Choose a Professional Resume Package

Everyone’s career path is different. To match your aspirations and goals to the best possible outcome, we offer an extensive range of resume and coaching packages from high-end executive personal branding solutions, to competitive, strategic resumes for career changers, and stand-out-from-the-pack resumes for new graduates.

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2. Click Order Now and make your secure payment at the check out.

3. Send us your existing resume and any additional information.

Once payment has been finalised and your information received, we’ll be in touch via email. Your project will then be managed using our online project management tool, Collaboration HQ, so you can check in at any time.

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Top Margin Professional Resume Packages and Career Tools

• UltraIdentity (Personal Branding/Online ID) This strategic package embraces the power of Web 2.0 by creating an online identity that promotes your "personal brand". Includes a fully branded power resume. 
• The Board Collection Impress the board with an executive-level resume that encapsulates your business successes and creates high expectations for future prosperity.
• New Horizons Whether you’re leaving a role after many years, have been absent from the workforce, accepted redundancy, or your workplace is changing, this package will get you back on track.
• Fresh Beginnings: Special situation coaching and career marketing package for executives facing redundancy. Package includes coaching to relieve anxiety, cope with feelings of loss and regain identity. Topped off with a killer career marketing portfolio, this program will leave others in the dust.
• Evidently Executive This series of senior career marketing tools, including an executive-style branded resume, is for the individual who intuitively understands the value of personal PR and working with professionals to get the job done.
• Purely Professional You are a professional—and it’s time to show it! This traditional resume package includes critical tools plus a phone interview coaching session with leading coach, Annemarie Cross.
• Unquestionable Ambition This resume and cover letter package helps you strive towards career success.
• Prosperity Ascent Plus! (The Package for Graduates) Get your career moving with this complete resume development package plus cover letter presented via email in two electronic formats.
• OnBrand-ID. Social media programs including Linked-in Profile development and more. Social media is the new way of connecting to the hidden job market, while establishing an online presence. Almost all jobseekers are "Googled" these days. What does your online presence say about you?
• Coaching Programs-Defining You and Your Career. Find real meaning in your work by investing in intensive, individualised, one-on-one strategic personal branding or coaching and training programs that help you design a career path in alignment with your life’s calling.
• Other Services  Get your existing resume critiqued, order a high-impact cover letter and review our other one-off services. 

UltraIdentity

Your Investment: $1099 ($AUD)

The internet has changed our way of our life. Uploading your resume to a job site, hitting the submit button and waiting for a job offer, is a thing in the distant past. The web today has been transformed with social networking sites like Linked-in, Facebook, Myspace and more. Reputations are made -– and lost on the ‘net. UltraIdentity is the next generation package for executives, entrepreneurs and career-minded "Gen Y-ers" who know the importance of creating, building and sustaining an online identity. Everything you do online reinforces your reputation and brand—good and bad. This portfolio of services equips professionals like you with the tools to get known, build relationships and reinforce your brand. Aimed at the technologically- and business-savvy career-minded strategist who is in the game for the long haul. 

• Analysis of your existing online identity. Can people find things about you that are “off-brand” for the person you’re trying to represent? Could these things be damaging to you? We’ll start by analysing the status quo and seeing where you stand on the 'net.
• 360 Reach Survey: Eliciting external feedback from your friends, colleagues, family members and managers allows you to get a definitive picture of how you are perceived externally. 360-degree reports produced for you in the workplace, never provide a true 360 as all information comes from work perspective. As a whole and unique person, you need feedback from all who know you well! When surveys have been received, we’ll analyse the results with you in line with your self-perceptions and work on a plan to reinforce your brand attributes so you can stand out from others.
• Brand statement development. Having defined the authentic you, it’s now time to work on your brand statement: the short sentence that speaks volumes of who you are and what you do. This will be used throughout your career marketing documents and web presence.
• Branded Resume: Complete project management from strategy development, through composition, development and formatting of a content-rich personally branded resume leveraging what has been learned about you.
• Biographical Suite: a one-page branded biography that reinforces your unique promise of value, plus a condensed power bio in a single paragraph for use in speaking engagements, advertising, brochures and more.
• Branded Blog/Website, domain name and personal email address. Blogs are one of the most powerful tools in building your online reputation professionally. Employers can get the opportunity to review more than just your career background—gaining access to your thoughts on industry issues, ideas, articles, and philosophies. Blogs place a human face on your professional persona. We project manage the establishment of the website blog, we set up your domain name (eg, johnsmith.com) and we’ll further brand you via an email address – eg, john@johnsmith.com. We will instruct you on how to easily and quickly update your résumé online in real time, create a blog post, move in and maintain your home on the web.
• Linked-in establishment. We will establish a profile for you on Linked-in –- the business networking site that will allow you to find like-minded professionals, create relationships and potentially find your next opportunity with your newly elevated presence and reputation.
• Follow-up. We will send you follow-up emails for six months periodically to check in with you, see if you’re following your goals and how much closer you are to achieving them.
• Personalised Job-Search Marketing Plan: 20+ page document that outlines your goals, courses of action to take and provides a definitive roadmap to optimise the quality of your job search. Have you considered "what next" after the resume is complete? 
• Gayle’s E-book: PS...You Need A Resume!
• Documents presented for all job search activities: Word (email), PDF (printing), e-resume (email cut 'n paste)
• Lifetime electronic storage. Free access to resume files; sent via email without charge upon receipt of request.
• 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 article and gain access to sites for overseas appointments.
• Download your resume from Top Margin’s document repository for 30 days. 24 x 7 access from anywhere in the world.

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The Board Collection

Your Investment: $1199 ($AUD)
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 branded resume development/writing and collaboration including in-depth questioning, through content assessments, strategy development, composition and formatting of a content-rich resume.
• 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 re-acquaint yourself with former colleagues, and a generic letter for responding to advertisements.
• One hour of 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.
• Professional web portfolio/blog; includes your resume, biography, charts and contact page as a powerful visual presentation that mirrors your professional worth. 
• Personalised Job-Search Marketing Plan: 20+ page document that outlines your goals, courses of action to take and provides a definitive roadmap to optimise the quality of your job search. Have you considered what to do next after the resume is complete? 
• 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 of request.
• 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 30 days. 24 x 7 access from anywhere in the world.

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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 2 weeks over the normal quoted time for development and completion.

Fresh Beginnings

Your Investment: $1220* ($AUD)

You have history of upward mobility, striding forward confident and fearlessly. Until “it” happens. Redundancies, downsizing....whatever you want to call it, you’re looking for a new gig. You’ll get a new job; you’re as sure of that as you’ve ever been. The problem is what do you do with those feelings? How do you cope with the sudden change? For a lot of people, work defines who they are and many struggle in recapturing their identity.

Fresh Beginnings equips you with the mechanisms to put the past behind you and look forward. Feelings of loss, bitterness or sadness from leaving the work “family” need to be dealt with so you can move forward with a positive mindset because emotional baggage can only pull you down. By the time Coach Annemarie Cross has completed your three one-hour customised coaching sessions and you’re armed with a killer career portfolio that will leave your competitors in the dust, you’ll be ready emotionally and professionally to hit the big time again. As only you can. 

• 3 x 1 hour Coaching sessions* with NLP Accredited Coach Annemarie Cross. Confidential, discreet and intellectually stimulating.
• Résumé and biography development. Complete project management from in-depth questioning via email, through content assessments, strategy development, composition and formatting of a content-rich, branded resume. 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.
• Online Career Portfolio including your own domain name and personal email address. Blogs are one of the most powerful tools today in building your online reputation professionally. Employers can get the opportunity to review more than just your career background—gaining access to your thoughts on industry issues, ideas, articles, and philosophies. Blogs place a human face on your professional persona. We project manage the establishment of the website blog, we set up your domain name (eg, johnsmith.com) and we’ll further brand you via an email address – eg, john@johnsmith.com. We will instruct you on how to easily and quickly update your résumé online in real time, create a blog post, move in and maintain your home on the web.

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New Horizons

Your Investment: $605 ($AUD)
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.

• Resume Development/Writing: complete project management from in-depth questioning via email, through content assessments, strategy development, composition and formatting of a content-rich, branded resume.
• DISC Profile: Workplace Motivators.  Getting in touch with your values and how it affects your behaviour can very well change your whole perspective.  What may take a lifetime to understand, can be obtained within 20 minutes.  For the career-minded job seeker, you can eliminate hours of finding the perfect fit.  Once you’ve identified your values, you can now match them with the company’s culture and be the person who truly loves his or her job.  It’s a fact; people hire people with similar values.
• 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.
• High-impact cover letter to apply for a current opportunity or as a “cold” approach to recruiters and employers.
• One hour of interview 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)
• Personalised Job-Search Marketing Plan: 20+ page document that outlines your goals, courses of action to take and provides a definitive roadmap to optimise the quality of your job search. Have you considered what to do next after the resume is complete? 
• E-book, PS...You Need A Resume! Review how the modern resume 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.
• 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 30 days. 24 x 7 access from anywhere in the world.

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Evidently Executive

Your Investment: $569 ($AUD)
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.

• Complete executive-style branded resume. Project management from in-depth questioning via email, through content assessments, strategy development, composition, and formatting of a content-rich résumé.
• 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 profile: Workplace Behaviours plus 30-minute coaching session.  Getting in touch with your values and how it affects your behavior can very well change your whole perspective.  What may take a life-time to understand, can be obtained within 20 minutes.  For the career-minded job seeker, you can eliminate hours of finding the perfect fit.  Once you’ve identified your values, you can now match them with the company’s culture and be the person who truly loves his or her job.  It’s a fact; people hire people with similar values. A half-hour review session with Accredited NLP Practitioner and Career Coach Annemarie Cross is devoted to increase your value and overall marketability to an organisation by learning how to enhance your interactions which can make 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.
• Personalised Job-Search Marketing Plan: 20+ page document that outlines your goals, courses of action to take and provides a definitive roadmap to optimise the quality of your job search. Have you considered what to do next after the resume is complete? 
• 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.
• 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-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 of request.

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Send Us Your Existing Resume

Purely Professional

Your Investment: $549 ($AUD)
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.

• Resume Development: Complete project management from in-depth questioning via email, through content assessments, strategy development, composition, and formatting of a content-rich resume.
• Dynamic cover letter to be used for any number of purposes.
• One 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.
• DISC behavioural profiling: PIAV: Personal Interests, Attitudes and Values. What is it that causes you to move into action? What are the drivers of your behaviour? What activities, careers and conversations inspire a "passion" within you, causing you to want to become involved? The Personal Interests, Attitudes and Values Assessment measures the WHY of your actions, leading to an understanding of what drives your behaviour and the attitudes that move you into action. The Personal Interests, Attitudes and Values Assessment allows you to take control of your decisions, your life and your valuing of life. You will: Know the WHY of your actions, make career choices that will increase your job satisfaction, understand the causes of conflict, develop an increased appreciation for the uniqueness of others, appreciate the viewpoint of others who see life differently, increase your "valuing" of life, increase your satisfaction and fulfillment in life.
• Three Months Unlimited Access to "Win the View" a solution that prepares and educates senior level and on-the-rise jobseekers to win interviews and build reputations through a start-of-the-art, online presentation tool that you print and present at interview. WinTheView allows jobseekers to formulate a very comprehensive, impressive and strategic presentation that demonstrates past accomplishments, focuses on strengths, and provides the company interviewing you with an insight of how you will hit the ground running when you get the job. The high level of preparation and the impressive quality presentation of the document you prepare can dramatically improve interview performances and increase your chance for getting the job by standing out in a crowd.
• Personalised Job-Search Marketing Plan: 20+ page document that outlines your goals, courses of action to take and provides a definitive roadmap to optimise the quality of your job search. Have you considered what to do next after the resume is complete? 
• 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.

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Unquestionable Ambition

Your Investment: $449 ($AUD)
You respect the power of professionalism as you strive towards career success. Funds may be low, and you may not be in the six-figure salary category yet, but you sure plan to be -- at least some day. Gain access to the tools and services used by some of the leaders in the business world--at an entry level price. Rolls Royce service and tools at a realistic price for an up-and-coming professional.

• Complete resume development. Project management including forensic style questioning via email, content assessment, strategy development, composition, and formatting of a content-rich resume
• Dynamic cover letter to apply for a current opportunity or as a cold approach to recruiters/employers.
• Personalised Job-Search Marketing Plan: 20+ page document that outlines your goals, courses of action to take and provides a definitive roadmap to optimise the quality of your job search. Have you considered what to do next after the resume is complete? 
• E-book: PS...You Need a Resume!
• Documents delivered to you electronically in Word 2003, Word 2007 (for emailing) and PDF (printing)
• Lifetime electronic storage. Free access to resume files; sent via email without charge upon receipt.

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Prosperity Ascent  Plus!--The Graduate Package

Your Investment: $399 ($AUD)
Complete resume development plus cover letter presented via email in two electronic formats. To qualify for this special priced graduate package you need to be a graduate within the last 12 months. This covers high school and University degree graduates, and TAFE students seeking first full-time employment opportunity. It does not cover mature aged people with a long career history who have returned to school. 

• A high impact resume that 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.
• Dynamic cover letter targetting career field studied to secure that all-important career break that will launch your career.
• Ebook: PS...You Need a Resume!

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OnBrand-ID Programs

Before you are interviewed, you can be assured that recruiters and/or employers will Google your name. What will they see? You dancing with a lampshade on your head? An insensitive comment about your past employer—or worse? As a jobseeker you will be searched for “digital dirt” and information about you online. Some items like MySpace or Facebook comments and photographs can be removed; some can’t. Replace or counter digital dirt with the “on-brand you" through the creation of new, professional profiles that will be rapidly indexed by Google.  And who knows? Perhaps you will re-connect or establish relationships with business professionals who are in the position to make something happen for you. (And remember, from this point—never post anything that Great Aunt Martha wouldn’t want to see!)

• UltraLink-ID: Linked-in has become one of the largest databases of business professionals globally and the tool for savvy jobseekers to reconnect with friends and broadcast intentions of jump-starting a job search to past colleagues, managers and clients. Top Margin will create a Linked-in profile for you using a combination of your responses to our short information gatherer worksheet and your existing resume. (Note: This is not a resume package but the beginning of an online presence to generate interest in you and your talents). $199 Order Now

• ID-Link: Linked-in has become one of the largest databases of business professionals globally and the tool for savvy jobseekers to reconnect with friends and broadcast intentions of jumpstarting a job search to colleagues, managers and clients from the past. We strategise your presentation and produce a Linked-in presence for you from the resume we have already created. The result: a compelling online advertisement for your services. ($99 with any resume package purchased. Already included in the ME 2.0 resume package. Ultralink-ID applies if we have not written your resume). $99 Order Now

• Cyber-ID: Your complete social media package includes the development of a Linked-in Profile, and establishment of identities at the leading social media sites: E-cademy, Naymz and Twitter. We’ll even set you up on Twitter so you can follow recruiters, job search sites, human resources companies and job boards. Start “twittering” and build your band of followers too. You never know what connections you can make. $249 Order Now

Other Services

All these services are available as additional services after the purchase of one of our packages.

Three Months Unlimited Access to "Win the View" $89.99 a solution thatprepares and educates senior-level and on-the-rise jobseekers to wininterviews and build reputations through a start-of-the-art, onlinepresentation tool that you print and present at interview. WinTheViewallows jobseekers to formulate a very comprehensive, impressive and andstrategic presentation that demonstrates past accomplishments, focuseson strengths, and provides the company interviewing you with an insightof how you will hit the ground running when you get the job. The highlevel of preparation and the impressive quality presentation of thedocument you prepare can dramatically improve interview performancesand increase your chance for getting the job by standing out in a crowd. Order Now

Web Portfolio $290. Read more here

Exciting, multi-page design with graphics, intuitive interface, automatic download of your traditional resume, and blog to share your thoughts. 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. A web portfolio site is standard in The Board Collection. If wording and content by Top Margin is required add on cost of Prosperity Ascent package. Order Now

JustaletPak $75
Standalone cover letter purchase without purchase of resume. Buy Now

Existing Resume Critique/Review $33
Your resume will be scrutinised and you will be sent a 3-5 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.Order Now 
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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. Order 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. One-hour telephone-coaching session will address your individual needs and target and allay your fears and concerns. A “must have experience” for any job seeker. Order Now

Executive Biographies $275

For use in corporate websites, business marketing, advertising, sales portfolios, annual reports or to complete your employment portfolio. One-page biography encapsulates your career background and reveals the essence of your successes. Order Now

E-Course: PS...You're a Resume Expert--Resume Mastery for Professional Writers $799

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. Order Now

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Coaching Programs: Defining You, Defining Your Career

Purposeful Careers: The Purposeful Careers^TM 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: