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• ISBN: 1440579075
• ISBN: 9781440579073
• Physical Description: 320 pages ; 24 cm
• Edition: 11th edition.
• Publisher: Avon, Massachusetts : Adams Media, [2014]

Content descriptions

General Note:

"A killer resume gets more job interviews."

Includes index.

Revised edition of: Resumes that knock 'em dead. 7th ed. c2006.

Formatted Contents Note:

Chapter 1 Your Resume-The Most Financially Important Document You'll Ever Own 9 -- 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 15 -- 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 33 -- 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 47 -- 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 69 -- A resume's format can help emphasize or de-emphasize aspects of your professional background. -- Chapter 6 Simplest, Smartest, Fastest Way to Write Your Resume-Keep It Simple, Stupid 83 -- 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 115 -- 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 125 -- 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 149 -- Everyone hates reading resumes, so here are some powerful strategies to make your resume data dense and visually accessible to distracted readers. -- Chapter 10 Resumes 155 -- One hundred-plus killer resumes that got real jobs for real people..

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