At a loss for words?

Many job-seekers would like to write their own resumes and cover letters but have difficulty coming up with the right words with which to describe their skills and sell themselves.

Words to Get Hired By, the first e-book published by the trusted career experts at Quintessential Careers, provides thousands of powerful words and phrases that pack punch into your resume and cover letter. Words to Get Hired By gives you words and phrases for every part of your resume and cover letter and will ensure that you'll never again face writer's block as you compose your job-search correspondence.

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Contents:

Introduction: The Power of Words

Chapter 1: The Perfect Objective Statement for Your Resume
Sharpen your resume's focus with an objective statement that sets exactly the right tone.

Chapter 2: Tapping the Power of Keywords to Enhance Your Resume's Effectiveness
With 80 percent of resumes being placed into employer databases and searched for keywords, you can't afford not to know what keywords to use.

Chapter 3: Your Professional Profile: Bullet Points that Describe Your Strengths in a Nutshell
Know how to craft a resume section that has become increasingly indispensable.
--Thousands of sample bullet points arranged by skill
--Thousands of sample bullet points arranged by job type

Chapter 4: Identifying and Portraying Transferable and Applicable Skills
Learn how to describe your skills so they apply perfectly to the job you want. Especially important for career-changers!

Chapter 5: Powerful Verbs
Discover the verbs that bolster your image as a dynamic candidate for the job.

Chapter 6: Keeping it Parallel
Learn the grammatical tricks that keep the words flowing smoothly and improve your documents' readability.

Chapter 7: Leveraging Your Accomplishments
With today's employers insisting on accomplishments-driven resumes and cover letters, know how to make the most of your achievements.

Chapter 8: Words to Avoid
Find out how to steer clear of the words that won't sell you to employers.

Chapter 9: Proactive Language for Cover letters
Hit the right note of enthusiasm and authority in your cover letter so the employer can't resist interviewing you.

Words to Get Hired By is coming soon in e-book form from Quintessential Careers Press!

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About the author:
Katharine Hansen, principal resume and cover-letter writer for Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letters, is an author and instructor. Her books include Dynamic Cover Letters (more than 100,000 copies sold) and Write Your Way to a Higher GPA, written with Dr. Randall S. Hansen, as well as Dynamic Cover Letters for New Graduates (7,500+ copies sold) and most recently, A Foot in the Door: Networking Your Way into the Hidden Job Market, all published by Ten Speed Press. Lecturer in business communication for four years at Stetson University, DeLand, Florida, Katharine has taught the writing of resumes and cover letters and critiqued the job-search correspondence of countless college students. She also is editor of QuintZine, a free career and job-hunting newsletter filled with timely and topical tips for springboarding careers. Katharine was writer-editor at numerous newspapers, magazines and nonprofit organizations, and she served as speechwriter for the first woman elected to the Florida Cabinet. Katharine received her bachelor of arts degree in humanities from Stetson University. She is on the advisory board of the Certified Electronic Career Coach Program and is a member of Career Masters Institute.

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