The process of hiring a professional resume writing service to create your resume for you will in fact begin with a personal inquiry from you. Many services then have you fill out a form that you can submit via e-mail or fax, but the quality services will also have a person talk to you and sort of conduct an 'interview with you about yourself. This interview will give the professional resume writing service all the information they need about you and your career goals and you are then usually assigned to a specific resume writer.

This resume writer will generally contact you with a friendly e-mail or maybe even a phone call and give you all sorts of options as to how you can contact them if you need to do so. This will allow you to sort of keep tabs on the project and enable you to provide the writer any information you may have inadvertently omitted in the initial 'interview.

In most cases where people hire an article writing service and are unsatisfied with the transaction, it is largely because they failed to read the content offered by the service. This includes the content on the company's website, their communications with you, testimonials and work examples. Recognizing non-native English writers is easy because it shows in their writing. They use unnatural grammar, are too stiff or formal, and confuse singular and plural, past, present and future, etc. Taking the time to read the content will invariably reveal a non-native English writer.

Consultants can be useful for a number of business purposes, but when it comes to mediating between an article writing service and a client, they're usually nothing more than a middle man. Your writer or editor should respond directly to you - otherwise a great deal of time, effort and resources will be squandered. Consultants can get in the way of the creative process and create lags in the editing process that can double or even triple the production time for a single piece of work. However, some consultants will hide the fact that they do not do the actual writing themselves.

By directly querying a consultant, you will be able to determine exactly what his or her skills are. Ask where they trained in English, writing, journalism or literature, etc. Ask if you can have access to outlines early on. Ask what their editing practices are. In most cases a consultant won't be able to answer any of these questions and will usually reveal that they have a writer "on staff." If the consultant will be interfering with the writing process between you and the person who is actually doing the writing, it's time to walk away.