Australian business recognised in the US for innovation

June 17, 2009 - PRLog -- A statement on CDI website http://www.careerdirectors.com/cia_2009.htm read," 2009 marks the first of CDI's new annual competition which has been created to find and recognize career innovation. This first year, judges saw some of the best and brightest the careers industry has to offer! It was a difficult decision, but following are the top five nominees and their six nominations"

iResume http://www.resumepartners.com.au/iresume-demo/ and iCoverLetter http://www.resumepartners.com.au/cover-letters/. By way of some background, iResume & iCoverLetter, like many good innovations, were born out of the sheer need to address a serious issue in the market, in this case, the lack of quality resumes and the general inability of the public to tailor a resume or the entire application to a specific role.  With unprecedented economic growth for well over a decade, there has been no call for a tailored approach, employers fought over scarce skills and almost every type of employee had an abundance of roles to choose from.  This all changed midway through 2008 and continues to do so into 2009. We read about doom and gloom everyday.  The traditional approach of tailoring ones resume to a specific application will be required as jobs become scarce.  The only problem is, society seems to have forgotten how to do this.

Enter iResume...
iResume is delivered online and starts with a blank canvas.  With some clever animation and a superb audio presentation a chronological resume is created from the beginning, demonstrating the various choices one will have and explaining the reasons behind the chosen methodology by exploring each option.  Once the chronological resume is complete, a skills based (functional) resume is developed from the original chronological resume.  A combined resume is created from the other two by demonstrating how to tailor a resume to a specific role.  Using a job advertisement, the key criteria is identified, extracted and addressed in the combination resume.

iCoverLetter analyses the application process by demonstrating how to extract the key criteria from an advertisement and create an application from many different perspectives,  ranging from online to speculative approaches to desired employers.

Michael Queally, founder of Resume Partners, brings 15 years professional experience to every resume. Michael’s experience spans graduate recruitment to senior executives for medium and large organisations.  Having also lived a diversified career outside of recruitment, including investment & development in the property sector as well as general management in the IT industry, Michael brings a unique mixture of recruitment and self-career management knowledge which adds immense value to each resume. This experience is clearly evident in the iResume and iCoverLetter products.

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Developers of iResume & iCoverLetter, tools that teach the art of resume/cover letter writing and how to position yourself on paper. We also offer Resume Tailor, a bespoke resume writing service, tailoring applications to specific jobs.