Synopses & Reviews
Is your job search stalling out after you submit a resume but before you're offered an interview? With reinvented recruiting technology, unmanageable millions of resumes choking employer databases, and government mandates in the name of diversity, a gigantic change has occurred in the recruiting world over the past several years—and it demands a fresh look at how you write and market your resumes.
Whether you're entering the job market for the first time, changing jobs, or changing careers, Resumes for Dummies, 5th Edition will show you the ropes and rules for a new era in recruiting and job finding. With 85% new content added since the previous edition, this up-to-date guide gives you the very latest strategies on how to create, and more importantly, distribute your resume in today's new job search environment. You'll learn:
- Why most generic online resumes fail
- How to customize resumes for each job opening
- New quick ways to find the right jobs
- How to use meta search engines to your advantage
- Why both digital and print versions of resumes are still needed
- How to use resumes interactively
- The resume basics that still knock 'em dead
- How to create resumes for your life's changing phases
- What to do after you send them your resume
With a wealth of sample resumes—organized by industry and career field, experience level and age, and special circumstances—along with tips on choosing professional resume help and other valuable resources, Resumes for Dummies, 5th Edition will help you get noticed in a universe saturated with billions of resumes and more on the way.
Synopsis
Dozens of all-new, groundbreaking sample resumesWrite a cream-of-the-crop resume, get noticed, and land the job interview!
Just when you thought you knew all about resumes — whoops, things change. Showcase yourself for today's employers with a simple resume-matching technique connecting your qualifications with their requirements. Get your career in gear with this bestselling guide completely updated with advanced strategies for getting noticed in a swamped job market where resumes too often "go missing."
Discover how to
- Customize your resume to get through the door
- Use new vertical job search engines to save lots of time
- Win with keywords and clean design online and on paper
- Get employers to return your phone calls
Synopsis
Incorporating the latest information on online resumes and Internet job searches, this comprehensive guide offers step-by-step directions on how to create a resume to suit a wide range of employment opportunities, accompanied by advice on how to deal with difficult situations, tips on customizing one's resume for each position, and dozens of sample resumes. Original.
Synopsis
An update of the classic guide to resumes
Resumes For Dummies, Fifth Edition cuts through the online clutter and bad advice to show readers how to craft their ideal resume for any position. It offers timeless solutions to resume problems, covers the best formats for individual situations, and presents cutting-edge strategies for getting noticed. This updated edition includes new information on customizing resumes for each position, using meta-search engine sites, and new ways to use resumes that are just coming into wide use. Employment expert Joyce Lain Kennedy includes dozens of modern sample resumes in various formats, information on keywords and e-search strategies, advice on handling difficult issues like extended periods of unemployment, changing career fields, and much more. For fresh, up-to-the-minute coverage of the best ways to use a resume today, Resumes For Dummies, 5th Edition is the job-hunter s go-to resource.
Joyce Lain Kennedy (Carlsbad, CA) is a nationally syndicated career columnist. She is also the author of Cover Letters For Dummies, Second Edition (0-7645-5224-4) and Job Interviews For Dummies, Second Edition (0-7645-5225-2).
Synopsis
Dozens of all-new, groundbreaking sample resumes
Write a cream-of-the-crop resume, get noticed, and land the job interview!
Just when you thought you knew all about resumes whoops, things change. Showcase yourself for today's employers with a simple resume-matching technique connecting your qualifications with their requirements. Get your career in gear with this bestselling guide completely updated with advanced strategies for getting noticed in a swamped job market where resumes too often go missing.
Discover how to Customize your resume to get through the door Use new vertical job search engines to save lots of time Win with keywords and clean design online and on paper Get employers to return your phone calls
About the Author
Joyce Lain Kennedy is America’s first nationally syndicated careers columnist. Her twice-weekly column, CAREERS NOW, appears in newspapers and Web sites across the land. In her four decades of advising readers — young, senior, and in-between — Joyce has received millions of letters inquiring about career moves and job search and has answered countless numbers of them in print.
Joyce is the author of seven career books, including Joyce Lain Kennedy’s Career Book (McGraw-Hill), and Electronic Job Search Revolution, Electronic Resume Revolution, and Hook Up, Get Hired! The Internet Job Search Revolution (the last three published by Wiley). Resumes For Dummies is one of a trio of job market books published under Wiley’s wildly popular For Dummies branded imprint. The others are Cover Letters For Dummies and Job Interviews For Dummies.
Writing from a San Diego suburb, the country’s best-known careers columnist is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis. Contact Joyce at [email protected].
Table of Contents
Introduction.Part I: Pitching Your Resumes in a New Era Job Market.
Chapter 1: The All-Purpose Resume Is So Five Minutes Ago.
Chapter 2: New Quick Ways to Find the Right Jobs.
Chapter 3: Spotlight Your Resume in a Web 2.0 World.
Chapter 4: Familiar Search Tools That Haven’t Gone Away.
Part II: Resume Basics That Wow ’Em Every Time.
Chapter 5: Creating Your Best Resume.
Chapter 6: Content Makes the OnTarget Difference.
Chapter 7: Wow Words Work Wonders.
Chapter 8: Refine Your Design for Great Looks.
Chapter 9: Passages: Resumes for Your Life’s Changing Phases.
Chapter 10: Successful Solutions to Resume Problems.
Part III: Bringing It All Together: Sample OnTarget Resumes.
Chapter 11: A Sampling of OnTarget Resumes by Industry and Career Field.
Chapter 12: A Sampling of OnTarget Resumes by Experience Level and Age.
Chapter 13: A Sampling of OnTarget Resumes for Special Circumstances.
Chapter 14: A Sampling of Extreme Resume Makeovers.
Part IV: You’ve Sent Your Wow. What to Do Now.
Chapter 15: References Safeguard Your Resume.
Chapter 16: Twisting in the Wind? Follow Up!
Chapter 17: Almost Got the Interview Date? Read This First.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 18: Ten (×3) Ways to Prove Your Claims.
Chapter 19: Ten Ways to Improve Your Resume.
Chapter 20: Ten Tips on Choosing Professional Resume Help.
Chapter 21: Ten Pet Peeves of Recruiters.
Chapter 22: Your Ten-Point Resume Checklist.
Index.