What follows is a collection of the best resume writing, editing, and strategy resources on the Web -- for all
types of job-seekers in all job-search situtations. If you need help writing and editing your resume or
curriculum vitae (CV), take advantage of all the professional resume-writing resouces, tools, and
samples we offer on this site.
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Avoid These 10 Resume Mistakes -- a
professional resume writer shows you how to avoid/fix the 10 most common resume mistakes that
can hurt your job-search job success.
FAKTSA: An Easy Acronym for
Remembering Key Resume Enhancers -- learn about Focus, Appearance, Keywords,
Transferrable Skills, Accomplishments in improving your resume.
Five Top Trends for Executive Resumes --
developing an interview-generating executive resume is about differentiating yourself from
others competing for same jobs. Here are 5 trends to use to stand out.
Frequently Asked Questions About Resumes:
The Complete Resume FAQ -- a complete compendium on all things resumes, including answers to 55
of the most frequently job-seeker asked questions about resumes.
Fundamentals of a Good Resume Page -- a quick and
easy-to-follow template for writing a chronlogical resume, with links to other types of resumes and other key
resume-writing resources.
How to Get Started on Your Resume: A Five-Step
Primer for College Students and Recent College Grads. Perfect how-to solution for college students and
recent grads struggling to develop a resume.
How to Get Started on Your Resume:
A Five-Step Primer for Established Job-seekers and Career-Changers. A how-to article for job-seekers,
career-changers who need to create, revamp resume and don't know how to start.
How to Handle a Gap in Your Job History --
don't let an employment gap hurt your career job-search. Learn how to handle a gap.
New
Grads Must Dig Deeper to Beef Up Skimpy Resumes -- college students and new grads can learn how to
add depth to your resumes by examining all your relevants experiences.
Polish Your Resume Like a Pro: Tips Any Job-Seeker Can Use --
take steps to improve your resume with tips professional resume writers use to polish resumes of clients.
Preparing a Curriculum Vitae (CV) --
the resume for scientists and academics; includes tips, resources, books, and samples.
Resume Critique Worksheet --
before you apply for that next job, take the time to critique your resume on these critical criteria.
Resumes Do's and Don'ts -- a key
collection of critical rules dealing with resume preparation and writing.
The Scoop on Resume Length:
How Many Pages Should Your Resume Be? -- deals with the one question all job-seekers face...
how many pages are acceptable for your resume. The answer may surprise you.
Should You Consider a
Functional Format for Your Resume? -- for many job-seekers, a resume organized around skills
clusters is a better option than a standard chronological resume.
Should You Use a Career Objective on Your Resume? --
the pros and cons that can help you decide whether or not to use a career objective on your resume.
Tapping the Power of
Keywords to Enhance Your Resume's Effectiveness -- this article,
a preview of a chapter from the book,
Words to Get Hired By:
The Jobseeker's Quintessential Lexicon of Powerful Words and Phrases for Resumes and Cover Letters,
the first e-book published by
Quintessential Careers Press, is
all about the potential benefit to job-seekers who use the "correct" keywords in your resume and cover letter.
Ten Easy Ways to Improve Your Resume -- ten
tips to help you tweak your resume into a nicer, cleaner, more readable resume, thus clearing the path to
more potential job interviews.
A Web-Ready Resume Can Be a Major
Advantage in Your Job Search -- learn about the advantages of creating a Web-ready resume to
enhance your job-search -- and then how to create and publish your resume on the Web.
What Resume Format is Best for You? --
discusses various resume formats and provides tips on which format is best for job-seekers.
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Quintessential Careers: Job
Search Correspondence (Resumes and Cover Letters) Articles.
QUINTESSENTIAL CAREERS RESUME TUTORIALS
Resume Tutorial -- actually tutorials. This site offers a detailed resume
tutorial for beginners as well as a "lite" version for job-seekers who just need to do some
fine-tuning on your resumes.
QUINTESSENTIAL CAREERS RESUME QUIZZES
Resume Quizzes for Job-Seekers -- four great tools.
How strong is your resume? Put it to the test! And while you're at it, test your resume strategy skills as well!
Resume-writing quizzes are available for entry-level/new grad
job-seekers, career-changers, and experienced job-seekers.
QUINTESSENTIAL CAREERS FREE RESUME/CV TOOLS & RESOURCES
Could You Benefit from
a Professional Resume Writer? An Assessment for Job-seekers -- a great tool to
help you judge whether you need the services of a professional resume writer.
Job-Seeker Career and Job-Search Worksheets --
worksheets to develop and streghten your cover letters and resumes.
Real New College Grad Resume
and Cover Letter Samples -- A large collection of real, high-quality new college grad resume
and cover letter samples for helping colelge students and new grads improve your job, internship, grad-school search.
Sample Curriculum Vitas --
where you'll find a growing selection of sample Web-based vitas (CVs) as well as some
international CVs in pdf.
Sample Professionally Developed Resumes for Job-Seekers --
check out these free professionally produced sample resumes if you're
interested in getting some ideas and guidelines for your own resume. In pdf format.
Sample Web Resumes for Job-Seekers -- where you'll find a
large selection of free sample Web-based resumes.
QUINTESSENTIAL CAREERS PRESS RESUME E-BOOK
The
Quintessential Guide to Surefire Resumes for New Graduates and Other Entry-Level Candidates.
This free Quintessential Careers Press e-book provides seven chapters that will help you pack punch into
your resume and cover letter and then gives you two chapters of tools -- worksheets and samples to guide
you to applying what you've learned from the book to creating surefire career-marketing documents.
QUINTESSENTIAL CAREERS RESUME WRITING TIPS
Critical Resume Tips:
Key Resume Writing Advice -- a no-cost collection of resume writing related tips and strategies designed to help all
job-seekers -- from entry-level to career-changers to executives -- find jobs.
WEB RESUME RESOURCES
Emurse.com --
where job-seekers can create and maintain a professional resume and profile that is hosted online,
available for download in any needed format. Also includes networking, job-matching, and
job-search (using Indeed.com). Emurse, an anagram for Resume. Several options for job-seekers,
from no cost account to premium services.
GotResumeBuilder.com --
a Web-based resume-building service that helps job-seekers upload the information
needed to create a resume. Includes resume-writing tips and sample resumes. No
cost to users.
THE OTHER RESUME SITES
"How To
Write a Masterpiece of a Resume," from Rockport Institute
Career Pathfinders. Includes some great tips and information all about resumes.
JobStar --
Resume Index -- Some great information about resumes,
with resume tips from Yana Parker, author of the best-selling,
Damn Good Resumes.
ResumeTutor --
An online resume writing workbook from the Employee
Career Enrichment Center at the University of Minnesota.
Ten Minute Resume:
Resume Preparation Service -- offers free access
to intelligent expert-software that helps resume writers frame their qualifications in the best
possible way. It walks you through a series of
steps and guides you with tips and phrases to make the most of your
credentials. An excellent resource.
WinWay Corporation -- site of WinWay Resume 4.0 software,
as well as other career and job-hunting resources.
Recruiters' Top 10 Resume
Pet Peeves -- some great advice on fixing common resumes errors identified by corproate recruiters,
from the Mount Holyoke College Career Development Center.
