Make a Five- to Six- Figure Income Writing Resumes at Home

Everyone knows the job market isn’t what it used to be. Gone are the days when a person can find a job right out of school and work there until retirement. The average person will change careers four times in their lifetime. And all of this job shuffling can mean big profits for you.

How to Cash In on Job Insecurity

Most employers won’t even schedule an interview until they see your resume. This makes the resume a hugely important part of a person’s job hunt. And yet most people have no idea how to write an effective resume. That’s why there are so many books on how to write resumes out there.

But you want to know a little secret? Most people would rather have an expert do the job for them. They know that paging through a resume book at the library isn’t going to make their resume. That’s where you come in. If you are a quick learner and like to write, you can easily enter this field.

How to Become a Resume-Writing Expert

Go check out every book on resumes that you can find at your local library. If you have a little cash, you may want to sign up for a resume writing course like the one offered by AWAI (http://www.awaionline.com). Write some practice resumes. Get a feel for what you will need to do. The AWAI course is especially helpful because they give you everything you need to start your business.

No one is going to pay you to write resumes unless you can prove you know what you’re doing. Offer to write resumes for your friends and family. Do this for free. Tell them they can pay you back by telling their friends about your service.

How to Set Yourself Up for Resume-Writing Success

You don’t need much equipment to get started. Have a computer, a reliable phone line, and access to the internet. A fax machine—or an online faxing service—is nice but not necessary. That’s it. If you arrange to meet your clients in local cafes or the library, you don’t even need an office.

How to Market Your Business

Once you have your portfolio of resumes it’s time to market your business. Make up some business cards (you can get free business cards from Vistaprint.com—all you pay for is shipping) and give these you your friends and family. They should be happy to pass them out. They owe you a favor now, after all!

Don’t stop there. Is there a college in your area? Go to the career counselor there and offer your services. Tell the career counselor that you will give him or her 10% of each fee from clients that they refer to you. Post signs at community centers, on college campuses, and on bulletin boards in your area.

The absolute best way to get clients, though, is through a listing in your local telephone directory. This is where your future clients will look for you first. The telephone directory can be expensive, but it is well worth the cost.

How to Price Your Services

Take a look at how much others are charging in your area. Depending on where you live, you can get anywhere from $50-$200 per resume—and sometimes even more! But you don’t want to charge $300 if everyone else is charging $50. That’s a good way to fail in your business. You can get this information online, and on the telephone by posing as a client. In the beginning, you will want to set your prices a little lower than theirs. Then raise them as you gain experience.

Resumes are short. Once you know what you’re doing, you can finish one in as little as two hours. Let’s say you charge $75 for a resume. If you can complete 4 of those per day, and work 5 days a week—that’s $1500 dollars a week. That equals $6,000 a month, and $72,000 per year! If you can finish a resume in one hour, you just doubled your yearly income to $144,000 a year.

There’s no doubt about it. Writing resumes is a lucrative profession. And there is plenty of room for more honest, diligent people just like you to enter this field and make a lot of money. Open your own resume writing business. You will be glad you did.