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Resumes and Cover Letters

IMPORTANT: A strong resume and cover letter are not nearly as important as understanding if you can compete well for the role based on your experience. If you need help getting clarity, begin with job search coaching instead.

Resumes and Cover Letters with Joanie Donnelly

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Press play! Joanie Donnelly, our Resume and Cover Letter Expert, shares what it’s like to work with her on your job application materials through a customized coaching experience!

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Resume, Cover Letter, and LinkedIn Coaching with Joanie Donnelly

Writing resumes and cover letters can be stressful. Even if you are confident in your writing skills and you have a lot of great work experience, it’s hard to know how to present yourself confidently, or know what information to include or not to include. And in today’s job market, if you don’t know how to optimize your materials for automated Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) your resume might never get seen by human eyes! This makes it incredibly hard to land an interview.

Coaching with Joanie Donnelly will help you:

  • Understand the most relevant experience to include in your resume
  • Use your cover letter to make the case that you’re the best candidate for the job
  • Tailor your application materials to each specific job announcement
  • Deploy the correct keywords and document formatting to pass ATS and make sure your resume gets seen by the hiring manager

Customize your sessions

All resume and cover letter coaching sessions with Joanie are fully customizable, keeping in mind your specific needs, schedule, budget, your industry, and the type of job you’re looking for.

You will build your own process: it can range from Joanie simply serving as an advisor to look over your materials, to a fully collaborative process of going through everything together, to Joanie writing your resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profile for you.

Increase your confidence and land the interview

Our clients say that one of the most challenging things about writing resumes and cover letters is trying to remember anything impressive they did at work to write in their job application materials. Joanie brings a fresh set of eyes to your work experience, and will help you hone in on your greatest accomplishments, crafting a concise, compelling argument that you’re the perfect match for the job. When you’ve got an expert in your corner, your job application materials will be powerfully written, formatted correctly, and optimized for ATS, so you can be confident that you’ve dramatically increased your chances to land your next job interview.

What's LinkedIn got to do with it?

Tune up your LinkedIn profile with Joanie

In this video, Joanie explains why optimizing your LinkedIn profile should be a crucial part of your job search. Need help working on your resume, cover letter, or LinkedIn profile?

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Coaching with Joanie can also include tuning up your LinkedIn profile. Optimizing your LinkedIn content will maximize your chances for connecting with others in your industry and catching the eye of recruiters. Joanie will evaluate your LinkedIn page, and work with you to tighten up your content and make sure it’s optimized with industry keywords relevant to your job search.

"Joanie is an absolute pleasure to work with. She is a good communicator and provides expert knowledge and feedback in a positive manner. I feel very grateful to have found A Portland Career and especially Joanie who is such a resource in my search for a new career!"
Shannon L.Executive Director
"Joanie's effective use of business vocabulary in creating my resume has gotten me great results."
Judy B.Office Manager
"Joanie is a pleasure to work with. She's a master at understanding which parts of my story are relevant to a particular job posting, then helping me tell that story through my resume and cover letter."
John G.Attorney
"I am a long-time professional with a diverse and dynamic career. Joanie morphed my complex background into a resume that showed my talents and skills in the best possible light. I have had a great deal of positive feedback about it. Joanie also helped me strategize job selections and applications, and wrote cover letters that have been foundational to my application process. Thank you, Joanie!"
Jane E.Sr. Administrator, Writer, DEI Strategist
"Wow. This is spectacular! This is the best my resume has EVER looked. Thank you. A million kudos to you!"
Kari M.Project Manager
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"Joanie is an absolute pleasure to work with. She is a good communicator and provides expert knowledge and feedback in a positive manner. I feel very grateful to have found A Portland Career and especially Joanie who is such a resource in my search for a new career!"
Shannon L.
Shannon L.Executive Director
"Joanie's effective use of business vocabulary in creating my resume has gotten me great results."
Judy B.
Judy B.Office Manager
"Joanie is a pleasure to work with. She's a master at understanding which parts of my story are relevant to a particular job posting, then helping me tell that story through my resume and cover letter."
John G.
John G.Attorney
"I am a long-time professional with a diverse and dynamic career. Joanie morphed my complex background into a resume that showed my talents and skills in the best possible light. I have had a great deal of positive feedback about it. Joanie also helped me strategize job selections and applications, and wrote cover letters that have been foundational to my application process. Thank you, Joanie!"
Jane E.Sr. Administrator, Writer, DEI Strategist
"Wow. This is spectacular! This is the best my resume has EVER looked. Thank you. A million kudos to you!"
Kari M.Project Manager
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Let's get started

Joanie’s rate is $80/hour, and the resume and cover letter process can take two to eight hours or more, depending on your needs and how you and Joanie design the coaching process together. Schedule an Exploratory Call, so we can get a better sense of where you are in your job search and resume writing process.

If you are in an active search, be sure to tell us when the job posting closes, so we know that your deadline is time sensitive.  

Ready to Write Your Best Resume and cover letter?

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Resume, Letters, and LinkedIn packages are offered by:

Resume and Cover Letter Expert Joanie Donnelly

Joanie Donnelly Resume Coach at A Portland Career

Joanie’s love of writing combined with experience in sales and recruitment now helps her write persuasive resumes, cover letters, and LinkedIn profiles.

With patience and persistence, Joanie coaches clients to uncover the unique qualities and skills that need to be clearly communicated in their resume. She takes the time to help clients remember the little and big successes that made a difference in their past positions.

Joanie is a good fit for: Entry through professional level job seekers and those looking for guidance in writing their own resume and cover letter, or want materials crafted for them.