Winning Resums (Career Coach) [Paperback]

Robin Ryan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1997 | Series: Career Coach

Get your resume in winning form.

Career Coach Robin Ryan has helped thousands of clients edge out the competition and score the jobs of their choice. Her innovative game plan incorporates results from an extensive, nationwide survey of human resources personnel and hiring managers to offer the most effective job hunting techniques available.

Covering all the bases, Winning Resumes pinpoints exactly what you should-and should not-do to create powerful, attention-grabbing resumes. Ryan's proven Goldmining Technique(TM), an easy-to-follow, 7-step process, helps you analyze your most important skills and accomplishments, and shows you how to emphasize and custom tailor them for specific jobs. Here's where you'll find:
* Tips from hiring managers and human resources personnel on key mistakes to avoid
* Market-tested resumes that landed interviews-and jobs
* The latest information on using the Internet to post your resume
* Special sections with advice for new college graduates, senior executives, and career changers
* And much more!

Other books in the Career Coach series:
* Winning Cover Letters
* 24 Hours to Your Next Job, Raise, or Promotion.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This powerful job search tool reveals how to use Robin Ryan's Goldmining Technique to create the most effective resume possible. This proven technique is a seven-step process that brings out all of a candidates most marketable skills and accomplishments.

From the Back Cover

Get your resume in winning form.

Career Coach Robin Ryan has helped thousands of clients edge out the competition and score the jobs of their choice. Her innovative game plan incorporates results from an extensive, nationwide survey of human resources personnel and hiring managers to offer the most effective job hunting techniques available.

Covering all the bases, Winning Resumes pinpoints exactly what you should-and should not-do to create powerful, attention-grabbing resumes. Ryan's proven Goldmining Technique(TM), an easy-to-follow, 7-step process, helps you analyze your most important skills and accomplishments, and shows you how to emphasize and custom tailor them for specific jobs. Here's where you'll find:
* Tips from hiring managers and human resources personnel on key mistakes to avoid
* Market-tested resumes that landed interviews-and jobs
* The latest information on using the Internet to post your resume
* Special sections with advice for new college graduates, senior executives, and career changers
* And much more!

Other books in the Career Coach series:
* Winning Cover Letters
* 24 Hours to Your Next Job, Raise, or Promotion.

See all Editorial Reviews

Product Details

• Paperback: 222 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (August 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471190640
• ISBN-13: 978-0471190646
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,410,120 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

CBS Radio says "Robin Ryan is America's top job search expert."

Robin has made over 1000 TV & radio appearances on Oprah, Dr. Phil, Fox News, NBC Nightly News, CNN, and many others. Her articles and advice has been seen in most major newspapers and magazines including: the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times, Money, Newsweek, Fortune, Business Week, MORE, Good Housekeeping and Family Circle.

Robin spends her days working with her career counseling clients helping them advance their careers, change jobs or pursue a new professional direction. She advises them and helps them write more effective resumes, create cover letters, and prepare for interviews.

A dynamic national speaker, Robin frequently teaches audiences how to improve their lives and obtain greater success.

She is the best-selling author of: Over 40 & You're Hired; 60 Seconds & You're Hired!; What to Do with the Rest of Your Life; Winning Resumes; Winning Cover Letters; and "Soaring on Your Strengths. She has been the creator of numerous audio programs and also made two best selling audio books.

In her own words.....

"My passion is to help as many people as possible land a great job. I absolutely LOVE being a career counselor. Each day I strive to use my talents to make a small but meaningful difference in the lives of others. It is my hope you will find a job you love that makes you happy and allows you to thrive and prosper." --RR

Sign up for Robin's free eNewsletter or get her blog with job search tips at: www.RobinRyan.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The book a Technical Recruiter uses to write his own resume, March 5, 2003

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"talenthunter" (Marina del Rey, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Winning Resumes, 2nd Edition (Paperback)

I use this book when updating my own resume and when revising the resumes of others. I looked through a bunch of similar books and selected this one.

I'm ordering more copies. I gave my last one to my wife for an assistant who'd been helpful to her but was being laid off. Using this book, the woman revised her resume and got a new job at the same company making $10k/yr more - probably a 25-30% increase.

As a recruiter, I read thousands of resumes - most of them mediocre. That doesnt mean Im good at writing my own resume. I use the book's check lists to make sure I'm not missing anything.

I regard a resume as the best piece of work an individual will ever do. Its amazing what you can tell about an individual by reading between the lines of his (or her) resume. What would you do with a Quality Engineer's resume that contains errors? [Toss]! Get this book and use it . . . please.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great resume basics, October 10, 2000

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Wayne D. Ford (Lincoln, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Winning Resums (Career Coach) (Paperback)

If you don't know where to start with your resume, this book is one of the resources you should consider before putting pen to paper. It covers all the areas of resume writing, with plenty of do's and don'ts. Resumes are important and set the tone of your job search. Robin Ryan shows how to make the most of your efforts. The 53 common mistakes were helpful and amusing. I enjoyed the book.

Wayne D. Ford, Ph.D., author of "The Accelerated Job Search" and "How to Spot a Phony Resume" [e-mail]

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely the Best Resource Book for Resumes, December 16, 2009

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nana mona - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Winning Resumes, 2nd Edition (Paperback)

I used this book to obtain the position in my organization that became available after 15 years. I not only used this book to bring my resume up to par but also utilized Robin Ryan's "Winning Cover Letters" and "60 Seconds and You're Hired." I've recommended these books to at least six other individuals; four have landed their jobs!!! You have to take the time to follow the "mining" techniques but it is well worth the effort. And the suggestions on cover letters are right on the mark. I have had the opportunity within the last couple of months to fill three positions in my company and after reviewing hundreds of cover letters, I now realize how important a concise, to the point cover letter will make or break you.