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    No-Nonsense Resumes: The Essential Guide to Creating Attention-Grabbing Resumes That Get Interviews & Job Offers
    No-Nonsense Resumes: The Essential Guide to Creating Attention-Grabbing Resumes That Get Interviews & Job Offers
    No-Nonsense Resumes: The Essential Guide to Creating Attention-Grabbing Resumes That Get Interviews & Job Offers
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    No-Nonsense Resumes: The Essential Guide to Creating Attention-Grabbing Resumes That Get Interviews & Job Offers

    By Arnold G. Boldt and Wendy S. Enelow

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    For the first time ever, here’s a resume book that clears away the clutter and gets down to the “brass tacks” of what it takes to write and design a resume that will get you interviews and job offers. Authors and professional resume writers Wendy Enelow and Arnold Boldt share their insights, knowledge, and more than 35 years of combined experience to help you prepare a resume that will get you noticed, not passed over.

    No-Nonsense Resumes begins with a thorough but easy-to-understand explanation of the key elements that are vital to creating an “attention-grabbing” resume, including how to:

    • — Strategically “position” your resume
    • — Showcase your skills and achievements
    • — Format and design a professional-looking resume
    • — Select and integrate key words
    • — Prepare and distribute your electronic resume

    Subsequent chapters offer specific tips on creating winning resumes for job opportunities in virtually every profession: Administration & Clerical; Accounting, Banking & Finance; Government; Health Care & Social Services; Hospitality Management & Food Service; Human Resources & Training; Law Enforcement & Legal; Manufacturing & Operations; Sales, Marketing & Customer Service; Skilled Trades; and Technology, Science & Engineering. Included in each chapter are sample resumes contributed by leading resume writers and career consultants worldwide.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCareer Press
    Release dateNov 15, 2006
    ISBN9781601638144
    No-Nonsense Resumes: The Essential Guide to Creating Attention-Grabbing Resumes That Get Interviews & Job Offers
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    Arnold G. Boldt

    Arnold Boldt is the author of Resumes for the Rest of Us and coauthor of No-Nonsense Resumes and No-Nonsense Cover Letters. He is a Certified Professional Resume Writer and Job & Career Transition Coach, and managing partner of Arnold-Smith Associates, a career transition consulting firm.

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      No-Nonsense Resumes - Arnold G. Boldt

      Introduction

      If you’re currently in the job market, we’ve got some great news for you! According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (www.bls.gov), total employment in the United States is expected to increase by 14.7 percent between the years 2004 and 2014. What’s more, not only is the number of opportunities expanding, but the composition of the workforce is also changing. Service-producing industries such as healthcare, technology, engineering, transportation, social services, and others are growing at a much stronger pace (nearly 20 percent over the same period of time) than goods-producing industries such as manufacturing and construction.

      As the numbers indicate, it’s a great time to be looking for a job, whatever your particular situation (for example, graduating college student, skilled tradesperson, mid-level professional, senior-level executive, return-to-work mom, or military veteran). Opportunities are everywhere, and your challenge is to position yourself in the best way possible to capture those opportunities and land a great new job.

      The first and perhaps most vital step in preparing yourself for a successful job search is to create a powerful resume that will open doors and generate interviews. Bottom line: That’s the real purpose of your resume. Resumes do not get jobs; people do. Your resume is simply your calling card, designed to clearly communicate who you are, what you can do, and how well you do it. If you’re equipped with a powerful resume, you will instantly give yourself a measurable advantage over your similarly qualified competition.

      To help you achieve that competitive edge, we’ve created a one-of-a-kind resume book that clearly and concisely guides you through the resume-writing process. To be sure that this book is easy to use, we’ve cut through all the confusion and gotten right down to brass tacks—hence our no-nonsense approach. We’ve given you the information you need, provided you with the worksheets to assemble all your information, demonstrated how and where to use that information, and given you close to 100 resume samples to review. When you’re finished with this book, you should have a resume that is well-polished, well-positioned, and powerful—a true no-nonsense resume.

      Chapter 1

      Simple Truths About

      Resume Writing

      Professional resume writers know that resume writing is a unique combination of art and science; careful attention to detail and creative use of language; substance and style; and strategy and implementation. They understand that resumes are not just listings of past work experience and educational credentials, but rather they are documents designed to sell job seekers into their next jobs.

      As professional resume writers ourselves, we follow a very systematic, no-nonsense approach to resume writing that has opened the doors to new opportunities for tens of thousands of job seekers. Now, we’re going to share that information with you in the first-ever, no-nonsense guide to resume writing that gives you insider secrets to writing well-polished, well-positioned, and powerful resumes. If you follow the steps, activities, and strategies outlined in this book, you’ll be able to craft a resume that is sharp, distinctive, on-target, and effective in generating interviews and offers.

      The Six Simple Truths About Resume Writing

      Before you begin to write your resume, there are six strategic concepts you must understand. Professional resume writers live by these truths and understand how critical they are in positioning a candidate for the right opportunity.

      Truth #1: Write to the Future

      Truth #2: Know Who You Are

      Truth #3: Strategy and Positioning Are Key

      Truth #4: Sell It; Don’t Tell It

      Truth #5: Keywords Rock!

      Truth #6: There Are No Rules for Resume Writing

      If you can truly grasp what these concepts mean and how they apply to your particular job-search situation, you will be able to write a strong and effective resume that will open doors and generate interviews. Let’s explore each of these simple truths.

      Truth #1: Write to the Future

      Resume writing is about writing toward your next job; it’s not about rehashing your past experience. That is, perhaps, the single most important strategy for resume writing. If you understand it, then you’ll be well prepared to write your resume. If you do not, you’ll find that your resume-writing process becomes much more difficult than it needs to be.

      To best illustrate this concept, let’s examine the resumes of two sales professionals with similar backgrounds, but very different objectives. The first candidate, Sam, has been in sales for 12 years and now wants to move into a sales management position. To write toward his new career goal, Sam is going to place a heavy emphasis on activities such as sales recruitment, sales training, region/territory management, product positioning, sales budgeting, forecasting, and all the other management-related functions he has performed. These items, in combination with his sales achievements, become the foundation on which Sam’s entire resume is written. He needs to put a heavier emphasis on his sales management qualifications, as opposed to his field sales experience, to better position himself as an individual who is already well-qualified for his targeted management position.

      Our other sales candidate, Leslie, wants to transition from her 12-year fieldsales career into an accounting position, and her resume will be totally different from Sam’s. To write toward her future career goals, Leslie is going to highlight her experience in budgeting, forecasting, revenue planning, profit projection, cost control, and other related skills. Most likely, these functions were not Leslie’s primary job responsibilities as a field sales representative; however, they were ancillary responsibilities that she managed. As such, she needs to bring them to the forefront of her resume so that she is able to effectively position herself to make her desired transition into her future accounting career.

      To further demonstrate this concept, let’s examine the resume-writing process for an insurance agent who now wants to work as a crisis intervention counselor. Employed in the insurance industry for more than 15 years, Jim has also been an active volunteer in several community-based counseling organizations. He’s been doing this for more than 10 years, although he’s never been paid for his time and expertise in this area. Because Jim’s goal is to transition into a counseling career, the primary focus of his resume will be the skills and experiences he’s acquired through his volunteer efforts, with just a brief mention of his insurance career at the very end of his resume. The terms you’ll see on his resume will include crisis intervention, one-on-one counseling, group counseling, treatment planning, inter-agency relations, and more. If prepared effectively, Jim’s resume will communicate that he is a well-qualified counselor and not an insurance guy. In turn, he will have created a document that appropriately positions him for his desired career move.

      This concept is what is referred to as re-weighting, or shifting the emphasis of your resume from one set of skills to another in order to support your current career objectives. Decide what it is you want to do at this point in your career and then highlight all of your relevant skills, experiences, and qualifications—whether from paid work experience, training, volunteer activities, or community service. Each of these experiences is important, because each equipped you with different skills that may be pertinent to your current career goals.

      Re-weighting is an acceptable practice in resume writing. It’s what gives you the power to transform yourself into who you want to be to successfully pursue your new career goals. A word of caution, however: Don’t overstate your qualifications. If you are granted an interview, you’ll discover that you’re neither adequately prepared nor qualified for the job. Rather, always write with our motto in mind: Stay in the realm of reality!

      Truth #2: Know

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