Resume Magic: Trade Secrets of a Professional Resume Writer

by Susan Britton Whitcomb

Book Overview

All the tricks professional resume writers use to create eye-catching, results-driven resumes are revealed in this must-have guide. Renowned as the definitive resource for writing and designing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563708914
• ISBN13: 9781563708916
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: JIST Works
• Length: 583 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.4" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

The Best Tool in Your Toolbox

I'm a professional resume writer and, by all accounts, this book is a MUST have for Professional Resume Writer (or an industrious non-professional individual on a job hunt).

This is a MUST have!

The is quite simply the best book on resume writing I've ever read. I've worked in HR for over 20 years, and I've never seen anything like this. Well worth the money. So far, I've used this book to write four resumes for family and friends, all of which have resulted in jobs. If I could have given this book 7 stars, I would have.

It worked for me!

I had what I thought was a pretty solid résumé. After reading this book, I realized that my chonological résumé was not highlighting my key strengths. I spent about 20 hours reading this book and updating my résumé. I showed my before and after résumés to several people and the new one was WAY better than the one I had been using. I started sending out my newly updated résumé and I had three job offers within a month. I can't say that this book landed my new job, but it did get me in the door.

its simple, the objective is to get invited to the interview

This is a great book that can help you be positioned at the top of the file for the interview. Whatever your skills or expertice, if it does not draw attention you run the risk of being ignored. yet, how many of us are into copy techniques? I have been in sales all my life, and to sell myself in a resume manner was a tough assignment. Im glad this book gives you the insights and the tips to tailor your abilities to what you are truly looking for, this is what is good about it, honest work with yourself to convey the right marketing. results? even phone interviews from Australia.

Great book!

This book may be long, but it is easy to get through. I loved it! I absolutely recommend it for resume writing. It took me only a week or two to read and come up with a resume I am proud of. I am also receiving compliments from prospective employers (one said it was "unique" and not boring like all the other resumes she sees).

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.I took a prioritized approach, because I was in a little bit of a hurry. I took the resume section, picked a format based on my experience, then wrote a draft. From there, I went back and picked through the writing sections to make sure that I was on the right track. If you've read the examples, and the "before and after" sections, you'll probably have a good idea already what the big picture is. From then I went on to the section on cover letters and online job searching.There are sections on virtually every subject of resume and cover letter writing, gathering references, job searching and interview preparation. Everything that you really need to get started, or just touch up on what you already know is well organized and labeled so that you can use it immediately. It's just what I was looking for, so that I wouldn't have to waste time reading the "full story" on each subject.After following the advice in this book and sending out about 20 copies of my resume online, I had about 10 replies in the first week, and about 6 requests for interviews already.