Top 5 Resume Writing Companies In India

There is a lot of buzz these days about professional support for Resume and CV writing services. In today’s day and age, one has to use their resumes as an advertisement targeted towards their prospective employers. When I first came across the concept of resume writing, I wondered, what can be so difficult in drafting my work experience that one needs to hire a professional? This led me into researching and understanding, how and why this has become so important today.
Now, when it came down to understanding the need, I had to speak to people from both sides of the coin. Hiring Managers and Applicants; across various seniority levels. Most of them had different views on what they might be looking for from a professional Resume Writer or Consultant. Most of them had common requirements that revolved around the CV being ATS friendly, short and crisp that captured their experience, well drafted content that highlighted their seniority and most importantly appealing on immediate view.
When I spoke to leaders in the hiring chair, the most important element for them seemed to be facts and reality. Most top corporations and MNC’s use an Application Tracking System, commonly known as ATS. They feel, while it has made their lives easy in many ways, it has also become a source to reject qualified applicants, just because, they did not sport the much-needed industry related terminologies. Speaking to applicants, gave me the insight that many did not really understand what these terminologies were, irrespective of the cadre that they were at.
There are many players in the market today, who offer resume writing services. Many offer placements along with this. Now, I am not here to suggest whom to approach to draft your resume. However, my research into this, led to spotting 5 different brands with high credibility from the Indian market, catering to CV writing services.

CV Designer — https://www.cvdesigner.in

This firm is headquartered in Chennai, with virtual offices pan India, helping applicants globally. Here is a quick insight into why they reign as market leaders. CV Designer steps forward as a premium service provider in the field as highly qualified resume consultants. They pride in stating, they are not just another resume writing company and have complete understanding of region-specific demands and seniority-based writing support. This brand mostly caters to leaders who fall under the Mid to C suite cadre. Clients who approach this CV Designer stretch across multiple walks of life. As much as they have Corporate Leaders approaching them, they also have Business Owners and women who are re-starting their careers. As premium service provides, who aptly suggest what is needed for the client and what will work in their favor, post a careful analysis of the client’s candidacy even before they place an order. They help their clients stand out from the rest in the market, through real time conversations with skilled certified resume writers.
Taking a consultative approach towards drafting content, they believe in holding a dialogue with their clients rather than just skimming through existing CVs. They do not flinch to have pre-sale discussions and consultations. Their only motive is it ensure, the client who approaches them, is provided what is needed and will work to the client’s advantage. The entire team is in-house and they do not work with freelancers. Here is a quick brief into their process and teams involved in the entire process.

Step 1: Discussion Panel — Teams Involved: Certified Resume Writers. (It is worth to know, that this brand puts their writers through a vigorous training session, before they are allowed to handle their clients accounts. They render a thorough consultative approach to their clients, by gathering all the needed details and understanding the client’s requirement / expectation before suggesting to them what works and what does not. They later send out a detailed MoM to capture what was discussed and what may be needed from the client in addition to what has been provided already. Content plays a very critical role for this group and their immediate priority is to get the content right and they do not think twice to edit and iterate the content multiple times. They do not close any project unless the client says they are happy with the services.

Step 2: Drafting and Quality Check — Teams Involved: Content Head and Quality Assurance Managers. They run a complete analysis on the content drafted, overall health of the content and data points put together and later administering the needed corrections that may be needed to further refine the raw draft.

Step 3: Step 3: Client Feedback and Approval — Teams Involved: Writers and Operations Manager. They schedule a call to discuss the edits that and the client’s feedback, post which the draft is re-edited, truncated if needed and resent for the client’s approval.

Step 4: Content Approval and Design Discussion — Teams Involved: Operations Manager and Design Team Lead. After the client has provided his or her consent on the content developed on their behalf, the file is moved to the designers for a discussion to understand how the client wants to visualize their profiles. Aesthetics are given equal importance by this firm, as they believe immediate reaction to a well formatted document always has a positive impact.

Step 5: Design finalization, Feedback and Project Closure — Teams Involved: Operations Manager. The team reaches out to understand if the client is genuinely happy with the process and if they need any further assistance. With the client’s approval, they close the project and beyond that, they leave a one-year support line open.

Product Lines: Executive CVs, Text CVs and Visual / Graphical CVs
ATS Compatible: Yes
Addon Services: Cover Letters and LinkedIn Optimization

ProfileCheck Certification: Yes
IRC Certification: Yes
IHRA Certification: Yes

Years in Business: 15+ years
Price Point: â‚¹ ₹ ₹ ₹
Caters to: Mid to Senior Leaders
Geography Covered: Global
Extended Support: 12 months
Iterations and Edits: Unlimited pre and post closure

Visual CVs — https://www.visualcvs.com

Visual CVs is also a south Indian brand. With virtual assistance to the global market. With their experience stretching across what the hiring managers look for and what the ATS demands, they seem to have it right. They deliver quality content and design elements to their clients. Like CV Designer, this brand also believes in a consultative approach.
The firm caters to pretty much anyone out there in the market, who are on the lookout for resume writing services. As much as they cater to senior-leaders, they also address the needs of a fresher. However, they have restrictions on how many times they edit a file. They restrict their edits to 4 rounds. Overall, they are all also collaborative in nature, have discussions with their clients. Design exclusive templates for the aesthetic presentation and provide editable files. This company too, works with certified resume writers. Here is a quick guide to their process and operational logistics.

Step 1: Content Discussion with the writer — There is a call arranged with the writers, where the discussion, revolves around understanding their clients current experience, roles handled in the past and the jobs they would like to apply to now. Basis which, they either prompt the client to provide additional data or, proceed with drafting the content.

Step 2: Quality Check — The file is later moved to the internal quality team to check on language consistency and rectification. They take a careful approach towards content and are pretty meticulous in the process. Post quality approval, it is moved to their clients for their review.

Step 3: Client Review and Edits — With the client’s feedback on hand, they rework and edit the content and furnish an edited draft for the client’s approval. They arrange up-to 4 rounds of discussions for edits if there be a need.

Step 4: Designing and Closure — After their clients have approved the draft, they move it for designing and the team puts together a fresh outlook to the presentation of data, ensuring the most important elements are highlighted. After the client has approved, they close the project.

Product Lines: Text and Visual / Graphical
ATS Compatible: Yes
Addon Services: Cover Letters and LinkedIn Optimization

ProfileCheck Certification: Yes
IRC Certification: Yes
IHRA Certification: Yes

Years in Business: 6+ years
Price Point: â‚¹ ₹ ₹
Caters to: Freshers to Senior Leaders
Geography Covered: Global
Extended Support: Nil
Iterations and Edits: 4 rounds of edits

RWI — https://www.resumewriterindia.in

A very tactfully named firm. Very similar to the earlier brand, with just a .in and .com as a difference in their URL’s. The brand caters to freshers and mid management leaders. Based in south India, the company was established about 5 years back. They work with both in-house and external resume writers and cater to creating customized content. The client would need to provide an existing CV for the writers to understand their experience.
The firm extends complete expertise and thorough understanding of what the recruiters look for on a CV. By introducing ATS specific keywords, they ensure facts and captured and needed keywords are integrated into the content. Edits pre finalization of content seems to be limited to 3 and they mostly cater to Text CVs with a option to buy extended support and customized graphical CVs at an additional cost. Here is a glimpse into their process.

Step 1: They indulge in a detailed call to gather requirements, understand the need and their clients experience. With this understanding and data, they render the first draft to the client for their approval and feedback. The client is urged to choose a template from their archives so it can be used for their final draft.

Step 2: The draft is revised and needed edits are done to further refine the data already captured. This draft is sent to the client for approval and finalization, so, it can be moved for designing and enhancing the appearance of the CV.

Step 3: The finalized CV is moved for designing and the designer places the approved content on the design template already chosen by the client. This draft is sent to the client for an approval before assignment completion.

Product Lines: Text CV / Graphical CV — purchased with an additional cost
ATS Compatible: Yes
Addon Services: Cover Letters and LinkedIn Optimization

ProfileCheck Certification: Yes
IRC Certification: Yes
IHRA Certification: Yes

Years in Business: 2+ years
Price Point: â‚¹ ₹
Caters to: Freshers to Senior Leaders
Geography Covered: Global
Extended Support: can be purchased with additional cost
Iterations and Edits: Unlimited before designing

Resume Writer India — https://www.resumewriterindia.com

Resume Writer India, has been providing resume writing services for the last 5 years, mostly catering to the Indian and Middle East / GCC belts. This brand is comparatively placed well in the Kerala market. This brand functions in a virtual mode. While their approach isn’t as consultative and collaborative as the earlier two brands, they are much better than the rest in the market. They focus on quality and their client support is good too.

This brand works best for freshers and those in the mid management cadre. As for their approach to writing content, they also begin with a call, where the writer is involved and makes a careful note of the requirements. Their editing support does not extend beyond the project; however, they do support with unlimited edits during the course of drafting process. They have pre-made design templates that falls both under the category of a text cv and a visual cv and the client is free to choose the template they prefer. This is how they go about the entire project:

Step 1: Client Discussion and expectation setting. They have a detailed discussion to ensure the clients requirement is neatly captured and rendered as content.

Step 2: Draft is sent to the client for an approval and they coordinate through emails to have an understanding of the edits that may be needed. After the edits, the send it back for a review and this may go to-and-fro till the client has approved the draft.

Step 3: The approved draft is moved to the designers for placement. At this point, their design team emails the available templates for the client to choose from. While exclusive designs are not supported here, you can express your desire to have a different color tone it. I must add here, their pre made design elements are pretty neat.

Step 4: The content is placed on the design template and shared with the client for last minute changes before closure. Post the needed approvals, the project is closed.

Product Lines: Pre made templates to choose from
ATS Compatible: Yes
Addon Services: Cover Letters and LinkedIn Optimization

ProfileCheck Certification: Yes
IRC Certification: Yes
IHRA Certification: Yes

Years in Business: 4+ years
Price Point: â‚¹ ₹
Caters to: Freshers to Senior Leaders
Geography Covered: Global
Extended Support: Nil
Iterations and Edits: Unlimited before designing

IRC — https://ircresume.com

They have stepped forward to help their clients with CV’s that remain ATS compatible. They cater to fresh graduates and to senior level clients at very nominal pricing. Catering to the global market, this brand also has its physical presence in India. Their approach towards drafting a CV requires the client to either submit their existing resume, or, fill up a questionnaire and post that a discussion to understand the jobs the client is applying for.
The brand functions with certified resume writers, who ensure the content drafted grabs the recruiter’s attention immediately. Their editing support during the course of drafting the content is limited to 3, excluding the initial call with the writers. In contrary to the other brands mentioned above, this brand only creates text CVs and has few standard formats, for the clients to choose from. Here is a quick glance into their process.

Step 1: Existing CV review and discussion with the writer is scheduled to gather further details to draft the CV. The writer puts in the effort to get the needed details. After a discussion the draft is developed and sent to the client for their review and feedback.

Step 2: With the feedback received from the client, the writer reworks the draft to implement the changes and produces a revised draft and this is moved to the designers for them to place it on a template.

Step 3: Final draft submission of the content and design are taken care of in this phase. The designer places the content that the client has approved on the standardized template and closes the project.

Product Lines: Text CV
ATS Compatible: Yes
Addon Services: Cover Letters and LinkedIn Optimization

ProfileCheck Certification: Yes
IRC Certification: Yes
IHRA Certification: Yes

Years in Business: 2+ years
Price Point: â‚¹ ₹
Caters to: Freshers to Senior Leaders
Geography Covered: Global
Extended Support: Nil
Iterations and Edits: Unlimited before designing