Wow! Resumes for Administrative Careers: How to Put Together A Winning Resume

by Lefkowitz, Rachel

• ISBN13: 9780070371026
• ISBN10: 0070371024
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-03-22
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

The first and only resume-writing handbook designed expressly for secretaries and other office workers, this savvy guide shows you how to use leading-edge strategies to sell yuor special skills, talents, and achievements in a polished, powerful resume that will dazzle employers. Best of all, you'll learn how to beat the competition with a trageted resume that zeroes in on a prospective employer's exact needs. Loaded with precise details, samples, and examples, it reveals how to hook an employer's interest in the first few lines; enhance all job descriptions with powerful, professional wording, transform even menial job tasks into impressive information; discover and showcase skills and achievements you never even knew you had; customize your resume to specific job positions, write a dynamite cover letter; and much more.

Table of Contents

Preface.Acknowledgements.Introduction--how to make your resume stand out from all the rest.Basic resume format--fundamentals you need to get started.The introductory sections--hook an employer in the first few lines of your resume.Job History--give yours an incredible professional polish.Education and training--how to present yours best.Technical skills and special abilities--dazzle an employer with a showcase of your skills.The end sections--hang in there, you're almost done.New grads, career changers, and all types of special situations--how to conquer your resume problems and beat the competition.From mediocre to magnificent--sixteen sample resumes transformed.Preparing the final draft.The cover letter--preparing your dynamite resume companion.Simply divine and ready to go--what to do with your resume package.Conclusion--updating your resume--now and in the future.Appendix--your guide to professional associations.Index.