r?sum?s (employment)

Explains how to conduct an online job search and write, design, and use an effective electronic r?sum?, with listings of job banks, r?sum? databases, and colleges and companies that advertise jobs on the Internet.

Provides step-by-step instructions for creating effective cover letters, and includes examples, advice on style and grammar, critiques of sample letters, and worksheets.

A guide to creating effective resumes, addressing issues that can cause job seekers anxiety, such as what to include, how to communicate strengths, and how to determine an appropriate length, and offering advice on writing and formatting, crafting cover letters, and maximizing results.

Contains a guide to creating resumes for first-time job seekers, providing information on tailoring resumes to specific careers with sample cover letters, and including worksheets to help gather information as well as discussing the use of the Internet as a research tool.

Presents practical advice on writing standout resumes, covering concerns of graduates, older workers, victims of layoffs, and others, and providing several format examples, discussing their strengths and weaknesses.

A guide to creating resumes that focuses on the advantages of computer-produced designs, including a twelve-step resume writing guide, instructions for making resumes scannable, suggestions for letterhead designs and cover letters, an index of job titles, hundreds of sample resumes, and other resume-writing tools.

Presents a comprehensive collection of two hundred eighty-five actual resumes that detail the do's and don'ts of resume preparation.

Presents a method of writing or revising a resume by using an interview coach to help uncover information that may then be incorporated into a job-winning document. Includes sample resumes and advice for on-line job hunting, e-mail, and computer scanning.

Provides step-by-step instructions for writing effective cover letters that will help a resume stand out to prospective employers. Includes a CD-ROM with sample letters and worksheets to help readers create a successful cover letter.