes. I could say all kinds of fancy things to you, but here’s the truth about what we help you do:
Reclaim your life, get off the hamster wheel, earn 6-figures without stress, develop in-demand skills, and make your prospects eager to hire you.
Our members who follow our done-for-you scripts, tools, strategies, and engagement plans are saying:
Thanks for all your resources and encouragement for career practitioners. I’ve been involved in CDI for a few years now. The tip sheets, audio lessons, video trainings, etc. have helped me to begin standing out as a valuable commodity in the higher ed space.
Don’t stop because you’re changing lives.
Each time I deployed a new recommendation my business doubled and/or tripled in revenue.
And another amazing event: I quoted and sold another client my deluxe package for double the price I would have charged someone at his level before.
