Knock Em Dead Resumes 11th edition

Martin Yate

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Knock Em Dead Resumes, 11th edition. How to write a killer resume and use it to get more job interviews and job offers than you have ever had before. Every page packed with practical, easy-to-follow advice for creating your resume.

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• Self-help

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• Publié par: Jumpingdude Media
• Date de parution: 20 septembre 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780991270460
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

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Buzz for Knock ’em Dead Resumes
“Two recruitment firms both gave me compliments on my resume. At Volt the recruiter said, ‘This is the best resume regarding format that I have seen in a long time.’ At Robert Half they stated the same thing, that the format was easy to read and very professional. Your Knock ’em Dead: The Ultimate Job Search Guide and Knock ’em Dead Resume Templates have been life-savers for me!”
—P.K., Operations Administration, San Diego
“I was sending out hordes of resumes and hardly getting a nibble—and I have top-notch skills and experience in my field. I wasn’t prepared for this tough job market. When I read your book, however, I immediately began applying some of your techniques. My few nibbles increased to so many job interviews I could hardly keep up with them!”
—C.S., Chicago, Illinois
“This book is as good as it gets. Put the time into following step by step and you will have a dramatically different view of your own skills. Plus, you’ll end up with a fantastic resume.”
—J.A., Boise, Idaho
“After I sent my new resume and cover letter, I got four interviews in one week and refused two interviews. I want to say thank you: thank you for doing this for millions of professionals who work hard, and thank you for changing our lives—job seeking is life, it is for everyone who takes their life seriously.”
—N.P., Chicago, Illinois
“First of all, thank you soooo much! It was YOU who helped me move from under-evaluating myself to accurately presenting who I truly am on my resume [and, thus, at interviews]. As a result, this brought my salary up by a giant leap.”
—E.A. (no address given)
“I bought all three of your books: Knock ’em Dead Resumes, Knock ’em Dead Cover Letters , and Knock ’em Dead: The Ultimate Job Search Guide . I read each book cover to cover. I went for the interview yesterday with a mental health center. They said they would call me by the end of the week. Soon as I got home I wrote a follow-up letter; I mailed it express to get there noon next day. I got the call from the hiring manager within the hour letting me know that I have the job. I think he called me as soon as he put the letter down.”
—K.G. (no address given)
“This book was wonderful! I’ve been in a management role for multiple years and the ideas in this book helped me determine what I should be looking for. The information in the book was spot on and spoke to the reader in volumes in just a few short pages.”
—K.W., St. Louis, Missouri
“For job hunters of all ages this book is valuable. It provides a comprehensive guide to thinking about your experience, defining your personal brand and translating it into a resume that will get attention. The text and 100 sample resumes are up to date and should help the majority of searchers find a style and sample text in their field.”
—T.K., Carmel, Indiana
“After reading your book, Knock ’em Dead Resumes , I rewrote my resume and mailed it to about eight companies. The results were beyond belief. I was employed by one of the companies that got my new resume and received offers of employment or requests for interviews from every company. The entire job search took only five weeks.”
—J.V., Dayton, Ohio
“You resonated through your understanding of the realities of our current job climate and practical approaches, especially the resume Target Job Deconstruction Process. Awesome.”
—M.M., Chicago, Illinois
“I re-jigged my resume exactly as you outlined in your book and one employer said, ‘You can tell this person has a real love of PR from his resume.’ Within three weeks I had three job offers and was able to pick and choose the perfect job for myself.”
—M.W., Detroit, Michigan
“I am very grateful for your Knock ’em Dead series. I have read the trio and adopted the methods. In the end, I get a dream job with a salary that is almost double of my previous! By adopting your methods, I got four job offers.”
—C.Y., Singapore
“Your book is simply fantastic. This one book improved my yearly income by several thousand dollars, and my future income by untold amounts. Your work has made my family and myself very happy.”
—M.Z., St. Clair Shores, Michigan
“I cannot tell you what a fabulous response I have been getting due to the techniques you describe in your books. Besides giving me the tools I needed to ‘get my foot in the door,’ they gave me confidence. I never thought I could secure an excellent position within a month!”
—B.G., Mountain View, California
“I read and used Knock ’em Dead Resumes as I searched for a job. I was called for an interview and was up against ten applicants. To make a long story short, I interviewed on Monday morning and by Monday afternoon knew I had the job.”
—E.H. (no address given)
“I have averaged at least an interview per day for the last couple weeks, after two months of very sporadic interview activity. Some of this might be plain good luck, but I think revising my resume and cover letters several weeks ago had a positive effect.”
—L.E. (no address given)
KNOCK EM DEAD RESUMES
11TH EDITION
A killer resume gets MORE job interviews!
MARTIN YATE, CPC
New York Times bestselling author

Savannah, Georgia
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Yate, Martin. Knock Em Dead Resumes/Martin Yate, CPC. - 11th ed.
Revised edition of the author’s Resumes That Knock Em Dead.
Includes index. I
ISBN-13: 978-1-4405-7907-3 (pb)
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ISBN-13: 978-0-9966623-1-4 (ebook)
1. Resumes (Employment) I. Title.
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C ONTENTS
INTRODUCTION The Facts of Life
CHAPTER 1 Your Resume—The Most Financially Important Document You’ll Ever Own
Your resume is the most financially important document you will ever own. When it works, you work, and when it doesn’t work, you don’t.
CHAPTER 2 Your Customer Knows What He Wants—How to Get Inside His Head
How to create a template for the story your resume needs to tell in order to be successful.
CHAPTER 3 Your Resume Is a Garbage In/Garbage Out Proposition
Fifty percent of the success of any project depends on the preparation. Taking the time to gather the right information for your resume makes the difference between interviews and no interviews.
CHAPTER 4 How to Define and Build a Desirable Professional Brand
In any job search you are selling a product: You are a bundle of skills and capabilities suited to a particular set of challenges. Like any product you will do better when you give a distinct identity to what you are taking to market.
CHAPTER 5 Resume Formats
A resume’s format can help emphasize or de-emphasize aspects of your professional background.
CHAPTER 6 The Simplest, Smartest, Fastest Way to Write Your Resume—Keep It Simple, Stupid
The most effective way to get a premium, powerful resume for a professional job in the shortest time with the least hassle.
CHAPTER 7 How to Give Your Resume Punch
First impressions are important. Editing polishes your content and helps it deliver a greater punch.
CHAPTER 8 Resume Customization, Alternative Resumes, and Formats Needed for an Effective Job Search
With the job search the way it is today, you may need to repackage your background into three or more different delivery vehicles.
CHAPTER 9 Ready to Launch
Everyone hates reading resumes, so here are some powerful strategies to make your resume data dense and visually accessible to distracted readers.
CHAPTER 10 The Resumes
One hundred-plus killer resumes that got real jobs for real people.
Index
A CKNOWLEDGMENTS
Knock ’em Dead books have been in print here in America and in many languages around the world for thirty-plus years, and owe their success to constant updating and the millions of satisfied professionals whose careers are helped by them. This is only possible because Knock ’em Dead books work; they help you change the trajectory of your professional life.
There is a very small group who helps me write such books, and constantly update classics like Knock ’em Dead Resumes : Peter Archer, my managing editor of so many years he is now a grandfather; my editor Will Yate, who’s consistent, conscientious, and persnickety in the best of ways; and Angela Yate, who takes care of our business and allows me the time to do good work; she also acts as the first soundingboard on the many issues that can make the difference between a good book and a perennial classic.
I NTRODUCTION
The