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Surviving The 15-Second Resume Read by professional resume writer and consultant Peggy O. Swager is a solid, practical, "user friendly" guide to what employers specifically look for on one's resume. Filled from cover to cover with a wealth of advice, tips, tricks, and techniques concerning what can (and should) be done to make a resume stand out from the hundreds others landing on a potential employer's desk in the few seconds that a may be devoted to scanning it, Surviving The 15-Second Resume Read is an excellent and highly recommended supplementary resource for job hunters seeking to secure a coveted position in today's highly competitive and volatile job market.

This is the first review I have done but I thought this book was excellent and it sure came in handy for me when I needed to prepare a resume over a weekend. I picked up `Surviving the 15-Second Resume Read' at my local library along with `Resumes for Dummies'. I looked at `Surviving' first and was glad I did. The author gives very thorough and specific instructions on how to prepare an effective and great looking resume. There are plenty of before and after examples with explanations of why changes were made. She even gets into the details of font selection, font size, and how to set up `styles' in Microsoft Word to make it easier if you have to make changes later. She mentions things you should and should not include in a resume. It's not uncommon to see things in resumes that the author says you should not include (like an Objective). After seeing some of the resume examples in `Surviving', the ones in other books don't look near as good. You can't go wrong with this book. If you only get one book on writing resumes, pick up `Surviving the 15-second Resume Read'.