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Job-Seeker Resume Tutorial:
How to Develop and Polish Your Job-Search Resume

 

If I've Never Done a Resume Before, How do I get Started?

 

Consider these resources to help you get started on your resume:

• 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.
• Smart Career Moves -- Resume Generator.
• Use our Quintessential Careers Resume Worksheets, especially our Resume Components Worksheet.
• Try the Inexpensive Resume Workbooks from the late Yana Parker.
• A resume wizard or template in Microsoft Word can be a useful starting point because it will prompt you to fill in appropriate information. Once you've used a Word template to start your resume, it's best to customize the layout and design. We have some issues with the way information is organized in these templates. Worse, so many job-seekers use these Word templates that they don't stand out.
• Use our Fundamentals of a Good Chronological Resume as a basic template.
• Get inspiration from our collection of more than 100 Free Sample Professional Resumes.
• If you're really stuck, consider hiring a professional resume writer.

 

 

 

Lost? Go to the Map of the Job-Seeker Resume Tutorial.

 

 

Have you checked out the rest of the great free career and job-related tutorials offered on Quintessential Careers?

 

Maximize your career and job-search knowledge and skills! Take advantage of The Quintessential Careers Content Index, which enables site visitors to locate articles, tutorials, quizzes, and worksheets in 35 career, college, job-search topic areas.

 

 

 

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