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The Resume Handbook: How to Write Outstanding Resumes and Cover Letters for Every Situation

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This book will help you write a cover letter and resume that will get you in the door. The rest is up to you. There are examples of both good and bad resumes along with a realistic step by step guide to building a resume. This book is good for a first time resume writer, but it is especially good for someone who hasn't been on the job market in awhile. You will be able to send your resume out with confidence.

An absolutely outstanding book. Cuts through the bull and presents its information clearly and concisely. The examples are top notch. This book is easily worth 3 times what it cost me. Thanks!

An excellent bare-bones resume book that gave me a lot of ideas of different ways to format my resume to attract attention.

A self-help book for job seekers. Its premise is the purpose of a resume is to win a job interview by standing out from competitive resumes.

The book has three stated objectives:
* Organization: how to structure a resume
* Basic Principles: what to include; what to leave out
* Accomplishments: how to write action-oriented accomplishments.

Rosenberg advocates brevity: one page for a beginner, two for experienced candidates. Specialized resumes (consultant, academic) may be longer.

Objectives are optional and not always helpful. Be sure they are consistent with your experience and skills and with the job's requirements. Otherwise, an objectives statement can limit opportunities. Use a summary of qualifications instead, or a combined qualifications and objectives section.

Rosenberg devotes a chapter to describing accomplishments. It begins with a list of action verbs, followed by a table of dull phrases paired with recommended rewrites. He includes a list of questions to elicit meaningful accomplishments, and 20 examples of good statements of accomplishments.

The book includes 37 sample resumes with notes indicating specific challenges and how they were overcome. Five bad examples are accompanied by descriptions of their errors. Three are rewritten into acceptable resumes, to provide a before-and-after comparison.

Cover letters should answer the question, "What can you do for us?" They should be customized for each opportunity and demonstrate the candidate's value to the employer. Good and bad examples are included.

A personal promo letter, a tailored substitute for a resume, may be sent to a key decision maker that may not have a specific opening. It opens with an attention-grabbing accomplishment, states why you are contacting this particular company, lists relevant accomplishments and qualifications, and closes with a specific request for action.

Includes tips on networking, follow up correspondence after contacts with hiring managers, electronic and scanable resumes, responding to ads, employment agencies, search firms, targeted mailings, and mass mailings.

If you have other recent books on resumes, you won't find much here that's different. If not, it's really all you need.

The resume handbook is awesome. By using it and two other books for examples I was able to abtain an interview for a job I was interested in. Don't know if it was successful yet but was a good sign that they called and made an appointment for an interview.

This book is so straight-out-of-high-school, its absurd. Mediocre at best. If you would like a mediocre resume with mediocre results then go ahead. Im happy I was able to get this book from a friend and not purchase myself.

"The Resume Handbook" delivers a quick, handy tool to writing the resume. It contains resume samples for managers, career changers, recent graduates and much more. Even though I recommend this book to anyone new to writing the resume, I highly suggest readers to read beyond this book. This book only gives general guidelines to what good and bad resumes look like. It does not contain extensive details on how to write each section (objective, profile, work history, etc) like many other resume books. Again, this book is useful, but definitely not enough to teach you on how to write a outstanding resume.

I have been applying to work in a highly competitive company for months. My resume is literally stacked up against hundreds of other applicants. I was having zero success because I was bragging about everything, relevant and irrelevant, on my resume... It is fine to include information only if it is pertinent to the job for which you are applying!

The book says that if you are applying for a position as a lion tamer- you do not need to include information about floral arrangements!! How true!! The job of the resume is to get you an interview!

This book is a must have if you are serious in your job search. The resume examples in it are also very current & helpful as well.

Good Luck on your job hunt!