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Crafting Your Successful Résumé: From Planning to Securing Employment

Discover key steps to navigate today's job market, plan, write, and format a winning résumé, and learn common résumé formats. Ensure the accuracy, honesty, and appeal of your résumé through effective writing strategies.

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Crafting Your Successful Résumé: From Planning to Securing Employment

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  1. Chapter 15 Building Careers and Writing Résumés

  2. Learning Objectives • List eight key steps to finding the ideal opportunity in today’s job market • Explain the process of planning your résumé, including how to choose the best résumé organization • Describe the tasks involved in writing your résumé and list the major sections of a traditional résumé

  3. Learning Objectives • Characterize the completing step for résumés, including the six most common formats in which you can produce a résumé

  4. Securing Employment in Today’s Job Market

  5. Finding Your Ideal Opportunity

  6. Writing the Story of You • Where I Have Been • Have worked several part-time jobs; only thing that really appealed to me in any of them was making improvements, making things work better • Where I Am Now • Junior; on track to graduate in 2014 • Where I Want to Be • Get an advanced degree; not sure what subject area yet, though

  7. Job-Search Websites • Riley Guide - www.rileyguide.com • Vast collection of links to both general and specialized job sites for every career imaginable • TweetMyJobs.com - http://tweetmyjobs.com • The largest Twitter job board, with thousands of channels segmented by geography • Internship Programs.com – http:/internshipprograms.com • Posts listings from companies looking for interns in a wide variety of professions

  8. Applying the Three-Step Résumé Process

  9. Analyze Your Purpose and Audience

  10. Gathering Pertinent Information

  11. Organizing Your Résumé Around Strengths

  12. Work History Educational Level Skills and Accomplishments Chronological Combination Functional Personal Background Personal Objectives Typical Résumé Formats

  13. Writing Your Résumé

  14. Keeping Your Résumé Honest

  15. Adapting Your Résumé to Your Audience

  16. Composing Your Résumé

  17. Compose Your Resume Around Strong Verbs and Nouns

  18. Completing Your Résumé

  19. Revising Your Résumé

  20. Keep It Simple Design Elements Avoid Excess Printed Traditional Scannable Résumé Plain-Text File MS Word File Online Résumé PDF File Producing Your Résumé

  21. Producing Your Résumé

  22. Infographic Résumé

  23. Social Media Résumé

  24. Headings and Lists Grammar and Punctuation Strive for Perfection Attend to the Details Spelling and Word Choice Review Personal Data Proofreading Your Résumé

  25. Distributing Your Résumé

  26. Summary of Objectives

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