Book Description
An informative and up-to-date resource for job seekers who are looking for solid direction from Fortune 500 executives. War, recession, and political uncertainty have forced many corporations to regroup, and downsizing has been the dreaded outcome for millions of workers. Fired and laid-off employees are swelling the ranks of job seekers and creating stiff competition for a dwindling number of positions. In this harsh business climate, many applicants are finding that just getting in the door for an interview poses an enormous challenge.
So what's happening on the other side of the desk-as employers review huge piles of prospective resumes? What catches their attention? What turns them off? Author Brenda Greene surveyed 50 Fortune 500 employers to find out and gained valuable insight into just what it takes to command attention and interest in a crowded field. Packed with sample resumes and cover letters that represent what hiring managers, directors, and vice presidents want to see, Get the Interview Every Time shows and tells what's expected versus what's rejected.
Readers will learn how to:
• Research the company and its opportunities before sending any resumes.
• Distill all of their talent and experience into a few well-chosen words.
• Showcase their communication skills through a well- crafted cover letter.
• Avoid hype and ""resume-speak""-easily spotted and reviled.
• Determine the resume style that looks and works the best.
• Design and submit an electronic resume correctly.
Get the Interview Every Time breaks down the monumental task of landing an interview into a series of manageable steps, easy to understand and inspiring to follow. Designed to transform confused, disheartened job applicants into savvy, prospective employees, Get the Interview Every Time shows how to ""open the gates"" through sensible, targeted self-marketing.
Customer Reviews:
More comprehensive than other résumé/cover letter books.......2007-10-05
This book is more comprehensive than other job hunting books in that it explains the basics of job searching, professional résumés, and cover letters very well. It gives some advice on where to search for jobs, networking, and how to send in job applications via electronic and written formats. If you are only going to buy one book to prepare for a job search and the application process, I would recommend this book over several others.
The downside of this book is that it does little to prepare you for the modern inevitability of having to submit your application through a standardized and faceless corporate website. Any advice on formatting your résumé, writing a cover letter, or writing professional contact emails is unnecessary when companies force you to "spray and pray" your application to their non-communicative and poorly staffed HR departments. Nothing is more discouraging than having your perfect cover letter and résumé butchered by having to fill in standardized forms on the web.
Excellent Resource.......2007-01-04
This book was very helpful. It has a lot of examples of cover letters and resumes. Also, it has comments from actual hiring managers and some contradict each other. That is helpful because it shows that not all HR departments feel the same way about resumes and the key is to appeal to as many as you can.
Excellent Resource.......2006-03-14
This book was very well done. There are many sample resumes in the back and also sample cover letters. The content of the book explained what to put on your resume and cover letter and what employers are looking for. This is a great resource for anyone looking for some guidance on how to develop their resume and cover letter.
Excellent Layout.......2006-02-25
Excellent presentation of the material in an easy to follow format. Allows the reader to pinpoint exact areas of interest, and contains only information pertainent to the title.
A must have for writing resumes with confidence and skill.
Incredible Resource.......2005-09-14
I highly recommend this book for people who want a complete approach to finding a new job. The author took the time to interview tons of HR people at top-notch companies and share valuable insights with the reader.
Book Description
Completely updated for today's competitive job market!
In today's competitive job market, it has become more important than ever that candidates prepare a strong cover letter. A well-worded cover letter not only gets the attention of recruiters, HR personnel, and managers, it often sets one candidate apart from the others and helps ensure the all-important interview. Featuring more than 100 brand-new cover letter samples for dozens of new industry jobs, this all-new edition of The Everything Cover Letter Book includes all one needs to know-whether job seekers are applying online or to a traditional print classified ad.
Readers benefit from experienced advice on how to:
Adapt a cover letter to be application-appropriate
Write follow-up correspondences, including post-interview thank-you letters
Know what words to avoid
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Job-Winning Resumes, Third Edition is the most helpful and comprehensive resume book you can buy. It includes more than 400 success-proven resume examples that teach you how to personalize your resume according to your own unique career situation. The 17 chapters contain resumes that cover all major industries, span every job level from entry-level to CEO, and are helpfully arranged by both job field and title to make it easy for you to quickly locate the resumes that address your particular field or situation.
The first chapter - "The Essentials of Writing Your Resume" - is as informative as it is brief. It includes expert advice about what information to include in your resume, what to omit, what to emphasize, and what to tone down. For a quick start, it's specifically designed to keep reading to a minimum so you can start sending out your resume as soon as possible.
The second chapter, devoted to creating hard-hitting cover letters, includes 40 examples that cover a wide variety of typical career situations. And for those not-so-typical career situations, the next chapter includes 30 resumes that cover difficult circumstances such as frequent job changes, gaps in employment, layoff, lack of experience, weak education, and many more. For students, there's also a chapter containing 40 resumes to help new graduates enter the work force more quickly and easily.
There are helpful hints located beneath each resume, showing you the right way to quickly create a job-winning resume that will get attention and win you an interview. The last chapter includes a Recommended Reading list and a Recommended Web Site list.
Whatever your age, industry, career, level of experience or education, you'll find the resume template you need!
Customer Reviews:
Encyclopedia of Job-Winning Resumes is for you.......2006-11-07
If you need a template for any kind of resume or cover letters and want plenty of examples to choose from, Encyclopedia of Job-Winning Resumes is for you. Its contents have been tested as job-winning, examples are provided which show how to personalize an approach for a particular kind of job, and expert advice throughout supplements the templates.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
Good Overall Reference.......2000-04-10
I purchased this book for my niece when she was graduating from college. She found it very useful. I am also now in the market for a new job and borrowed the book from her and have enjoyed it so much that I am purchasing my own copy. There is a lot of good recommendations on how to keep your resume short and concise. It also provides different examples for a variety of positions. The one drawback I had was that it didn't make reference to including email addresses and web sites.
Book Description
Although a resume is important, the cover letter is the first impression. This book is a compilation of great cover letters that helped real people get in the door for job interviews against stiff competition. Included are letters that show how to approach employers when you're moving to a new area, how to write a cover when you're changing fields or industries, and how to arouse the employer's interest to dial your number first from a stack of other resumes. This book is part of the Anne McKinney Career Series by PREP Publishing.
Customer Reviews:
Write good cover letters with this book.......2001-03-13
This book will telly ou how to be takin seriouskly by the residents fo the local area where you liv. As a food service worker, lots of poeple compete fo rthe jobs that I wqaant. Not amny have a cover leeter gooder than mine thanks to htis book. Very good by it for you and give it to yoru frineds and relatives. They will thank you with a good job!
Book Description
"Robin Ryan is the hottest career expert in America today."
--Susan Cowden, TV anchor, NW Cable News
LAND YOUR DREAM JOB WITH THE PERFECT COVER LETTER
With the expert advice of Robin Ryan, one of America's top career coaches, thousands of job hunters have beaten the competition and landed their ideal jobs. Her innovative and simple step-by-step plan incorporates the results of an extensive, nationwide survey of hiring managers and human resources personnel to offer proven, world-class job hunting techniques and strategies.
You'll create powerful, attention-grabbing letters, avoid costly mistakes, and learn to sell yourself and your skills to the employers you want to work for. With Ryan's popular and highly effective Power Impact Techniqueâ¢, you'll have employers hunting you. This newly updated Second Edition features even more Winning Cover Letters, examples of what not to do, and new chapters on using the Internet, marketing yourself, and much more:
- Fatal mistakes to avoid as viewed by human resources professionals who've seen it all
- World-class cover letters that landed interviews and jobs
- Exercises to help you assess your skills and accomplishments
- The writing technique selected by 960f hiring managers as their preferred style
- A new, special section for top executives-including CEOs, presidents, and vice presidents
- New advice for those in the creative arts, new graduates, volunteers, and career changers
- Tips on writing target letters to catch the eye of the employers you want to work for
"This book is a major breakthrough,teaching you how to easily write effective cover letters that employers will respond to."
-Mark Tranter, founder, America4Hire
"By far, this is the best book ever written on writing cover letters."
-Sandy Dehan, HR Manager, Fortune 500 company
"My dream job called after I mailed my first cover letter. I landed the job and owe it all to Robin Ryan's effective techniques."
-Marianne Jones, client
Customer Reviews:
This book works!.......2006-09-21
I have bought two of Robin Ryan's books, "60 Seconds and You're Hired" and "Soaring on Your Strengths." I believe the 60 Seconds book was instrumental when I landed the job I currently have. I practiced my 60-second pitch and I think it helped me secure the job. One of the interviewers told me later that I was "the cream of the crop,": focused on the job requirements and how I could satisfy them. I've been happy at this job, but started to wonder if I could do better and make more money somewhere else. For the last three or so months, I have been diligently answering ads but not always including a cover letter. My rationale: Why bother? It's too much work, and people don't read them anyway, and if they do, it's only for a few seconds. They'll hire me on the strenghts of my resume. Boy was I wrong.
I have to give Ms. Robin props for writing this effective book. I gauge its success by the results it delivers, and deliver it does. Using one of the techniques she outlines, I sent off a resume and cover letter for a job that's related to my current field but not in the industry I'm in, but pays almost double my current salary. I followed the guidelines and sent them off as a test to see what would happend.
I was amazed that after only two hours of sending off the resume and cover letter, I got an e-mail from the recruiter wanting an interview. Wow--that has never happened to me before. It was even more amazing because it's a very competitive field with plenty of qualified applicants.
I'm now convinced that I will never send off a resume without a thoughtful cover letter that addresses the job at hand and how my experience fits the bill.
If you've been job hunting without success, get this book. It's a very competitive out there and anything that can help distinquish you from the pack is worth the effort. This book helped me focus on my strengths and accomplishments. Its small price belies the wealth of information and insight you'll get.
Lots useful advice and common sense.......2006-03-21
I found this book really useful and could not stop wondering how could so much common sense escape my understanding before? Ms Ryan's advice is pretty obvious, however, here we are doing it wrong once and again. I can't say this book is responsible for me getting or not getting interviews so far, but at least I now feel confident enough to think I'm sending a decent cover letter. If you think that this book is going to make the process of cover letter writing faster and easier, you'll get disappointed since it is rather the opposite. But what has to be done has to be done and at least now you know. I didn't give it 5 stars because it gets too repetitive, full of examples that are great, but as usual, there may be one in twenty (if any) that even resembles one's own situation.
http://diaryofajobhunter.blogspot.com
Great, practical advice.......2005-01-10
What this book does well is respond to specific scenarios, and then provide examples of resumes and cover letters. I previously considered cover letters to be pretty useless, but after reviewing this book I can see how a good one could make a difference. An HR friend of mine also stressed that a good letter can make a difference. I found the "power impact technique" to make perfect sense. Job hunting in today's market is all about selling yourself, and I think the suggestions in this book help do that. Those readers who were disappointed should remember that even if the "power impact technique" provides a formula approach, it is hard to deny that the sentences are attention getting....and getting someone to "take notice" and read further is the first step to the interview.
HR manager says excellent resource; buy & use!.......2004-05-14
I am an HR Manager and I can highly recommend this book as the authority on cover letters. Not only do I recommend it to others, I just used it myself and dramatically improved my cover letters. The new boss who hired me stated he thought my cover letter was excellent and my resume really got his attention. I used both Ryan's books " Winning Cover Letters, and her other book "Winning Resumes". I give them my highest endorsement.
this book helped me get the job!.......2004-02-09
I hate writing cover letters but the author outlined a formula that was easy to follow. After not getting any results I used this book to create my winning cover letter (and I used her Winning Resume book too), and I got an interview for a great mid-level manager postion. I landed the job and they commented on how impressed they had been by my letter & resume. This author is a pro -- buy this book if you want real guidnace in landing a new or better job. If I can learn to write an effective cover letter, anyone can.
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201 Winning Cover Letters for $100,000+ Jobs: Cover Letters That Can Change Your Life!
Wendy S. Enelow , and
Wendy S. Enclow
Manufacturer: Impact Pubns
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Book Description
Discover what's so special about job search letters written by individuals earning high-end salaries.
Customer Reviews:
How to make money without presenting anything original.......2002-08-31
this book is not worth it. Have more fun by posting your own blind ad for the same price and see much more creativity. Bottom line it stinks!
Good book.......2000-04-12
Many good cover letter samples and ideas. It is not easy to find a book as helpful as this one. I passed it on to friends and relatives.
Book Description
Destined to become the bible for managers who want to make sure their resumes and cover letters open the maximum number of doors while helping them maximize in the salary negotiation process. From office manager to CEO, managers trying to relocate to or from these and other industries and fields will find helpful examples: Banking, Agriculture, School Systems, Human Resources, Restaurants, Manufacturing, Hospitality Industry, Automotive, Retail, Telecommunications, Police Force, Dentistry, Social Work, Academic Affairs, Non-Profit Organizations, Childcare, Sales, Sports, Municipalities, Rest Homes, Medicine and Healthcare, Business Operations, Landscaping, Customer Service, MIS, Quality Control, Teaching, the Arts, and More! This book is part of the Anne McKinney Career Series by PREP Publishing.
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Sure-Hire Resumes: Model Resumes, Before-And After Makeovers, Winning Cover Letters, Guide to Software
Robbie Miller Kaplan
Manufacturer: Amacom Books
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Book Description
Most job seekers underestimate the importance of letters when looking for a job. This book shows to write effective letters that observe proper rules and etiquette and use persuasive language.
Product Description
After graduating from the University of Washington, Caleb Powell found teaching English a good way to travel and not have to pay. The World is a Class is the guidebook he and many other fledgling teachers wish they'd had as they set out on their adventures.
Customer Reviews:
An outstanding primer on Where, Who, Why, Where and How.......2005-01-09
I took a TESL (teaching English as a second language) position in Bogota, Columbia and learned much of what is in this book the hard way. If you are new to TESL then by all means read this book!
Caleb Powell has covered most all of the needed information to help you move forward to new worlds. He covers topics from "Why Teach Overseas" ("I saw islands and temples, climbed mountains, ate raw fish and beetle larvae and took a vacation in Taiwan."), to contract negotiations (an especially helpful section in this book).
Helpful are the short quips from other teachers around the world who have learned the various life lessons and the ins and outs of TESL.What is missing is an important appendix section that covers `web' resources. Only `Dave's ESL Café' is noted in the book. Strongly Recommended.
Worth the money.......2004-08-19
I came to Japan this month and bought this book, and it turns out it has helped save me some headaches, specifically, my apartment was poorly furnished, and far from my school. If not for the book I might have accepted 'what you see is what you get' and said nothing. Instead, I told my employer I was not happy, and ended up getting the apartment furnished to my liking and better hours to facilitate my commute time. Complaining immediately seemed to make a difference. I don't know what the previous review was upset about, there is a difference between wanting to make a buck and wanting to avoid being exploited. Maybe the reviewer would have been happy as a Red Guard in China, there anyone who 'made a buck' was punished. THe only problem with the book is it could be longer, but has enough valuable information that it's money well spent.
Don't waste your money ..........2004-08-17
The only thing I got out of this book (and I work with people who want to teach/work overseas) was that the author wanted to make a buck. If I could, I would have given it no stars. Don't waste your time or your money.
Good stuff, read it before you sign on the dotted line.......2003-08-16
A friend showed me this book AFTER I had already done a tour as a teacher in Korea. I wish I had read it before I went. Powell gives a lot of practical information on the process of getting a job without getting scammed but the parts I enjoyed most were the stories he told about the people and situations he has experienced. He has taught in several countries and some of the cultural comparisons are downright profound. I came back to the states after a tour but reading this book makes me wish I had made a career of it.
This book would make a perfect college graduation present- give it to that young man or woman who you fear is about to do something really boring with their life- it may plant a seed in their head and give them a lot of memories
A must read for travelling English teachers.......2003-08-04
I should have read this book BEFORE teaching English in Taiwan. This is the best guidebook about teaching English in a foreign country. I am from South Africa and I did a lot of research before coming to Taiwan. I have travelled before, but I didn't know anything about teaching, working hours, contracts, recruitors, etc. If I had read this book beforehand, I would have been better prepared for my teaching experience in Taiwan. (Believe me, I've learned the hard (and expensive) way!) Everyone interested in teaching English in a foreign country MUST read this book. This will save you a lot of trouble and money!
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