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    Career Essentials: The Resume: Career Essentials, #1
    Career Essentials: The Resume: Career Essentials, #1
    Career Essentials: The Resume: Career Essentials, #1
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    Career Essentials: The Resume: Career Essentials, #1

    By Dale Mayer

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    In our current economic conditions, job hunters are struggling to attain the 'perfect' job. The Internet has made job hunting easier, but has made getting the job actually harder. It's so easy to apply for jobs today that employers are overwhelmed, often receiving thousands of applications per job opening.

    Somehow, you have to make sure your application rises to the top of this pile. How? Through your résumé - it's the single most powerful marketing tool you have to showcase your skills and accomplishments.

    That's what this book is all about. It shows you how to create the best résumé for you and the job you are applying for. There are chapters on the different résumé formats and how to choose the appropriate one for your situation. There's a chapter showing you what belongs in each section of the resume and there's even a chapter on how to showcase your skills in the most powerful way.
    There is a section on mistakes to avoid and tips for dealing with any problematic areas. Underqualified? Overqualified? Each of these issues and many more are addressed in this book, as is a rarely discussed security issue from posting your resume all over the Internet.

    There is also a chapter on the power of words that will help you to maximize your writing to make your résumé the most powerful selling tool possible. Even better all this information is presented in a straightforward style that makes this book easy to read and the instructions even easier to follow.

    Isn't it time you seek out the next step in your life?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherValley Publishing Ltd.
    Release dateApr 14, 2011
    ISBN9780986968242
    Career Essentials: The Resume: Career Essentials, #1
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    Dale Mayer

    Dale Mayer is a USA Today bestselling author who writes for the young, the old and those in-between. Some of her books are hot, some are sweet. Some will keep you up at night with a light on to keep the boogie man away and some you'll want to cuddle close. She's long given up on trying to fit a specific genre. Instead she honors the stories that come to her - and some of them are crazy, break all the rules and cross multiple genres! And that's okay too. There is one guarantee with each book - it will be a great read - each and every time.

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    Career Essentials - Dale Mayer

    Back Cover

    In our current economic conditions, job hunters are struggling to attain the ‘perfect’ job. The Internet has made job hunting easier, but has made getting the job actually harder. It’s so easy to apply for jobs today that employers are overwhelmed, often receiving thousands of applications per job opening.

    Somehow, you have to make sure your application rises to the top of this pile. How? Through your résumé – it’s the single most powerful marketing tool you have to showcase your skills and accomplishments.

    That’s what this book is all about. It shows you how to create the best résumé for you and the job you are applying for. Isn’t it time you seek out the next step in your life?

    Sign up to be notified of all Dale’s releases here!

    Dedication

    This book is dedicated to Christoph, Jason, Nick and Kara, with thanks. Hopefully, the information found between these covers will serve you well.

    Acknowledgments

    The Essential Series books wouldn’t have been possible without the support of my friends and family. Many hands helped with proofreading, editing and beta reading to make this book happen. I had a vision and without all these special people, I couldn’t have made it come to pass.

    I thank you all.

    Introduction

    Writing a good novel takes time. It’s a personal journey that requires research, dedication, and a little blood to turn your thoughts into something you can be proud of. Like an aged wine, any writing improves when given a chance to breathe and expand over time. In the process, more ideas develop, better ways to say things come to you, half-fleshed-out ideas show up, and some of the lines you absolutely love, need to be cut. Writing a good résumé deserves the same effort. You need time to consider who you are, the experiences you’ve gained, accomplishments you’ve achieved, and the skills you have to offer your next employer. That’s not done in an hour or even two. Give yourself the required time to create a masterpiece that you can be proud of.

    Résumé writing isn’t new for me. I’ve written on the subject and it’s many associated topics for years. It is an important field. In our current economic situation, it is even more important to have a good résumé. You might be able to go out and get a job with only your current documentation, but then, you might not. Some people might rewrite their résumé and cover letters based on my books and still not get a job. There are no guarantees in life.

    My book can help you. Are you ready to reassess your skills and your experiences in such a way that you can present them as achievements – as something you’ve accomplished once and therefore can do again – so as to benefit a new employer?

    So many people, being caught up in the panic of needing a new job and overwhelmed at the various elements that go into this process, forget that although the job hunt is about them, the end result is about what they can bring to the new employer.

    It’s often said that the résumé is about you and the cover letter is about the potential employer. That is too simplistic. The résumé is about you only as far as it demonstrates how you can benefit the potential employer. The employer needs to find a solution to a problem. They need someone who can do something specific to keep their company functioning in a specific way. The closer you can demonstrate that you are ‘that’ person, the closer you are to landing the job.

    Does this sound too easy? In a way it is. With the Internet giving easy access to jobs and the economic situation being as difficult as it is, people are applying for jobs for which they are not qualified – ever hopeful that somehow they will magically get picked for an interview.

    Just because you think you can do a job, doesn’t mean you can. As the recruiters and employers become buried under the onslaught, they’ve had to develop ways of searching through the thousands and thousands (no I’m not kidding!) of applications for their jobs.

    Somehow, your résumé has to float to the top of that sea.

    There’s no point in complaining how impossible it is to get a job as a massage therapist if you don’t have the required education or equivalent experience. If this is the field you want to work in – great! Really, it is. However, you need to start by getting the education and certification that the industry requires BEFORE applying for these jobs.

    The answer is to find jobs in your field, providing that’s where you want to stay. You should build the best résumé you can to show this employer that you have done this type of work before and that you can do it again!

    Desperate times breed rash acts and it’s hard to blame people who are just trying to find a job. However, companies are desperate to find the right person to join their team and solve the problem they are facing. They’re frustrated at the sheer volume of applicants they have to sort through.

    What’s the answer?

    Make it easy for them to see YOU amongst all those faces.

    Let me show you how! Grab a pen, a pad of paper, and let’s get started!

    1.

    What is a Résumé?

    It’s interesting that in our modern world there is still some confusion over what a résumé really is.

    Your résumé is a marketing tool. It showcases your talents and your experience in such a way as to ‘sell’ you to a potential employer.

    It’s not a litany of your past. It’s not a personal statement of who you are in the business world. It’s a sales tool. Too many people look at a résumé as being all about them. True enough, it is all about ‘you’ but in such a way as to the direct benefit that you can offer an employer.

    Consider any sales ad, TV or otherwise. In each and every case, the message is about how buying that item benefits you, the consumer.

    Your résumé is no different. It needs to show how hiring you helps the employer.

    A résumé is a communication sales tool that clearly lays out for an employer what you can bring to the negotiating table and in such a way that they can see how hiring you is the answer to their problems. What can you offer? What problems can you solve? What sales increases have you made in the past that show that you can do it again with the new company?

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