Wow! Resumes for Administrative Careers: How to Put Together A Winning Resume [Paperback]

Rachel Lefkowitz (Author)

Book Description

Series: Wow! Resumes | Publication Date: March 1, 1997

The first and only resume-writing handbook designed expressly for secretaries and other office workers, this savvy guide shows you how to use leading-edge strategies to sell yuor special skills, talents, and achievements in a polished, powerful resume that will dazzle employers. Best of all, you'll learn how to beat the competition with a trageted resume that zeroes in on a prospective employer's exact needs. Loaded with precise details, samples, and examples, it reveals how to hook an employer's interest in the first few lines; enhance all job descriptions with powerful, professional wording, transform even menial job tasks into impressive information; discover and showcase skills and achievements you never even knew you had; customize your resume to specific job positions, write a dynamite cover letter; and much more.

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From the Back Cover

The first guide to show secretaries and other office workers how to create dazzling, powerful resumes that get the job!

As a secretary or office worker in today's office, you are at the forefront of an office automation revolution. You possess technical skills and abilities as never before. Yet on resumes, these skills are routinely oversimplified and underestimated, and presented in a "one-size-fits-all" format that no longer works in today's fiercely competitive job market.

This savvy resume-writing guide--the first and only designed expressly for office personnel--shows you how to use leading-edge strategies to sell your special skills, talents, and achievements in a polished, powerful resume that will dazzle employers. Best of all, you'll learn how to beat the competition with a targeted resume that zeros in on a prospective employer's exact needs. In addition, the book is packed with special features, including:

• Visual resume guides that build your resume right along with you
• Real-life before-and-after winning sample resumes for all types of clerical jobs
• Innovative strategies for new grads, career changers, and others

Whether you're an executive, legal or medical secretary, an administrative assistant, office manager, clerk, receptionist, word processing or data entry operator bookkeeper, or customer service rep, this book will arm you with everything you need to produce a top-notch, targeted resume that stands head and shoulders above the rest.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (March 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070371024
• ISBN-13: 978-0070371026
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,315,465 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding Resource, March 15, 2000

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Catherine (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wow! Resumes for Administrative Careers: How to Put Together A Winning Resume (Paperback)

Ms. Lefkowitz has produced an outstanding guide that is tailored specifically to administrative people. Other resume books provide the basics, but the formulas and the cookie cutter molds just don't seem to lend themselves to admin careers. Her book is a godsend for professional secretaries. Each of the chapters goes through the steps for translating the myriad of everyday tasks into clear, concise, and impressive bullet items. Her section on writing the qualifications statement is particularly helpful. She breaks it down into parts and shows the reader how to tailor it to each job posting. The examples at the end provide different examples on how to word things as well as ideas for formating and layouts (something that is important for a secretary to demonstrate some talent at doing). Using her instructions and those examples, it's easy to put together a resume that gets results! I've had nothing but compliments (and interviews) after using this book.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best!, July 7, 2007

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Catherine Marie Bursztyn "Catherine Marie Bur... (Asheville, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wow! Resumes for Administrative Careers: How to Put Together A Winning Resume (Paperback)

I paid 20 cents for this book online and I can't believe how valuable this book really is. I never realized how poorly my resume was untill I read this book. It has all types of scenarios in it such as resume styles for new grads, career changers, job hoppers, etc.

I followed the styles in this book and have had 3 interview requests already in just 2 weeks! It boggles me that the cheapest book I bought was the biggest return for me!

You will not be disappointed by this book. Yes, it was printed in 1997, but all you have to do is change a few of the words (I think they refer to Word Perfect, just change to Microsoft Office 2003). Fantastic Book!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is an excellent tool to use to advance your career, July 9, 2001

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Yejide Van Petten (Philadelphia, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wow! Resumes for Administrative Careers: How to Put Together A Winning Resume (Paperback)

This book is excellent! It has really showed me how to make my resume more marketable, and prepare me for a better career. I have passed this book on to my family, and co-workers.