Ebook: Resume Writing Handbook

Priscilla A. Scotian Career Services Center, 2001. — 25 pages.This book although in only 25 pages is briefly and crisply explained everything how to write good resumes. Including Tips and Techniques, Styles & Formats, Action Verbs, Scanable Resumes, 10 Sample Resumes, Career Portfolio, Resource listPerhaps one of the most important tools you will use in searching for a job is your resume. The primary purpose of your resume is to interest an employer enough to contact you for an interview. If you are sending out your resume and not getting calls for interviews, the resume is not working. The information you include and the way you arrange it will determine whether or not you get your foot in the door.An employer typically spends less than 20 seconds reviewing your resume. Therefore, it must be easy to read and show integration between your job objective and the supporting data. There are many books written on how to prepare a resume, and many opinions concerning how a perfect resume should look. Some suggested resources are listed on page
25. Summarized below are the fundamentals of resume preparation.