| Wow! Resumes for Administrative Careers: How to Put Together a Winning Resume Contributor(s): Lefkowitz, Rachel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0070371024 ISBN-13: 9780070371026 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies OUR PRICE: $18.90 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1997 Annotation: The first guide to show secretaries and other office workers how to create dazzling, powerful resumes that get the job! As a secretary or office worker in today's office, you are at the forefront of an office automation revolution. You possess technical skills and abilities as never before. Yet on resumes, these skills are routinely oversimplified and underestimated, and presented in a "one-size-fits-all" format that no longer works in today's fiercely competitive job market. This savvy resume-writing guide--the first and only designed expressly for office personnel--shows you how to use leading-edge strategies to sell your special skills, talents, and achievements in a polished, powerful resume that will dazzle employers. Best of all, you'll learn how to beat the competition with a targeted resume that zeros in on a prospective employer's exact needs. In addition, the book is packed with special features, including: Visual resume guides that build your resume right along with you Real-life before-and-after winning sample resumes for all types of clerical jobs Innovative strategies for new grads, career changers, and others Whether you're an executive, legal or medical secretary, an administrative assistant, office manager, clerk, receptionist, word processing or data entry operator bookkeeper, or customer service rep, this book will arm you with everything you need to produce a top-notch, targeted resume that stands head and shoulders above the rest. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Careers - Resumes - Business & Economics | Training |
| Dewey: 808.066 |
| LCCN: 96038146 |
| Series: Wow! Resumes |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 8.53" W x 10.93" (1.36 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first and only resume-writing handbook designed expressly for secretaries and other office workers, this savvy guide shows you how to use leading-edge strategies to sell yuor special skills, talents, and achievements in a polished, powerful resume that will dazzle employers. Best of all, you'll learn how to beat the competition with a trageted resume that zeroes in on a prospective employer's exact needs. Loaded with precise details, samples, and examples, it reveals how to hook an employer's interest in the first few lines; enhance all job descriptions with powerful, professional wording, transform even menial job tasks into impressive information; discover and showcase skills and achievements you never even knew you had; customize your resume to specific job positions, write a dynamite cover letter; and much more. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lefkowitz, Rachel: - McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide |