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Resume
Resort and ACHIEVE Success - Resume Writers
International, are both founded and now exclusively
operated by Mathew and Carol Bird. The companies
have grown significantly and gone through many changes
since it's creation in 1999. We are pleased to
walk you through our exciting journey on this about us
page.
Bio
of Mathew Bird
Mathew
is an Administration graduate, where he learned the
basics of Office Administration and Resume
Writing. His portfolio includes working in various
customer service and administrative positions prior to
his career in resume writing and business
management. He also has executive level experience
having operated as President of a 10,000 square foot
non-profit youth facility. Today Mathew is the
Primary Resume Consultant and Resume Writer for both
companies.
Bio
of Carol Bird
Carol
is a Certified Holistic Practitioner/Nutritional
Consultant and published author, with an executive
background as the former CEO of a local non-profit organization
and former President of a recruitment firm. She also
holds a diploma in web-page design. Her background
in staff management and human resource level writing is
extensive. Today Carol is the Senior Writer and
Manager for both companies.
Birth
of the Resume Resort
Every
company begins somewhere - rather through vision and
planning, or simple chance. Often people look back
wondering how they ever got to where they are at in
their career. Our experience starting Resume
Resort was one we will not soon forget.
It
started in 1999 when our careers were both at a bit of a
standstill. Mathew was working in customer service
and Carol had recently released her CEO position with
the SIDS Council Inc. We had just relocated back
into Saskatchewan. Carol received a wedding invitation
that would require our small family to travel in the
next couple of weeks into Ontario. This was not something
we felt our finances would allow on such short
notice. But we were determined to make it
happen.
We
brainstormed what we could do on such short notice to
earn a few extra thousand dollars that would not cut
into our living expense budget (which was pretty tight
at the time). Mathew had a diploma that gave him
skills in resume writing and we had recently purchased a
computer. Carol was an experienced writer with a
human resources background. We thought perhaps we
could put an advertisement in our local newspaper for
resume writing and see how that would go until it was time to purchase our tickets.
Well,
to our amazement, it went far better than we would have
expected and our clients were thrilled with our
service! We reached our goal and went to Ontario
for the wedding.
When
we returned, we received a call from the local
YellowPages, asking if we would like to place an advertisement
with them for our service in the next years
directory. We gave it some thought and chose to
proceed. We placed a fairly competitive
advertisement in the directory. At the time, there
were about 8 other professional resume writing companies
in our small city. We were not sure what to expect when the
books hit the shelf.
Once
again, we were amazed at what took place. Our company
in the first year did tremendously well. We sought
out some office space and moved into a downtown
office. The company grew in that first year to
require staff to keep up with the volume of clients
coming in each day.
In
the second year - we noticed some of our competition had
dropped out, as our company flourished. We expanded
our office to make room for our staff and our private
consulting spaces needed.
Over
the next few years our company continued to thrive and virtually
all but one of our competitors closed their
doors.
We
saw our family business reach new heights as we expanded
across the province, Alberta, Ontario and the
States. By 2006 we had 50 writers at our disposal,
several Resume Consultants, many offices and an
International Headquarters.
In
2007, Carol suddenly became critically ill during a high
risk pregnancy and we had some major life decisions to make. At the time we had three
children and were traveling all over the country setting
up offices, handling recruitment and training.
With Carol in the hospital, we really started wondering
if this (our company) was what life was all about.
We
had achieved success - tremendous success, yet for
years, we had no time for family, no time to enjoy the
luxuries that success brought. No time for
anything that mattered. Carol had not seen the
faces of her children in nearly a month as her condition
was too critical for their sensitive eyes to witness.
The
decision was made at that time, that should she recover,
we would reorganize the priorities in our lives and put
our family first once again.
After
21 days in critical shape she began recovering and
was released from the hospital. She delivered a
healthy, yet premature little baby boy, who we named,
"Remiel Doron", which means, "Gift of
God's mercy". We kept our
promises and closed the majority of our offices, leaving
open only those needed to provide a humble family
income.
Today,
we operate one head office and one additional reception office,
while managing most of our workload from our home office.
For the most part, we now serve internationally to our client-base by telephone and internet.
This has made it that we can spend the majority of our
time at home and has eliminated the need for extensive travel.
The
lessons learned in our 12 year journey have been
countless. The key one being that time is
non-refundable, especially the time we have with those
we love most. If you have to invest your life
into riches, putting off everyone and everything that
matters to gain success - you will likely one day live to regret many
things - as we can attest. A simple and humble
life truly brings much joy.
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