Winway Resume 6.0

by Nova Development Corp

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00002S80E
• Item model number: WW-010-478
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,661 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The job market is changing constantly, and WinWay Resume 6.0 adds many innovations to make your job search faster and more rewarding. Instantly access current job openings from hiring employers. Post your résumé to leading job banks, receive instant updates, and create your résumé home page. No other company does as much to ensure your job-hunting success as WinWay, and no other résumé program works as hard to get you hired.

From Winmag®

Don't let the great job market blind you to the need of a key job-hunting resource: an attention-getting résumé. WinWay Resume from WinWay Corporation includes tools for building a résumé in either functional or chronological layouts, plus a collection of tools that go beyond the résumé, such as sample interviews, for just $39.95.

AutoWriter provides selected phrases geared to your job objective. WinWay Resume presents a sample résumé with blocks for your name, objective (the job you're applying for or desire), your previous jobs, education, and references. Click on any of the blocks to open a small window and edit the text. Stymied about what to write? WinWay Resume's AutoWriter asks you to select your occupation, then offers a variety of suggestions. Under "objective", for example, I choose "Editor, Publications" and was presented with a variety of appropriate phrases. OK, some were not to my taste. I've never felt comfortable using the phrase "a challenging position as...".

However, even more useful was AutoWriter's suggestions about accomplishments. I find it extremely difficult to condense the kinds of things I've done in previous positions. AutoWriter's list of topics made it easy to phrase the work concisely, and it served as a memory jogger. AutoWriter isn't much more than a fancy copy-and-paste feature, but it's the phrases that make it worth its weight in gold.

I'm the same way with cover letters. What do you say, other than "Please find enclosed my résumé for the position of Assistant Widget Designer"? Bor-ing. Fortunately, WinWay Resume provides dozens of samples - one of which can surely be tailored to your own situation.

WinWay Resume covers careers from entry-level positions to top brass. Just out of school? WinWay's program can help you develop a résumé when your job experience is limited. Other nice features: a "fit to one page" feature; export to plain ASCII text, .RTF or .HTML; and video of career advisor Barbara Nixon.

WinWay Resume offers several predefined formatting options. For example, it offers 20 different ways to arrange your name, address, phone, and e-mail addresses; in addition you can apply one of 20 résumé themes, though I found most of them too cutesy to be used in Corporate America.

More Than Just Résumés
WinWay Resume includes other tools to help you in your career. For example, there's a set of videos that pose typical interview questions. Listen to the question, compose your own answer, then click on another button to see the sample answer. There's another video about salary negotiation I found useful.

Though the program can create envelopes, it isn't smart enough to remember the name and address from your résumé and apply it to the return-address section. I'd also like to see more professional "themes" than those provided.

All in all, WinWay Resume makes it easy to create a résumé that can help you get in the door. The rest is up to you.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Could be better., September 16, 2000

By 

charlie mason - See all my reviews

This review is from: Winway Resume 6.0 (CD-ROM)

Winway Resume 6.0 is not very user friendly. They could've made things a lot more easier with a more advanced tool bar for short cuts. The templates are good, but I recommend allowing users to keep their font styles while they switch between themes instead of losing their font settings and having to start all over. When you make changes to font styles in certain sections (address and phone number section for example), the font changes only apply to the line you edited (address)instead of the whole section (address and phone number). I am also getting error messages from Windows 98 when I try to print:"Winway caused an invalid page fault GDI.exe the program will be terminated". Sometimes I'm able to print, but several other times the program just shuts down! I downloaded the free updates before I even tried the software. Unfortunately, none of the updates had anything to do with my current problem. I hope they get this ironed out soon. If your buying this software thinking it will get you a job, your wrong. This will only help prepare you. Getting a job is based on credentials and personality.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Waste Your Money!, December 18, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Winway Resume 6.0 (CD-ROM)

Not at all user friendly. Job categories are VERY limited and do not include several major categories in today's market!

DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY LIKE I DID!!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars If it was free, I wouldn't use it.!, August 13, 2003

By 

P. Slacke (East coast) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Winway Resume 6.0 (CD-ROM)

Definitely a waste, no help at all. Crank up your Microsoft word and get a book called "How to say It...In your job search" by Robbie Miller Kaplan. Now that is worth every penny!