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Award-Winning, Master Resume Writer, Master Career Director, Credentialed Career Master, and multi-certified professional resume writer Gayle Howard, will showcase the drive and ambition that makes you the individual you are. Through intensive information gathering, your resume will shine with vision, purpose and innovation to impress the most seasoned recruiters.
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- The Board Collection
New Horizons- Evidently Executive
- Purely Professional
- Unquestional Ambition
- Prosperity Ascent / Prosperity Ascent PLUS
- Coaching Programs-Defining You and Your Career
- Other Services including Key Selection Criteria
- Books
The Board Collection
Your Investment: $1199
You are at the pinnacle of your career. This comprehensive portfolio solution encompasses resume, biography, a four-page web portfolio, disc profile, and triple pack of cover letters set to impress executive head-hunters and board members alike…
- Complete project management from in-depth questioning via email, through content assessments, strategy development, composition, and formatting of a content-rich résumé by award-winning Master Resume Writer and triple certified Credentialed Career Master, Gayle Howard
- Executive Biography. High-impact, powerful one-page career biography that encapsulates your business successes, highlights defining career moments, and creates high expectations for future prosperity. Outstanding resource for corporate websites, joint-venture portfolios, advertising, and to woo potential investors.
- Executive Insights: Top-Level DISC behavioural profile. Online profiling system produces intuitive report that analyses responses and helps executives understand and exploit key strengths.
- Cover Letter “Triple Pack” comprising a broadcast letter that conveys market availability to senior recruiters and employers, a networking letter to reacquaint yourself with former colleagues, and a generic letter for responding to advertisements.
- 2 x 30-minute interview telecoaching (telephone coaching) sessions with Australia’s first Certified Interview Professional (CEIP), Annemarie Cross. Sessions explore issues such as interview preparation techniques, salary negotiations and more.
- 4 page professional web portfolio; includes your resume, biography, charts, and contact page as a powerful visual presentation that mirrors your professional worth. (extra pages charged at $40 per page)
- Gayle’s E-book: PS...You Need A Resume!
- Documents presented for all job search activities: Word (email), PDF (printing), e-resume (email paste), RTF (all computers)
- Lifetime electronic storage. Free access to resume files; sent via email without charge upon receipt.
- Exclusive access to Executive Distinctions area of the Top Margin website. Source forms to download, read the latest employment statistics, check out time management and career articles, and gain access to sites for overseas appointments.
- Download your resume from Top Margin’s document repository for 3-months. 24 x 7 access from anywhere in the world.
Important to note: Packages of this depth take time to design and produce. An important, time-intensive portfolio cannot, and should not, be rushed. Please provide up to 3 weeks for development and completion.
New Horizons
Your Investment: $605
This package is for people in transition. Whether you are leaving a role after many years, have been absent from the workforce for a while, have accepted a redundancy, or your workplace is about to change, this is the package for you…
- E-book, PS...You Need A Resume! Review how the modern résumé has become a career marketing document—highly competitive, high impact writing. E-book provides you with an insight on the methods used to write your resume and gets you into the right frame for moving forward.
- DISC Profile: Interviewing Insights. Widely tested throughout the world, these DISC profiles are invaluable in helping you identify behavioural traits that will help you communicate information at interview.
- A half hour, Career Transitions and Talent Identification Coaching session with Master NLP Practitioner and certified interview specialist, Annemarie Cross. Session will help you define your talents, think of key examples of your experience and position you beautifully for the questions that will be sent to you as your resume development gets underway.
- Complete project management from in-depth questioning via email, through content assessments, strategy development, composition, and formatting of a content-rich résumé by award-winning Master Resume Writer and triple certified Credentialed Career Master, Gayle Howard.
- High-impact cover letter to apply for a current opportunity or as a “cold” approach to recruiters and employers.
- One hour or two half-hour sessions of interview telephone coaching with Australia’s first Certified Interview Professional (CEIP), Annemarie Cross. Sessions explore issues such as interview preparation techniques, salary negotiations and more.
- Documents presented in Word (email), PDF (printing), and e-resume (email paste)
- Lifetime electronic storage. Free access to resume files; sent via email without charge upon receipt.
- Exclusive access to Executive Distinctions area of the Top Margin website. Source forms to download, read the latest employment statistics, check out time management and career articles, and gain access to sites for overseas appointments.
- Download your resume from Top Margin’s document repository for 3-months. 24 x 7 access from anywhere in the world.
Evidently Executive
Your Investment: $569
You are an individual who appreciates and places high value in quality. You influence, you build solid relationships, and you have a track record for identifying profitable opportunities. You intuitively understand the value of personal PR and working with professionals to get the job done. Evidently Executive is not “just a resume package”, but a must-have series of senior career marketing tools…
- E-book, PS...You Need A Resume! Review how the modern résumé has become a career marketing document—highly competitive, high impact writing. E-book provides you with an insight on the methods used to write your resume and gets you into the right frame for moving forward.
- Complete executive-style resume. Project management from in-depth questioning via email, through content assessments, strategy development, composition, and formatting of a content-rich résumé by award-winning Master Resume Writer and triple certified Credentialed Career Master, Gayle Howard
- Executive Biography. High-impact, powerful one-page career biography that encapsulates your business successes, highlights defining career moments, and creates high expectations for future prosperity. Outstanding resource for corporate websites, joint-venture portfolios, advertising, and to woo potential investors.
- DISC behavioural profiling: Interviewing Insights plus forty minute debrief session. Online profiling system produces intuitive report that analyses responses and helps executives understand and exploit key strengths. Half-hour review session with Accredited NLP Practitioner Annemarie Cross is devoted to increase your value and overall marketability to an organization by learning how to enhance your interactions which can mark the difference between success and failure in your work and personal life; identifying your interpersonal communication preferences so that you can become more productive at work, pinpointing and harnessing how you tend to approach problems and challenges in the workplace to become more effective, targeting the characteristics that could move you from being a manager to an influential leader within the workplace, and identifying strategies that will allow you to communicate openly and directly to get the results you want.
- High-impact cover letter to apply for a current opportunity or as a “cold” approach to recruiters and employers.
- Download your resume from Top Margin’s document repository for 3-months. 24 x 7 access from anywhere in the world.
- Document formats provided for all job search activities: Word (email), PDF (printing), e-form (online forms), e-resume (email paste), RTF (all computers).
- Access to Executive Distinctions area of the Top Margin website. Source forms to download, read the latest employment statistics, check out time management and career articles, and gain access to sites for overseas appointments.
- Lifetime electronic storage. Free access to resume files; sent via email without charge upon receipt.
Purely Professional
Your Investment: $459
You are a professional—and it is time to show it. This traditional resume package includes the critical tools you need for a successful job search, plus a component to give you that extra edge—interview “telecoaching” by Australia’s first Certified Employment Interview Professional Annemarie Cross—personally trained in the craft of interviewing by internationally recognised career specialist, Jay Block…
- Complete project management from in-depth questioning via email, through content assessments, strategy development, composition, and formatting of a content-rich resume by award-winning Master Resume Writer and triple certified Credentialed Career Master, Gayle Howard
- Dynamic cover letter to be used for any number of purposes.
- 2 x ½-hour, one-on-one interview telecoaching sessions (telephone coaching) with Australia’s first Certified Interview Professional (CEIP), Annemarie Cross. Shaped to meet the needs of professionals of all industries, the sessions explore issues such as interview preparation techniques for overcoming fears and concerns, and tiptoeing through the minefield of interviewing traps and challenges*
- E-book, PS...You Need a Resume!
- Documents delivered to you electronically in Word (email), PDF (printing), and e-resume (email cut and paste) formats.
- Access to Executive Distinctions area of the Top Margin website. Source forms to download, read the latest employment statistics, check out time management and career articles, and gain access to sites for overseas appointments.
- Lifetime electronic storage. Free access to resume files; sent via email without charge upon receipt.
Unquestionable Ambition
Your Investment: $415
You respect the power of professionalism as you strive towards career success. Unquestionable Ambition provides the fundamental tools for your job search including the online DISC profile tool “Interviewing Insights” ...
- Complete resume development. Project management from in-depth questioning via email, through content assessments, strategy development, composition, and formatting of a content-rich resume by award-winning Master Resume Writer and triple certified Credentialed Career Master, Gayle Howard
- Dynamic cover letter to apply for a current opportunity or as a cold approach to recruiters/employers.
- DISC Profile Interviewing Insights plus half-hour review session. Online behavioural profile explores your preferred styles of operating as a leader or team member, and pinpoints your communication style—an eye-opener as you prepare for interview! Half-hour review session with Accredited NLP Practitioner Annemarie Cross is devoted to increase your value and overall marketability to an organization by learning how to enhance your interactions which can mark the difference between success and failure in your work and personal life; identifying your interpersonal communication preferences so that you can become more productive at work, pinpointing and harnessing how you tend to approach problems and challenges in the workplace to become more effective, targeting the characteristics that could move you from being a manager to an influential leader within the workplace, and identifying strategies that will allow you to communicate openly and directly to get the results you want.
- E-book: PS...You Need a Resume!
- Documents delivered to you electronically in Word (email), PDF (printing), and e-Résumé (text only for uploading to online databases or apply for online applications).
- Lifetime electronic storage. Free access to resume files; sent via email without charge upon receipt.
Prosperity Ascent / Prosperity Ascent PLUS
Your Investment: $320/$350
Complete resume development, presented via email in two electronic formats.
Prosperity Ascent:
- A resume composed by triple-certified, award-winning Master Resume Writer, Gayle Howard. Gayle will showcase your talents through finely-tuned information gathering and strategy formation—delivering a resume with rich content, vision and purpose. Service includes in-depth questioning via email, content evaluation, strategy development, composition, writing, and formatting of a content-rich résumé.
- Documents delivered to you electronically in Word (email) and PDF (printing and viewing on any computer).
- Ebook: PS...You Need a Resume!
- A cover letter can be added to this package and will receive a one-time discount for purchasing at the same time as the resume. You are given this opportunity at the time of purchase from our e-commerce site.
Other Services
All these services are available as additional services after the purchase of one of our packages.
Web Portfolio $290.
Exciting, four page design with graphics, intuitive interface, automatic download of your traditional resume and interactivity. You will be provided with your own Internet worldwide web address to give to employers, quote on your letters, business cards or job search promotional material. Four page site is standard in The Board Collection view sample here. Note: Extra pages available at $40 per page. Does not include wording and content by Top Margin. Price includes light edit of original resume, a chart or picture inclusion, and 12 months hosting. Buy Now
JustaletPak $75
We create a cover letter and mail/email/fax a copy of your resume and the letter, returning the copy of the letter to you via email. This price does not include creation of your resume. Buy Now
Existing Resume Review $33
Your resume will be scrutinised and you will be sent a 2–3-page report exploring format issues, overall presentation, grammatical/spelling errors, and areas that may raise “red flags” to a recruiter. You will also receive some tips on overcoming these problems. Buy Now
Send Us Your Existing Resume
DISC Profiles and Debrief Analysis Session ($140–$199)
Different styles and formats. World renowned and time-tested this online scientific behavioural assessment range pinpoints traits, highlights skills, advises on communication and work preferences and is an absolute must for knowing yourself better. Half-hour review session with Accredited NLP Practitioner Annemarie Cross is devoted to increase your value and overall marketability to an organization by learning how to enhance your interactions which can mark the difference between success and failure in your work and personal life; identifying your interpersonal communication preferences so that you can become more productive at work, pinpointing and harnessing how you tend to approach problems and challenges in the workplace to become more effective, targeting the characteristics that could move you from being a 'manager' to an influential 'leader' within the workplace, and identifying strategies that will allow you to communicate openly and directly to get the results you want. . Buy Now
Interview Telecoaching $145
Australia’s first CEIP (Certified Employment Interview Professional) will prepare you to face those tough interview sessions with poise and confidence. 2 half hour or 1 hour long telephone-coaching session/s will address your individual needs, targeting and allaying your fears and concerns. A “must have experience” for any job seeker. Buy Now
Credential Verifier (Reference List) $85
Are you adequately prepared for interview? Do you have a reference list available with current people who can be contacted? Do you know that even a reference list can market your accomplishments? If not, you need this! Buy Now
Executive Biographies $275
For use in corporate websites, business marketing, advertising, sales portfolios, annual reports or to complete your employment portfolio. 1 page biography encapsulates your career background and reveals the essence of your successes.Buy Now
E-Course: PS...You're a Resume Expert--Resume Mastery for Professional Writers $525
Gayle’s fun, stimulating e-course includes insights, tips, quizzes and assignments in a progressive journey that takes professional resume writers through the basics of resume writing to the more complex issues of career changers, return-to-work candidates, dealing with gaps in employment, word processing, and more so that aspiring or professional resume writers can learn the tricks of the trade crucial to stay ahead of the competition and help their clients succeed. Buy Now
Key Selection Criteria $90 PER Criteria (ONLY available with the purchase of a resume).
Key selection criteria can be frustrating, hair-pulling and challenging. One thing they always are -- time intensive whether you choose to create them yourself, or whether you choose a professional to create them for you. Key Selection Criteria are required for all public sector applications. To get your foot in the door you need to be specifically qualified in all the key areas, and you need to articulate your strengths succinctly by using specific examples of your expertise. At Top Margin we have built a reputation for success and integrity. We will not accept key selection criteria projects for unqualified candidates because it is a waste of your time and your money. Time is a precious commodity and we can't always find the time in our schedule to fit these projects in -- if we can't meet your deadline we'll tell you so and refer you to another firm. That's why we don't have a "buy now" link here right now. Contact us please here and check with us to see what our schedule is like. Before you do that though, please ensure you are qualified to be a viable candidate. If you don't have the qualifications, you don't have the experience, the background or the knowledge in the key areas, you will not get an interview, no matter how nicely it is written and how well it is presented and formatted. So before you do anything, look carefully at the criteria in relation to your skills and experience. They must be a match.
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Coaching Programs: Defining You, Defining Your Career
Purposeful Careers: The Purposeful CareersTM program is an intensive, individualised, one-on-one training program developed by Accredited NLP Practitioner Annemarie Cross. The strategic program provides practical steps and proven strategies that will assist you in demystifying the career planning process; support you in gaining clarity around your talents, values and purpose; and allow you to design a career path that is in alignment with your life’s calling so that you can begin to find real meaning fulfilment in your work! The program includes:
Books Personally Recommended by Gayle
10 Key Steps to Ace That Interview! Are you one of the thousands who experience interview knock backs and struggle with ‘why’ you fail to reach second interview stage, and eventual job offer? Imagine if you could strengthen and enhance your interview techniques, enabling you to deliver a dynamic and unforgettable performance? Annemarie Cross, Certified Employment Interview Professional, Career and NLP Coach has recently launched 10 Key Steps to Ace that Interview! Cutting edge interview techniques EXPOSED! - clear-cut and relevant guide for any potential candidate whether you are a senior executive or a first time job seeker. By incorporating some of the key strategies presented in this book you will be able to outperform and outshine your competition, catapulting your status as the top candidate in the interviewer’s mind. Bound book: $25.95 (inc. GST) with postage and handling $5.00. Buy Now
How to Write and Talk to Selection Criteria. This is a must for people planning to apply for Government jobs in Australia. Soft cover. 210 pages. $27.50 Buy Now This book takes the mystery out of applying for jobs in the public service and community and tertiary education sectors. Ann Villiers draws on her extensive public sector career to help you to:
- Understand jobs in the public service
- Write a quality statement to selection criteria
- Prepare for and perform well at job interviews
- Manage the entire application cycle
- Make sense of what you offer and ‘sell’ this to an employer
- Foster your wellbeing during job transitions.
PS...You Need a Resume! What do fingernails on a blackboard, making a speech to a hostile crowd, eating overcooked broccoli, preparing your tax return, and walking on hot coals have in common? Answer: They are all things people have said they’d rather experience than write their own resume. Are you the best candidate for the job but you never get interviews? Then it’s time to turn to Gayle Howard, award-winning, multi-certified professional resume writer with resumes featured in more than 20 career books worldwide. Powerful, insightful, and containing that "wow" factor, Gayle’s resumes have helped thousands. Now through her book, PS...You Need A Resume, Gayle shares the secrets of her trade with you. Click here to read more.
30-Day Job Promotion. Build a powerful promotion plan in a month. 30-Day Job Promotion gives experienced professionals and first-time workers insider strategies for standing out and demonstrating their value to employers. These quick tips put readers on the fast track to a promotion - and more money - in just a matter of weeks. Buy Here
PS...You're a Resume Expert (Bound Book). $39.99 + P&H
Written by Gayle Howard for professional writers, this bound book is based on her successful e-course endorsed by Career Directors International. Gayle understands the challenges ofusing words to represent clients. She knows that clients can befrustrated, fearful, nervous or uncommunicative. She also understandsthat for professional writers to get past these natural human emotions they need morethan just a sample resume book. Professional writers need to know how to ask the rightquestions, what questions to ask, and how to create an action plan. PS...You're a Resume Expert, is written to make professional writers shine...Your writing, your brand, your career. Overseas buyers purchase here. Australian buyers Buy Here.
Interview Pocket RX (softcover) $11.95 includes P&H). INTERVIEW POCKET RX is a color-coded, pocket-sized reference (measures only 4.5" x 5.5") that provides you with the following One-Minute Solutions to ace your interviews: Company Research RX, Attire RX, Arrival RX, What to Bring RX, Employer Expectations RX, Answering Questions RX, Presentations RX, Illegal Questions RX, What to Ask RX, Personality Tests RX, Identifying the Interview Type RX, Salary RX. It's the only guide that gives you instant access to need-to-know NOW information for every aspect of the interview and salary negotiation process. t discreetly slips into your pocket, purse, notebook or briefcase for instant access. Its small size makes it conveniently available whenever you need it -- on the train, in the car...even at the last second while waiting to be called into your interview. t fits your busy lifestyle by giving you just what you need to know in a brief and entertaining format. It ensures you get the EDGE in your interview! Buy here
Communicate your unique promise of value with compelling resumes that freeze your successes in time and crystallize them in the mind of the reader. 