With the average American changing jobs 9 times during their work lives, the abilitly to work the job market is crucial. This step-by-step guide walks the jobseeker through the resume-writing process, offers hands-on advice and tips, and provides successful resume templates for business, education, marketing, and other fields.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Resume

Business & Money

Ireland, Susan

Job Hunting & Careers

Alpha

You're no idiot, of course. You read the classifieds every day, call your career counselors by their first names, and even help your friends write winning resumes. But when it comes to composing a fantastic cover letter, you feel like someone just slammed the job-opportunity door on your foot. Don't give up yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to The Perfect Cover Letter shows you how to write a cover letter taht convinces employers to call you for an interview. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get:

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Cover Letter

This is an updated and revised guide to help job seekers put together an attention-grabbing resume and land their dream job. Includes advice for new graduates, seniors, mothers returning to the workforce, career switchers, and more. Features dozens of sample resume styles, an action plan for a successful job search, and professional advice on creating cover letters, finessing the toughest interview, and writing thank you and follow-up letters.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Resume, Second Edition (2nd Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Tells how to plan life goals, change careers, job hunt on the Internet, assess the job market, evaluate prospective employers, update a resume, and prepare for interviews.

Get a Better Job: The Lazy Way

MacMillan Distribution

With U.S. unemployment the lowest it's been in 25 years, the job market for teens has never been better. But even in good times, it can be hard for teens to find jobs that are right for them. They still must be able to interview with confidence, stick with the daily grind and figure out how much money will be paid in taxes. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cool Jobs for Teens teaches job-finding skills (resumes and cover letter writing and interviewing techniques), job-keeping skills, being an entrepreneur, spending and saving on a salary and exploring internships and volunteering. Ideal for 12-18 year-olds.

Complete Idiot's Guide to Cool Jobs for Teens

Offers over one hundred sample resumes, and includes strategies for writing an effective resume, tips for using software programs and other resume technologies, and advice for making the most of one's experience.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Perfect Resume, 3E

Look good on paper. An updated and revised edition of one of our top career guides helps employment-seekers put together an attention-grabbing resume that will help land them their dream jobs. Features dozens of sample resume styles, an action plan for a successful job search, and professional advice on creating cover letters, finessing the toughest interview, and writing thank you and follow-up letters.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Resume, 4E

Resumé: revamped for the times, technology, and the recession... The recession has made finding a job harder than ever. Everything now takes place online, and a resumé's preparation is different than even a few years ago. This new edition has changed with the times, focusing on what's most important in an electronic resumé. Full of successful resumé samples and cover letters, the book also focuses on the key words and phrases that will bring readers' resumés to the top of the HR pile. •More than 100 samples of real-life resumés and cover letters, many of them new •Founded in real-life experience without the rigid resume-writing rules of other guides •Ideal for all job seekers, from new grads to the laid off worker, new mothers to senior citizens

The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Resume, 5th Edition: Give Your Resume a Professional Makeover and Stand Out from the Pack (Complete Idiot's Guides (Lifestyle Paperback))

Professionals & Academics

TARGET KEY A2 WB

Kosta, Joanna

Reference

RICHMOND

TARGET PRELIMINARY B1 WB

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