MODERNIZE YOUR RESUME shows you how to craft a winning resume to meet the complexities of today's employment market. The 3rd edition includes new resume samples along with companion LinkedIn profiles and writing guidelines, special chapters for challenging circumstances (career change, consulting/freelance, military transition, return to work), and updated e-resume recommendations. In this book, you'll learn to: Write tight, lean, clean, laser-focused CONTENT. Integrate KEYWORDS that are vital to being found online. Choose a resume FORMAT that prominently displays the most important information to support your current career objectives. Create a distinctive DESIGN to make your resume stand out. The 100+ resume samples demonstrate these strategies in action for real-life job seekers who've excelled in their search campaigns. Clear guidelines and easy-to-follow examples give you practical know-how for building your own powerful resume that will serve all of your job search needs.

Product Description This book covers everything you need to know and do to win the job you desire at your highest salary potential. It is packed with strategic methods and resources to market yourself, conduct your job search, network, prepare for and ace your interviews, and negotiate your salary. All of the writing and research is done for you! About the Author Evelyn U. Salvador, NCRW, JCTC is a Certified Resume Writer and Career Coach, Personal Branding pioneer, and creator of award-winning resume products that have helped revolutionize the resume writing industry. A visionary thought leader and often quoted authority. Evelyn fosters a comprehensive, innovative approach to meeting the career development needs of 21st-century jobseekers. She has put her resume-writing verbiage and methods into each of the tools this book contains to help you position yourself in the top percentage of candidates in your industry.

Product Description Personal Branding Pioneer, Evelyn Salvador, takes you through the 5 critical elements of successful branding and secret visual tactics not seen anywhere else to position jobseekers above other candidates.This book includes customizable paragraphs for your Branded Bio, LinkedIn Profile, and Professional Summary-even your Elevator Pitch and Tagline-and much more! About the Author Evelyn U. Salvador is a Personal Branding pioneer and strategist, Certified Resume Writer and Career Coach, and creator of multiaward-winning resume products that have helped revolutionize the resume-writing industry. A visionary thought leader and often quoted authority, Evelyn fosters a comprehensive approach to meeting the career development needs of jobseekers. She has put her innovative methods into the career tools she creates to help position jobseekers in the top percentage in their industry. Her tools and resources are used worldwide by professional resume writers, the military, Departments of Labor, colleges and universities, libraries, and jobseekers.

Brand yourself like a pro on LinkedInLinkedIn multiplies what you know by the power of who you know to deliver the number one social platform for business professionals and new job seekers. LinkedIn For Dummies shows LinkedIn newcomers the best ways to discover new opportunities, enhance their personal brand, network with other professionals, and give an exponential boost to their career. Consider this book a passport to help you connect more successfully with many of LinkedIn’s 660+ million members in over 200 countries, as well as an expert guide to the platform’s tools and features and the proven tactics that get you noticed.In this friendly, all-access introduction to the LinkedIn scene, entrepreneurship guru Joel Elad clues you in on the essentials. Get the latest insight on how to create an attractive profile that will make employers give you a second glance as well as techniques for making useful connections across the globe. In no time at all you’ll also be right at home with the profile user interface and getting busy with adding content, searching for career opportunities, and, if you’re looking to hire for your company, recruiting top candidates. Build your personal brand and market it Sell yourself by highlighting skills, awards, and endorsements Get connected with LinkedIn groups Manage and make introductions via InMailRelationships matter: LinkedIn For Dummies gives you the online social skills to turn six degrees of separation into the colleagues, mentors, and friends who will transform your career―and your life.

Finally, a companion to the groundbreaking Step-by-Step Resumes workbook! Step-by-Step Cover Letters uses a foolproof system of paragraph starters and an overall framework to help readers easily build outstanding cover letters that will get interviews and job offers. Professional resume writer and personal branding strategist Evelyn Salvador leads you through the steps of writing a compelling first paragraph, showing the value you bring, developing and communicating your brand in your letter, summarizing your key accomplishments, editing your letter, and compelling the employer to pick up the phone and call you for an interview. The included CD-ROM is chock-full of cover letter samples and templates, as well as letter-building worksheets and other tools.

A guide to easily building a resume includes a collection of thousands of powerful resume keywords to make one's resume stand out in electronic databases, a section on integrating a resume into one's social-networking strategy, tips on e-mailing resumes and a CD with templates and worksheets. Original.

Create Your Interview-Generating Resume in 6 Easy How-to-StepsStep-by-step Resumes takes you from defining and leveraging your unique personal brand to creating your exemplary resume with all of your resume bullets completed for you!STEP 1: Start Your Resume Complete the Resume WorksheetSTEP 2: Check Off Your Resume Keywords (Core Competencies)STEP 3: Check Off Your Personal Attributes and CapabilitiesSTEP 4: Develop your Personal Brand and Professional SummarySTEP 5: Select Your Resume ClipBulletsTMSTEP 6: Pull Your Resume Together

Create Your Interview-Generating Resume in 6 Easy How-to StepsStep-by-Step Resumes takes you from defining and leveraging your unique personal brand to creating your exemplary resume with all your resume bullets completed for you!STEP 1: Start Your Resume Complete the Resume WorksheetSTEP 2: Check Off Your Resume Keywords (Core Competencies)STEP 3: Check Off Your Personal Attributes and CapabilitiesSTEP 4; Develop Your Personal Brand and Professional SummarySTEP 5: Select Your Resume ClipBulletsTMSTEP 6: Pull Your Resume Together

Create Your Interview-Generating Resume in 6 Easy How-to StepsStep-by-Step Resumes takes you from defining and leveraging your unique personal brand to creating your exemplary resume with all your resume bullets completed for you!STEP 1: Start Your Resume Complete the Resume WorksheetSTEP 2: Check Off Your Resume Keywords (Core Competencies)STEP 3: Check Off Your Personal Attributes and CapabilitiesSTEP 4; Develop Your Personal Brand and Professional SummarySTEP 5: Select Your Resume ClipBulletsTMSTEP 6: Pull Your Resume Together