Filled with "before and after" resume examples that not only teach the author's special techniques but also show why they work, "Resume Magic" divulges the secrets of better resume writing from an expert with more than a decade of experience producing powerful, effective resumes.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Resume magic:
This book is phenominal! It is simple to read and has a workable plan to constructing a simple resume that works with your cover letter.
600 pages for a book on writing a resume, impossible?:
I said, "How can resume-writing be this complicated?" before carrying this 600-page 8.5" x 11" book home. Susan Whitcomb did a good job of compiling tips and advice and presenting them at the right time. There are tips on left vs. right justification, including personal information, and picking fonts, and long discussions on CVs vs. resumes, on functional vs. chronological, on printed vs. scannable vs. ASCII, and on grammar and mechanics. She's obviously a great copyriter and page designer.
I was skeptical of this book since I've read several other books of this type that turned out to not be of much help. I must say, I was very pleasantly surprised - this book covers just about everything and does it in a way that's easy to digest. It's a thick book - 600 pages - but it reads much faster than that due to the large number of resume before/after examples.
To follow the strategies in this book will take some work on your part, but if you work at it, you'll end up with a great looking resume... more info
Valuable time saving reference and tutorial:
I started a job hunt recently, and hadn't written a resume in the last 6 years or so. I had a good idea of how I wanted to present and market myself, but I didn't have all of the fine details filled in.
This book is extensive, but well labeled. Start reading at the beginning, and every subject points you to the chapter with more information on that subject. Kind of like hyperlinks. That way you can look through at the major headings and pick and choose what you don't already know.
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