This post serves a couple of purposes. First, and most importantly, if you are trying to build your business, you always want to see what people, be it customers, competitors, etc., are saying about you on the Internet. You don’t want to act blind-side if you’re checking your company on Google one day and end up finding some disgruntled person posting things about you on Rip-Off Report or a similar site.

Secondly, this post is about having as much information about your company as possible. Only putting up part of the story can lead to the sort of conclusions that other people can make…

…just like this one…

While searching TOG Solutions and togsolutions.com, I came across this an iPaper titled, “Types of Resume Writing Service Providers — Choose Carefully” by professional resume writer Jennifer Anthony. The 6-page document is a very well-written piece on how to choose resume writing service and what types of companies to avoid.

Ms. Anthony divided resume writing services into three categories: Professional Resume Writers, Resume Mills and Resume Typists, Typestters and Designers , with the latter two falling into the “Not Recommended” realm.

And guess where TOG Solutions fell? I’d like to say under Recommended, but sadly no.

The rationale? According to the piece, there were two reasons.

1. TOG Solutions provides desktop publishing, transcription and word processing, and added resume writing because people asked about it.
2. TOG Solutions will make your resume look pretty, but little else and won’t provide you a resume in an editable format.

Well, first first part is true, sort of. TOG Solutions did start out providing desktop publishing, but actually added both transcription and resume writing at the exact same time. And we did that not because of customer requests, but based on our experience in both area, mine in resume writing in particular.

And sure, we do try to make resumes look pretty, but we are also primarily concerned with the substance as well. I think both Ms. Anthony and I can completely agree on the fact that a fancy-looking resume will only get you so far and that the more detailed the substance, the better.

In a way, I blame myself for this happening. But, as they say, you live and you learn.

Update: Slot this one in the “All’s Well That Ends Well” file. After a brief conversation with Jennifer Anthony, she’s agreed to change out the page mentioning TOG Solutions. Again, I completely understood her point of view on writing that particular excerpt, and still do believe that it is a very good guide for people who are seeking a good resume writer!

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