Testimonials for Margaret Gerety Advisors

Margaret is a delight to work with. Through probing questions, she quickly understood my background and goals for the future. Her insights were spot on and quickly addressed. I would readily recommend Margaret to my colleagues.

I can't thank Margaret enough for her work on my resume. Not only did she accurately capture my contributions and experience, but she also provided me with much-needed reflection, refinement, and confidence during a challenging job search.

I did the 1:1 Live Resume Review session with Margaret and the feedback was both helpful and actionable. She didn’t just tell me what to change, she walked me through why certain updates mattered and provided specific examples I could immediately apply. The difference was noticeable and after implementing her recommendations, my first-round interview rate increased by 131%. Overall, Margaret was great to work with and I feel much more confident in how I’m presenting myself. I would recommend her to anyone job searching.

I worked with Margaret to update and refresh my resume. It was a wonderful experience. She was able to take my past experiences and organize them in a way that really highlighted my skill set. I feel like she capitalized on my strengths and articulated exactly what I bring to the table as a new hire.

After nearly a decade at my current job, I was in desperate need of a “resume refresh.” Margaret’s expertise and thoughtful, strategic approach enabled her to highlight the most meaningful elements of my career in a way that also captured my career goals and made my resume shine. I am confident that my resume is now expectational thanks to Margaret.

Margaret assessed my LinkedIn profile and provided clear, actionable guidance on how to improve it. I learned a lot and appreciated her sharp analysis, quick pace, and supportive approach. Great investment.

I worked with Margaret to redo my resume and when I came to her it resembled a short novel, that would have never seen the light of day with any potential employer. With Margaret's thoughtful and methodical approach to building resumes we created a resume in which now friends and colleagues of mine have asked for, just so they could emulate. This was a needed step to feel confident and seen in a highly competitive marketplace.

I can’t thank Margaret Gerety enough for the transformation she brought to my résumé and LinkedIn profile. She listened carefully, asked insightful questions, and helped me uncover strengths I hadn’t even thought to highlight. Margaret encouraged me to take my time and reflect on my experience so I could truly distill what I have done in a meaningful way, supported by concrete examples. The end result not only looks fantastic but feels authentic to who I am. Because of her work, I now have a professional brand that opens doors and reflects my career aspirations. If you’re serious about taking your career to the next level, Margaret is the person you want in your corner.

After working with Margaret, my resume looks amazing for the first time in my career. That resume helped make finding a new job less stressful and speedier. Plus, Margaret is a joy to work with.

It was a pleasure working with Margaret to update my resume and LinkedIn this year. She helped me put my best foot forward, which also helped build my confidence that I was ready for a new role. I have referred several friends to her and would absolutely work with Margaret again.

I thoroughly enjoyed working with Margaret.  She was professional, conscientious, and timely.  I have a diverse professional background with long stints in the military, in the legal profession, and in the US government as a national security policy expert.  Margaret did a great job synthesizing all my skills and experiences to help me develop a compelling and noteworthy resume and LinkedIn profile.  I highly recommend her.

After twenty plus years of running my own consulting business, I was in need of an updated resume, Linkedin profile and coaching of how to go about looking for a job. Margaret's approach was approachable, efficient and most importantly, empowering. I have just started an awesome opportunity that I am very excited about - with many thanks and appreciation to Margaret and her invaluable services.

Margaret lives up to her tagline - "write a powerful resume that makes you shine" When it comes to my career, my biggest weakness is my resume. I have hired a resume writer twice so far. I couldn't be happier with the most recent results that Margaret provided. I asked her to transform my resume, more suitable for USAJobs, into something that would catch the eye of a corporate sector recruiter and she delivered.

Margaret is an excellent wordsmith. She helped me revamp my resume and LinkedIn profile as I attempt to change industry sectors. My resume and profile are clear, concise, yet loaded with necessary information.

My new resume made me feel empowered and motivated with a renewed sense of purpose and confidence. Margaret dug into my experience and translated my life's work into an articulate, compelling resume. More importantly, Margaret cares and this is really important to candidates who are in a period of transition and need support.

Margaret was wonderful to work with. She took the time to understand what aspects of my career I wanted to highlight and to get additional details from me where she thought including them would improve my resume. The resulting resume is much more powerful than it was before.

Margaret transformed my resume into something I am SO PROUD to distribute. Working with her was the best investment of my year and maybe my career, and I only wish I approached her sooner.

Margaret is a patient collaborator who helped me take stock of a varied, and sometimes meandering career path, to create a compelling and robust narrative which captures me perfectly.  Within a month of finalizing my resume and LinkedIn, an executive recruiter reached out with a promising job opportunity highly aligned to my purpose and passion. Margaret’s guidance and expertise has been critical during this career transition, and I unequivocally recommend working with her.  She is an excellent coach and a gifted storyteller.

A resume wizard! Margaret is a joy to work with and brings out the best in people on paper. Margaret quickly identified what makes me unique and brought my experience to life in a resume that is concise, impactful, and makes me proud.

I was approached within days of my LinkedIn profile update and asked for my resume by multiple executive recruiters.  I landed a new job within 3 weeks with a 35% base salary increase. I'm telling everyone about Margaret!  Best investment I ever made.

I worked with Margaret Gerety on a complete professional resume overhaul, and it was truly transformative. She took a ten-year-old document and turned it into a polished, compelling representation of who I am today. The clarity she brought to my strengths, transferable skills, and long-term goals made an immediate impact. I received interview requests within a week and secured a new role within a month of the resume being finalized. The service didn’t just update my resume; it elevated my entire professional narrative. Working with Margaret was an absolute joy. She is thoughtful, perceptive, and incredibly skilled at pulling out the essence of someone’s story. She asked the right questions, listened with intention, and translated my scattered notes and decade of accomplishments into a cohesive, confident, and authentic document. Her process was collaborative, encouraging, and surprisingly energizing. Margaret has a rare gift for seeing people’s strengths even before they see them themselves, and she brought my professional identity to life in a way I couldn’t have done alone. I feel more confident and excited about my career path than I have in years. Margaret’s work not only helped me land a new job quickly, it helped me fully understand and articulate my professional value.

It was so exciting to see my story come together visually and through Margaret’s language and organization. It definitely gave me a boost of confidence to see my story through Linked In and have Margaret pinpoint what she felt was important to communicate and highlight. I highly recommend working with Margaret to effectively communicate your unique value via the LinkedIN space and hone in on what and how you want to communicate what you do.

In the fall of 2020, I worked with Margaret to revamp my resume, and the results were outstanding. First, she took the time to understand my ~2 decades of work experience, and what I was looking for in my next position. Next, she helped to ensure that my resume focused on the skills and experience that aligned with the type of job I was targeting. Just as importantly, she helped me identify a number of irrelevant points for deletion. The result was a focused resume, that brought my most relevant skills and experience to the fore (one interviewer declared my resume to be “fantastic”). Also, working with Margaret prepared me to provide a clear overview of my experience in interviews. My search ended up being faster than expected, and in January 2021 I started a great job at a great company. Thank you, Margaret!

Margaret helped me revamp both my resume and cover letter; with her guidance I was able to land my current position as a Communications Specialist at the United States Senate. I highly recommend her!