ResumeMaker Career Edition

by Individual Software, Inc.

Product Features

• Everything You Need to Land a Job You'll Enjoy!
• New! Career Research
• New! Search for Companies
• New! Online Networking
• Improved! Salary Research

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00062VOWK
• Item model number: PRM-RCE
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 16, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,774 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

ResumeMaker Career Edition is the first ever commercially available, complete 5-step job search program designed to ensure you land a job you can enjoy. It's the only software designed by certified, professional career counselors with breakthrough technology to help you in every aspect of your career, from career assessment to ultimate career success.

Complete 5-Step Job Search Program

Career Planning and Assessment
Your work should be interesting, challenging, and rewarding - something you're passionate about! ResumeMaker Career Edition helps you identify and achieve your ideal career.

Resumes and Cover Letters
Write resumes and cover letters that grab employers' attention and keep them interested. Save time with thousands of new, recommended phrases, and over 250 new samples.

Search Job Openings and Companies
Never limit your choices! Powerful, new search engines give you access to more job openings and hiring companies than any other source. Tap a hidden job market for opportunities.

Interview and Salary Negotiation
It's your interviewing skills that will land you the job you want and your salary negotiation skills will get you paid what you're worth. Be prepared with all the tools and advice you need to move ahead.

Career Coaching and Advice
Even after you've landed a great job you'll need a strong performance to ensure career success. Grow your skills so your value to employers increases and set short and long-term goals.

Everything You Need to Land a Job You'll Enjoy!

New! Career Research
Receive the two most complete career reference handbooks available in e-Book format (PDF). Over 1,000 pages cover nearly ever career and help users decide their career with confidence.

New! Search for Companies
Direct connection to D&B (Dun and Bradstreet), provides access to a searchable directory of nearly every business in the U.S. and Canada - over 20 million businesses. Searching for the right company by geographic region, industry, or size has never been easier.

New! Online Networking
In a unique, joint project with LinkedIn™, ResumeMaker users can join a private, exclusive network of over one million business professionals. Network your way to your next job. Find people you need in your search through people you trust.

Improved! Salary Research
ResumeMaker's new Salary Finder shows up-to-date salary figures for most careers in all geographic regions (U.S. and Canada) and provides proven strategies to ensure you can increase your net worth.

Improved! Professional-Grade Advice
Through a partnership with Professional Resume Writing and Research Association, ResumeMaker now includes over 1,000 high-quality sample resumes and cover letters by professional writers with insider advice that leads to ultimate career success.

Improved! Search for Job Openings
Direct integration with Monster, CareerBuilder, HotJobs, Workopolis (Canada's largest job bank), and 20 others assists job seekers in searching job openings through every major career Web site at the same time - more convenient than searching sites one by one.

Improved! Resume Distribution An exclusive partnership with ResumeRabbit aids job seekers in publishing their resume on over 90 career Web sites within 15 minutes, searchable by millions of employers.

Features:

• Over 5 Years, #1 Best-Selling Resume Software (based on dollar sales of resume software)
• Step-by-Step Guided Resumes
• Search 20 Million Companies
• Post Resumes to 100+ Websites
• Professional Resume Reviewer
• Plus, .PDF and Web Resumes

Product Description

Change Your Job.  Improve Your Life!Product InformationResumeMaker Career Edition is a complete 5-step job search program designed toensure you land a job you can enjoy. It's software designed by certifiedprofessional career counselors with breakthrough technology to help you in everyaspect of your career from career assessment to ultimate career success. Your work should be interesting challenging and rewarding – something you'repassionate about!  ResumeMaker Career Edition is a new high-impact jobsearch program that helps you achieve ultimate career satisfaction. Identify your ideal career -- Finding your dream job begins with identifyingyour skills abilities and preferences. Career Planner walks you through anin-depth survey with 200 interactive questions and matches you directly withcareers that would naturally motivate and interest you.Discover the job that’s right for you -- In the past landing the ideal jobmight take months even years. Now ResumeMaker Career Edition gives you all thenecessary tools to quickly assess your career direction and connect you to thebest job openings and companies. Open yourself up to a world of new choices andjob opportunities you never knew existed. Learn when and how to change careerssuccessfully.  Whether you are advancing your career or changingprofessions ResumeMaker Career Edition helps you successfully navigate everymajor career decision and build a brilliant career. Exercises techniques andadvice from career experts assist at each step.New FeaturesNew! Career ResearchReceive the two most complete career reference handbooks available in e-Bookformat (PDF). Over 1000 pages cover nearly ever career and help users decidetheir career with confidence.New! Search for CompaniesDirect connection to D&B (Dun and Bradstreet) provides access to asearchable directory of nearly every business in the U.S. and Canada - over 20million businesses. Searching for the right company by geographic reg

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful, with a few bugs., March 9, 2006

By 

Anonymous - See all my reviews

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This review is from: ResumeMaker Career Edition (CD-ROM)

I found this software to be very helpful in writing my resume and cover letter. It walks you through the entire process, and even gives you sample bullets/phrases, customized for your target job. The software does have a couple bugs though; 1. It keeps asking me to insert my Dell Picture Studio CD, for no apparent reason. 2. When I tried to submit my resume online, the software would not download updates, and I was forced to put my available date as October 2005! Not good. Also, I emailed tech support for help, and never received a response.

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed by poor quality software..., May 29, 2005

By 

Rajesh Jain - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ResumeMaker Career Edition (CD-ROM)

I was very disappointed by this software. Sure it has some good features (that's why I gave 2 instead of 1) but the built in word processor is terrible (Nope, I was not expecting another MS Word but at least expected consistency between various features/parts of the software).

One of the supposedly great features of Resumemaker is the ability to preserve some general formatting if you choose to (e.g.) send the resume as plain text (an important thing mind you) in an e-mail. It does so by offering a number of styles for formatting your Resume.

For example, for the Summary section, you can choose a bulleted list as formatting style. Resumemaker would create one card for each bullet item you create. If you send the Resume as plain text in an e-mail, Resume maker would format each of these bullet items with a * in front. This is all nice and good, but for Rich Text Formats, you lose the ability to highlight individual words/phrases (you have to highlight the whole bullet!) So, for MS Word formatted resumes, you just cannot have bold words/phrases that call attention (I want to note here that if your style is paragraph, Resumemaker would allow highlighting of individual words or phrases).

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Dissapointed with the Resume Maker Software, June 2, 2005

By 

T. Thompson (Maryland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ResumeMaker Career Edition (CD-ROM)

I recently purchased this software from Amazon, and I've been experiencing technical problems from the moment it was installed on my computer. I am using the program at work, on my brand new Dell system, and it just won't act right! The print preview function creates error messages, and when I printed my resume the software placed weired lines and boxes on my resume. I've contacted tech support, and they are unsure as to what the problem might be. They've asked me to switch printers, remove the software, and then install the software. We've been going back and forth for about 2 weeks. I've used a previous edition of Resume Maker and I had technical problems with the software, but I assumed it was because my computer was a bit older.
As for the content of the software, I do feel that it offers some useful information. You are provided with a resume coach, with tips on the types of resume that may suit you. I'm giving this product 3 stars because of the quality of the software.