Launch Your Career

After so many years in the business, we still love working with students and graduates. As most resume businesses gain notoriety, they narrow their client base down to senior executives. We know we'd be missing out if we followed that trend.

You have a brand-new set of skills, tons of energy and ideas, and maybe some extracurriculars (or maybe not). You've taken your own unique path through school – you know you've got something – but you're not sure what it is or how to get it down on paper.

Team Up With An Expert

With all his experience working in career centers at community colleges, universities, and vocational schools, Cliff knows where you're coming from. And, because he's coached so many seasoned professionals deeper into their careers, he knows what lies ahead for you.

Learn What You're Made Of

We'll help you dig through your personal, academic, and limited professional experience to reveal achievements you may have overlooked. School is often much more than class time. We know exactly how to present unpaid projects, papers, clubs, memberships, assistantships, research, awards, honors, and interests so you'll be recognized as a qualified job candidate with a bright future. If you don't have any of those things to show, we have an answer for that as well.

You've put in the time. Now, let's make you shine.

Graduate Resume: $625.00

Make Them See You

You're an expert in your field. There are things you do better than others around you. When you're at your best, time disappears and work gets done almost without thought. In fact, you've done so much over the years, it's hard to be sure you've remembered everything. How do you get it all down on paper, and in a way that truly reflects your best self?

Go A Bit Deeper

Our resume process doubles as a mini-career-coaching session: we'll guide you in remembering your greatness, and point you to the stuff that really matters. You'll gain confidence, feel more authentic, and interview better. And then, we'll build a resume that will represent you accurately and in the best light possible.

Your new Professional Resume may include an overarching branding statement that zeroes in on what you have to offer, a keyword-rich competencies section, impact statements that quantify and qualify your contributions, achievement-oriented bullet points, training and development highlights, and transferable skills. We know all the latest resume trends and we've helped people in just about every industry.

Be Your Best

There is no work history challenge we can't overcome. Indeed, we welcome complicated stories. We'll find the line and build a new narrative that invokes connection and invites inquiry.

Professional Resume: $975.00

Crack Silicon Valley's Code

Cliff got his start as a technical recruiter, working with hundreds of hiring managers all over the Bay Area for 4 crazy years. He learned what HR screeners and hiring managers want, and coached clients on catering their stories to these decision-makers' desires. It's not about spin. It's about substance.

Get Past The Gatekeepers

We need to develop the right balance of deep technical accomplishments and colloquial storytelling to please both your boss-to-be and the gatekeeping HR guards (not to mention those keyword-hungry, resume-scanning robots).

Work With A Tech Enthusiast

We partner well with STEM professionals. In fact, we've teamed up with some Engineering groups in the area and picked up an award for Best Technical Resume, in addition to our "World's Best Resume Writer" title from Career Directors International.

A large majority of our clients are in Tech, which is just the way we like it. It's a pleasure to be part of such a rewarding field of innovators, doers, dreamers, and makers... people who create new pieces of reality every day.

Show Them What You Got

Your new Technical Resume will underscore your razor-sharp technical skills through readable yet jargon-laden achievement bullets; tech-oriented problem-solving stories; itemized lists of tools, software, and methods; relevant certifications and licenses; and often exhaustive technical addendums.

You will come off both technical and communicative. Your resume will stand out above the rest.

Technical Resume: $1125.00

See How Far You've Come

If you're like most mid-career folks, you've simply been adding positions to your original resume, without addressing the fact that you've changed significantly over the years – as a leader, mentor, and expert. Your career has matured, but your resume likely hasn't.

Show Your Leadership

Management resumes have an extra layer of goodness to them because you're not only doing your own job, you're grooming and coordinating others to do their work. You're inspiring, you're corralling, you're building. This needs to be shared and celebrated.

Elements that we use in our Management Resume Service include callouts for team leadership and mentoring, side bars to showcase salient projects, and summaries encompassing management philosophy, career highlights, and/or breadth of responsibilities.  

Advance Your Career

Equipped with experience in resume writing, career counseling, and recruiting, we've guided tons of project and people managers in making meaningful transitions, expeditiously and confidently.

Let's reveal the real you and attract the position you've earned.

Management Resume: $1275.00

Unlock The Next Chapter

We elevate careers. It’s a pleasure to promote smart, ambitious leaders who have already achieved amazing things in their careers. We accept the challenge of crafting the narrative of your meteoric (and perhaps, nonlinear or unconventional) rise to the top and beyond.

Position Yourself Appropriately

BrightSide CEO and longtime resume writer, Cliff Flamer, has decades of experience, 3 resume certifications, a background in Silicon Valley recruiting, multiple awards (including the industry’s only “World’s Best Resume Writer Award”), and 2 degrees in English and Career Counseling. He continues to lead his industry in innovation and has time-tested strategies for accurately and favorably presenting rock stars on paper to win interviews and get job offers.

Change Your Outcome

Simply put, the Junior Executive Resume Service will increase your chances of being seen and short-listed by showcasing your multifaceted career trajectory in a way that is impossible to ignore.

Junior Executive Resume: $1575.00

Partner With The Best

It's a privilege to work with people at the top of their game — people who are defining and shaping industries with their vision and leadership.

BrightSide CEO and your personal resume writer, Cliff Flamer, has been generating top-tier resumes for business leaders since 1998 as a recruiter, career coach, and resume writer. He is part of an elite class of writers dually certified with the Professional Association of Resume Writers (where he scored in the top 1% on the entrance exam) and the National Resume Writers' Association (where he served on the Executive Board as Certification Chair). Cliff has won respect from his fellow resume writers as well as hiring managers, recruiters, and search firms, who regularly refer clients to us.

Gain An Inside Edge

Cliff has collaborated with hundreds of hiring executives and HR directors as a recruiter. Now, he helps his clients work their way into six- and seven-figure jobs as a resume writer and career coach. For years, he’s worked with top executives from world-leading companies in Technology, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, CPG, Retail, and others in Silicon Valley, the Bay Area, and beyond.

Outperform Everyone

You have the experience. It just needs to be expounded upon and presented in the right light to catch the recruiters’ attention and position you ahead of your competition.

Executive Resume: $1975.00

We Know Recruiters

If you're at the top of your game, recruiters are one of the best ways to get your resume shortlisted. A few words from a recruiter and, all of a sudden, you're a priority. You're the inside hire.

Spark Interest, Start Conversations

We have access to 30,000+ recruiters nationwide from a database that is updated weekly. Recruiters respond most enthusiastically to candidates who are already experts in their field and discipline, and who are pursuing job titles they've already held.

If this sounds like you, let us make an introduction with your resume and cover letter via email to generate interest from recruiters that specialize in your position type, industry expertise, and level of seniority.

We'll send you the contact information of each of these recruiters so you can follow up with them throughout your job search, even if they don't have a job for you right away.

Jumpstart Your Job Search

These recruiters are the same staffing experts contracted by world-leading institutions such as Harvard, Stanford, and Columbia, as well as top outplacement firms like Drake Beam, Lee Hecht Harrison, and Goodrich & Sherwood.

There's nothing quite like a phone call from someone who has an inside edge with employers in your field. It only takes one of those calls to change your life.

Recruiter Distribution: $395.00

Look Good On Paper

An effective resume will truly make you look good on paper, which is why we've developed a finishing service focused entirely on perfecting the appearance of your document(s).

Start Off On The Right Foot

The appearance of your resume sets the stage for how the hiring manager is going to view you.

If your resume is pleasing to the eye at a glance, the screener will search for data that strengthens your candidacy. If your resume is confusing, cluttered, unbalanced, and amateurish, that same person will most likely begin looking for reasons to dismiss you.

Show Them What You Got

It's not merely about making a pretty document.

One-size-fits-all word processing templates and resume design services fail to take into consideration your unique constellation of strengths and weaknesses, nor do they address your audience's wish list.

A compelling resume format will direct the readers' eye to your most impressive qualifications and achievements. It will make it easy for them to find what they're looking for, which means you'll get placed in the YES pile more quickly.

Resume Formatting: $245.00

Resume Update: $225.00 /hr

Get Noticed

Most of the time, cover letters are your first impression. They are also an opportunity to explain challenges you're facing that can’t be fully addressed on the resume. We’ll help you keep it upbeat, candid, and confident so the reader snaps out of their hiring stupor and wants to learn more.

Differentiate Yourself

The key is to start strong, with a quote, anecdote, success story, tag line, testimonial, branding statement, or blunt remark about your latest jaw-dropping accomplishment. We go beyond the resume's story to draw themes and patterns, mention soft skills, reframe shortcomings, and draw direct connections.

Keep Them Interested

We can be as traditional or unorthodox as you'd like, always keeping in line with the expectations of your industry and target audience.

An introduction is in order.

Cover Letter: $250.00

Become Findable

LinkedIn is the go-to resource for recruiters, head-hunters, and HR teams. It is the premiere job posting site and networking tool available. And it’s free.

You don't have to love social media to appreciate the benefits of LinkedIn: find anyone, follow companies and their top executives, see who notices you, initiate conversations with VIPs, join groups, gather resources, rekindle old relationships, and apply directly to companies.

Be Compelling

You can do anything, once you have an awesome, keyword-rich profile that conveys your story and inspires people to follow up with you. Try a simple cut-and-paste from your resume to get started, but if you really want to shine, we suggest a more personal, expository approach.

Connect with Confidence

We have a team of LinkedIn experts, including Nationally Certified Online Profile Experts (NCOPEs) with tons of success writing attention-grabbing keyword-rich profiles for job seekers of all experience levels. 90% of our customers order LinkedIn profiles with their resumes.

We know what we're doing and we can do it for you.

Let us tell your story… again.

LinkedIn Profile: $275 - 575