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The book has innovative ideas, which I like, but that can do more damage than good in this field. But if starting from scratch, beware. If there's a section of your resume you would like to fine-tune, this is a decent book to go to. And with all the in-depth information on different subjects, the chapter on formatting doesn't give any step-by-step examples of making a resume (or section) from start to finish. The following sentence describes the book in the same style the book describes resumes: this book inundates the reader with hundreds of ways to put together pieces of a resume with all steps jumbled together it doesn't work well as a lamp and no formatting advice for start to finish potato keywords ^Y)). possibly useful for baking.Exaggerated, but just a little.Having access to multiple resume ideas wouldn't be a problem if the reading was more linear, but since things are jumpy it's hard to tell which advice applies to what you want. Just a limited and unorganized listing of how to do certain things.Hundreds of pages and dozens of hours into the book, I eventually tossed it and found better advice online. If you want to slow somebody down on their resume process, possibly frustrating them into eternal unemployment, give them this book.
I found this book helpful. I would prefer the author impart her knowledge in a direct, no non-sense manner. Its full of great resume writing tips, but you have to read through alot of fluff to find them. While I appreciate the author wanting to explain the psychology behind her techniques, she spends a great deal of time discussing product ads (unrelated to resumes) and gives alot of "see how this helped Tom, Dick and Jane" stories that really don't provide any added benefit to the reader, in my opinion. I do like that this book provides alot of before and after resume transformations, and encourages you to develop your own authentic resume, rather than ripping one off from the book. However the book could be reduced to one-third of its size without loosing any of its vital information.
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Most of my experience is in research and process engineering, so while there were no good example resumes for my profession, I could still pick and choose ideas from the resumes that were presented.After rewriting my resume using this book, I've got nothing but compliments about the new look of it, and many have said that they're going to copy my format.And within one week I've already got a company interested in talking to me about a job.Invest in this book. I bought this book to overhaul my resume after finishing graduate school with a PhD in Materials Science Engineering.This book is really excellent in that it shows you how to sell yourself, in terms of accomplishments, job summaries, etc. There are also very very good sections on the graphic design of your resume and the judicious use of white space.The concepts in this book can be applied to any job field, but the examples seem to be slanted towards sales jobs. On Amazon it's pretty cheap, and it's much better than the "Knock Em Dead Resumes" book I also bought. I love the Knock Em Dead interview book (which has helped me get three job offers), but their resume book is nowhere near as thorough.
I coach Career Transitioners, and returning military personnel who are working on post-military employment. You've got 10 seconds to get your message across. As far as I'm concerned, Whitcomb's "trade secrets" is the bible for resume writing. Examples, reasons, surveys, worksheets--everything that's necessary to more effectively communicate who you are, what you can do for an employer, and to punch up the language so they get the message the first time. Whitcomb tells you how to do it. Jim Jarvis, [.].
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