Creating Your First Resume - Softcover

Troutman, Katheryn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0986142107 ISBN 13: 9780986142109

Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 2015

Synopsis

In this multiple award-winning guide, resume expert Kathryn Troutman provides a solid source of advice for not just writing your first resume - but creating an impressive one. The book was developed for recent grads and students in high school, college, or technical school. The 15 resume samples cover the diverse ways a resume can be used - when applying to college, internships or technical schools, jobseeking in the private sector, seeking federal employment, or entering the military. Older resume writers can find direction too from the easy-to-follow and actionable resume writing process the author presents.

The Guide walks you through:

• Creating a solid basic first resume
• Adding the all-important skills (hard and soft), accomplishments and keywords
• Selecting the resume sample that best fits your goals
• Using online resume builders and resume templates
• Creating a dynamic cover letter
• Applying for jobs with confidence, including handling applications and interviews
• How to write standout essays for college, scholarships or internships
• How to effectively follow up the interview
• Intelligently negotiating the offer

 
Been feeling nervous about writing your first resume? With this Guide's help, you can stop worrying. The book is based on Troutman's 40 years of experience at her Baltimore firm The Resume Place.

The guide Creating Your First Resume has received four awards!
 
 

• Foreword Reviews' Indie Book of the Year Silver Award for Career
• Global Ebook Bronze Award for Education / Career / Employment
• Independent Book Publishers Association's Ben Franklin Bronze Medal for Reference
• Independent Book Publishers Association's Benjamin Franklin Gold Medal for Interior Design 1-2 Color

 
"As a current college student pursuing a degree in visual communications, creating my first resume was an easy step-by-step process thanks to the resume formats." ~ Parrish Moss

About this title

About the Author

Kathryn Troutman lives in Catonsville, MD and is the founder and president of The Resume Place, Inc., a service business located in Baltimore, MD. The Resume Place specializes in writing and designing professional federal and private-sector resumes, as well as coaching and education in the federal hiring process. For the past 40 years, Troutman has managed her professional writing and consulting practice, publishing, and federal career training business. With her team of 20 Certified Federal Resume Writers, The Resume Place advises and writes more than 300 federal resumes per month for military, private industry, and federal clients world-wide.

Internationally recognized as the Federal Resume Guru by federal jobseekers and federal human resources specialists, Troutman created the format and name for the new federal resume that became an accepted standard after the SF 171 form was eliminated in 1995. She is the pioneering designer of the Federal Resume based on her first book, the Federal Resume Guidebook, which already is in the fourth edition.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0986142107
• ISBN 13: 9780986142109
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 60