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My first job out of university was 70% corporate tech resume writing so I
got pretty good at making my company's consultants sound like gods -- it was
pretty funny how quickly some consultants would leave once I did an update.
I still do them occasionally (freelance) and for friends in the industry.
Generally, how long it takes depends on the level of expertise of the person
and more importantly, how good their resume is in raw form. For a person who
has ten years experience and a fair amount of raw skills, I would guess it
would take 1-2 hours (including edits) to sift through the information and
churn out a good summary & resume. If you know what people's skills mean
already, it doesn't take long to work them into something. Of course, the
more you have to write yourself (vs. edit) and verify with the candidate,
the longer it takes. Sometimes I had to call people up and go through
everything on their resume line by line to get the kind of detail we needed.
The strength of the original resume is most important thing - as well as
practice -- there is a definite style to that kind of writing.
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