Resumes for Dummies - Softcover

Kennedy, Joyce Lain

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ISBN 10: 1568843968 ISBN 13: 9781568843964

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1996

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Presents steps to creating a resume, solving specific resume "stumpers," and provides samples

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From the Back Cover:

Dozens of all-new, groundbreaking sample resumes

Write a cream-of-the-crop resume, get noticed, and land the job interview!

Just when you thought you knew all about resumes — whoops, things change. Showcase yourself for today's employers with a simple resume-matching technique connecting your qualifications with their requirements. Get your career in gear with this bestselling guide completely updated with advanced strategies for getting noticed in a swamped job market where resumes too often "go missing."

Discover how to

Customize your resume to get through the door
Use new vertical job search engines to save lots of time
Win with keywords and clean design online and on paper
Get employers to return your phone calls

About the Author:

Joyce Lain Kennedy is the author of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate's column CAREERS, now in its 27th year and appearing in more than 100 newspapers.

Her twice-weekly column is carried in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Los Angles Times, the Dallas Morning News, the Seattle Times, the Louisville Courier Journal, Tulsa World, and more.

Recognized as America's favorite careers journalist, Kennedy has received more than three million reader letters. In her column, she has answered in excess of 3,900 queries from readers.

Kennedy's wise counsel about job and career development addresses universal problems experienced by most working people -- problems ranging from dealing with demotion to celebrating or coping with defining career moments. First to report on many new technologies and trends, Kennedy advises job seekers to relearn many strategies and tactics to prosper in a distinctly new job market.

She is the author or senior author of four books, including Joyce Lain Kennedy's Career Book (VGM Career Horizons) and Electronic Job Search Revolution, Electronic Resume Revolution, and Hook Up, Get Hired! The Internet Job Search Revolution (the last three published by John Wiley). The last three books are groundbreaking works for the new technology that's bringing people and jobs together.

Cover Letters For Dummies is one of an initial trio of books by Kennedy published under the wildly popular ...For Dummies� imprint: Resumes For Dummies�, Cover Letters For Dummies, and Job Interviews For Dummies�.

Writing from Carlsbad, California, a San Diego suburb, the dean of careers columnists is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis. Her e-mail address is jlk@sunfeatures.com.

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