Knock 'em dead résumés

Book - 2008

Presents detailed information on résumé writing, including step-by-step instruction for creating effective résumés, advice for online job searching, and examples of successful résumés with their cover letters.

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Published
Avon, Mass. : Adams Media c2008-
Language
English
Other Authors
Martin John Yate (-)
Item Description
Description based on 8th ed.; title from title page.
Latest issue consulted: 8th ed., published in 2008.
Previous eds. published as: Résumés that knock 'em dead.
Editor: Martin Yate.
Physical Description
v. : ill. ; 24 cm
ISBN
9781440579073
9781440536816
  • Introduction The Facts of Life
  • Chapter 1. Your Resume-The Most Financially Important Document You'll Ever Own
  • Your resume is the most financially important document you will ever own. When it works, you work, and when it doesn't work, you don't.
  • Chapter 2. Your Customer Knows What He Wants-How to Get Inside His Head
  • How to create a template for the story your resume needs to tell in order to be successful.
  • Chapter 3. Your Resume is a Garbage In/Garbage Out Proposition
  • Fifty percent of the success of any project depends on the preparation. Taking the time to gather the right information for your resume makes the difference between interviews and no interviews.
  • Chapter 4. How to Define and Build a Desirable Professional Brand
  • In any job search you are selling a product: You are a bundle of skills and capabilities suited to a particular set of challenges. Like any product you will do better when you give a distinct identity to what you are taking to market.
  • Chapter 5. Resume Formats
  • A resume's format can help emphasize or de-emphasize aspects of your professional background.
  • Chapter 6. The Simplest, Smartest, Fastest Way to Write Your Resume-Keep It Simple, Stupid
  • The most effective way to get a premium, powerful resume for a professional job in the shortest time with the least hassle.
  • Chapter 7. How to Give Your Resume Punch
  • First impressions are important. Editing polishes your content and helps it deliver a greater punch.
  • Chapter 8. Resume Customization, Alternative Resumes, and Formats Needed for an Effective Job Search
  • With the job search the way it is today, you may need to repackage your background into three or more different delivery vehicles.
  • Chapter 9. Ready to Launch
  • Everyone hates reading resumes, so here are some powerful strategies to make your resume data dense and visually accessible to distracted readers.
  • Chapter 10. The Resumes
  • One hundred-plus killer resumes that got real jobs for real people.
  • Index