The Executive Résumé Book [Hardcover]

Loretta D. Foxman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 21, 1989

"Loretta Foxman’s The Executive Résumé Book details comprehensive and precise strategies for the most effective résumé. It will be of significant value in helping unlock interview doors for the position-seeking executive." —Robert K. Wilmouth, President & CEO, National Futures Association "In this day of mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs, and takeovers, it is becoming essential for executives to rewrite their résumés. This book will help considerably in that process." —Robert Lo Presto, Managing Vice President, Korn Ferry International "I review over 200 executive résumés each week, and I wish they were all written to the standards presented in The Executive Résumé Book. It is right on target, easy to read, but not simplistic. The most practical, direct book on the subject I’ve seen, and I highly recommend it." —Dennis C. O’Neel, Vice President, Houze, Shourds & Montgomery, Inc. "… should be most helpful in assisting both executives who are making a job change and those counseling them." —Timothy Burns, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Citicorp Savings of Illinois "… The Executive Résumé Book, in a crisp and entertaining manner, provides fresh and revealing insights into what it takes to prepare a snappy, to-the-point, best-selling résumé." —Ted Saltzberg, Senior Vice President, Motorola, Inc. "… tells how to craft a résumé not merely as a historical condensation but as a surgically sharp job-changing instrument transmitting objectives and capabilities: an interview bell ringer." —James H. Kennedy, Publisher, The Directory of Executive Recruiters "…well written and right on target. Points out just what has to be done to get that foot in the door—with format and suggestions that make it worthwhile and fast reading." —J. Tom Kenny, Vice President, Billington, Fox & Ellis, Inc.

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From the Inside Flap

If you’re conducting a job search, here is the most complete and easy-to-use guide available to the executive job search process. Much more than just a book of résumés, The Executive Résumé Book shows you how to apply marketing strategies to the job search process, using your résumé as the chief marketing tool—and your own unique talents and skills as the service being marketed. Author Loretta Foxman developed her market-driven job search strategies in her work as an executive career and outplacement consultant. In the process of writing this book, she tested her theories in a survey of over 100 executives who hire executives. The (often surprising) survey results are presented throughout the book. While the chief focus is on creating the appropriate résumé, The Executive Résumé Book also gives you the best techniques for interviewing, networking, and writing inquiry letters. The book is filled with insider advice and information from "across the desk," including:

• Who really reviews your résumé first, even when you send it to a top executive
• Circumstances under which you might be granted an interview without first sending a résumé
• How to structure your résumé in a way that is certain to get their attention
• How to evaluate your credentials the way the hiring executive will, so you’ll know how to state them, and where to place them in your résumé

The Executive Résumé Book is the only guide to the executive job search process that applies marketing techniques to the job seeking process. It offers help and guidance for every step along the way toward your choosing that next position.

About the Author

LORETTA D. FOXMAN is President of Cambridge Human Resource Group, the Chicago office of Outplacement International Incorporated, a firm specializing in outplacement, transitions management, and assessment and organization consulting. She is also the author of Résumés That Work: How to Sell Yourself on Paper.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 2 edition (March 21, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471606332
• ISBN-13: 978-0471606338
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,683,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars some good insights into un-related aspects of job-hunting, October 9, 2001

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This review is from: The Executive Résumé Book (Paperback)

Worth a reading...gives you good insight of most aspects of the job-hunting game...well layed-out methods and strategies for preparing an executive resume, but some of the idioms used in this book are harsh and sarcastic and appears to be aimed towards the reader.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Be careful, June 2, 2000

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