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Book Description

Learn all you need to know about creating and using a resume successfully, from summarizing your achievements to targeting potential companies and replying to job advertisements. Writing Your Resume not only shows you how to decide on your career objectives, but also provides practical techniques for selecting and presenting information and creating the right impression. Power tips help you to develop first-class presentation skills that will dramatically improve your resume''s chance of standing out from the competition. The Essential Manager have sold more than 1.9 million copies worldwide! Experienced and novice managers alike can benefit from these compact guides that slip easily into a briefcase or a portfolio. The topics are relevant to every work environment, from large corporations to small businesses. Concise treatments of dozens of business techniques, skills, methods, and problems are presented with hundredsof photos, charts, and diagrams. It is the most exciting and accessible approach to business and self-improvement available. Everything a job hunter needs to know about creating and using a resume to land an offer.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Planning Your Resumé
    1. Understanding Resumés
    2. Setting Objectives
    3. Finding your Next Job
    4. Deciding on your Strategy
    5. Targeting your Resumé
    6. Understanding Transferable Skills
    7. Identifying your Transferable Skills
  3. Creating your Resumé
    1. Preparing the Content
    2. Describing Yourself
    3. Summarizing Education and Training
    4. Selling your Experience
    5. Describing your Experience
    6. Deciding on Look
    7. Getting it Right
  4. Putting your Resumé Together
    1. Adapting your Resumé
    2. Applying for your First Job
    3. Making your First Career Change
    4. Changing Jobs Mid-Career
    5. Looking for a Change of Direction
    6. Returning to Work
  5. Using your Resumé
    1. Replying to Job Advertisements
    2. Contacting Recruitment Companies
    3. Canvassing Employers
    4. Using the Internet
    5. Keeping up your Job Search
    6. Assessing your Skills
    7. Analyzing your Profile
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