Image Control: The Key To Higher Salary Offers

Teaches You How To Analyze and Control the Image You Present in Your Resume in Order To Land More Interviews and Higher Salary Offers

Controlling Your Image Step-by-Step -- Using The Power of Advertising Secrets in Resume Writing -- From 0% to 100% Response Rate -- Advertising Secrets - Who Is Your Audience and What Do They Want To Hear? -- Analysis and Graph of Two Resumes -- Using Graphing To Control Your Image -- The Art and Science of Skill Headings and Job Titles -- Choosing A Skill-Based or Chronological Resume -- When Is A Chronological Resume Better? -- 3 Steps To Selecting the Best Resume Format For You -- Worksheets To Analyze The Image Created By Your Skill Headings or Job Titles -- Tips for Strengthening Weak Job Titles -- Checklist To Select A Skill-Based or Chronological Resume

Improve Your Self-Confidence and Expand Your Comfort Zone

Emphasizes The Importance of Identifying and Marketing Your Top Skills -- Expanding Your Comfort Zone So That You Are Comfortable With A New Image

Encourages You Not To Let Self-Doubt Weaken The Image You Present In Your Resume

Self-Doubt Can Result in Weak Resumes -- Negative Situations Can Damage Your Self-Image -- Accurately Describing The Work You Do -- Many Job Titles Have Little Meaning -- Weak Titles Control Salary Levels -- Employers Are More Interested in Skills Than Job Titles -- Your Comfort Zone -- Are You Being Truthful? -- Self-Doubt Affects How We Describe Ourselves -- How Fran's Comfort Zone Weakened Her Image -- Did You Really Do It? -- Self-Image and Resume Development -- What Shape Is Your Self-Image In? -- How Does Your Self-Image Affect Your Goals? -- When Your Self-Image Doesn't Match Your Goals -- Do You Set Goals? Your Feelings -- You Must Be Comfortable With Your Goals -- Changing Jobs Can Be Frustrating -- Your Self-Image Affects Your Career Growth -- Your Beliefs Determine Your Self-Image -- Even Successful People Have Self-Image Problems -- How Negative Self-Talk Affects Us -- We Process Up To 60,000 Thoughts A Day

Resumes Really ARE That Important

Resumes Lay the Foundation For A Strong Interview - Not Taking The Time To Create A Great Resume Results in Lower Salary Offers and Loss of Self-Confidence

The Best Preparation for an Interview -- It Takes Time To Create A Great Resume -- Resumes Represent How We Market Ourselves During Interviews -- A Strong Resume Sets Your Image Before Interviews -- Who Gets Hired? -- People Put Little Effort into Creating Their Resumes -- Identifying Skills Increases Confidence -- Employers Look For Growth and Promotion Potential -- Always Lower The Employer's Risk in Hiring You -- Your Resume is a Powerful Career Tool

6 Steps To Create A Powerful Resume

Examples and Worksheets Guide You Through Each Step of Creating a Powerful Resume That Blows Away Your Competition!

6 Easy Steps to Create A Skill-Based Resume -- 2 Sets of Before and After Resumes Illustrate When To Use Chronological and Skill-Based Resumes -- Worksheets for Each of the 6 Steps Guide You In Completing Objective Statements, Selecting Powerful Skill Headings or Replacing/Strengthening Weak Job Titles, Writing Powerful Resume Content, Describing Education and Listing Employment History to Maximize Resume Success

Skill Lists and Sample Sentences To Create A Proven Resume

Over 2,000 Skills, Skill Headings and Sample Sentences Are Provided On Easy To Check-Off Worksheets for the Following Industries and Positions:

Accounting -- Assembly -- Automotive-- Bookkeeping -- Cashiering -- Computer Programs / Equipment -- Computer System Administration -- Construction -- Consultants -- Copywriting -- Customer Service -- Drafting -- Driving -- Education --Engineering -- Executive Secretary -- Facilities Management -- General Labor -- General Office -- Healthcare -- Human Resources Management -- Human Services -- Industrial Maintenance -- Inside Sales -- Janitorial -- Machine Shop -- Management -- Mechanic -- Office Management -- Outside Sales -- Production -- Reception -- Recruitment -- Reporter -- Restaurant - Food Service -- Retail Sales -- Self-Employed Shipping -- Social Services -- Supervision -- Teaching -- Technical Support -- Training -- Transferable Skills -- Warehouse -- Writer

12 Questions To Expand and Control Your Image

Questions and Examples Guide You In Writing Powerful Resume Content That Has Been Proven To Generate More Interviews and Higher Salary Offers

Short Examples are Provided For:

Accounting Assistant -- Administrative / Executive Support -- A/R and A/P Management -- Assembler -- Assistant Manager -- Auto Mechanic -- Branch Manager -- Clinic Manager -- Computer System Implementation -- Computerized Office Applications -- Cook -- Corporate Training -- Crew Management -- Customer Service / Regional Support -- Data Entry Clerk -- Departmental Coordination -- Departmental Management -- District Forms Design -- Dock Operations -- Drafter -- Driver -- Dry Cleaner Manager -- Editor -- Floor Supervisor -- Gas Station Attendant -- Horse Trainer -- K9 to K12 English and Grammar Instructor -- Law Library Manager -- Mail Specialist -- Nurse -- Operations Design -- Operations Management -- Outside Sales Representative -- Production Set-Up and Control -- Program Manager -- Project Manager -- National Program Manager -- Receptionist -- Retail Sales Clerk -- Road Crew Lead -- Secretary -- Supervisor -- Teacher -- Technical Support -- Territory Key Account Management -- Vendor Account Processing -- Vice President of Operations --Warehouse Worker -- Word Processor

Creating Powerful Resume Design and Content

Reinforces The Importance of Design That Grabs The Employer's Attention In That First, Critical 5-Second Glance

Directing and Controlling The Reader's Eye Path -- Design Can Maximize or De-Emphasize -- Resume Example That Illustrates Design Elements That Direct and Control The Eye Path -- Skill Headings, Job Titles and Resume Design -- Resumes Using Two Main Skill Headings -- Success Story and Resume - From $18 per Hour to $24 per Hour -- Your Image Affects Your Entire Job Search -- How Many Skill Headings or Job Titles Should You Use? -- Don't Go Overboard on Design -- Success Story and Resume - 100% Response Rate -- Controlling Employer Assumptions -- Words That Weaken Your Image -- Make Your Resume Memorable -- Quantifying -- Examples of How To Improve Resume Statements -- Prioritize and Use Umbrella Statements -- Have Your Resume Wordprocessed -- Use Narrow Margins to Save Space -- Typestyles and Type Size -- Use Design Elements To Direct and Control the Eye Path -- Use Bulleted Statements Instead of Block Paragraphs -- Quality Printing and Paper -- Executive Resumes -- Include All Contact Information -- List of 500 Action Verbs Categorized by Skill Areas

What You Should and Shouldn't Tell Employers

Includes Objective Statements That Landed a $42,000 Salary Increase and a $400 a Month Salary Increase

Covers Nuts and Bolts Questions About Each Section of A Resume - How To Write Objective Statements - Deal With Erratic Work History -- Gaps in Employment - Describe Education - Personal Information

Should You Use an Objective Statement? -- If You Don't Include An Objective Statement -- If You Know The Position You Want To Apply For -- Drawbacks To Stating A Specific Objective -- Several Positions Using The Same Skills -- Avoid General Statements -- Don't Describe What You Want -- Powerful Objective Statements -- Objective Statement Worksheets -- One Page Versus Two Page Resumes -- How Far To Go Back In Your Work History -- When and How To Use Dates -- Gaps in Employment -- Streamline Several Positions With One Employer -- If You've Worked for Temporary Agencies -- How To Describe Volunteer Experience -- Where To Place and Describe Education -- Special Areas of Study -- College With A Degree -- College Without A Degree -- If You Attended Several Colleges -- Describing College Coursework, Projects and Internships -- Describing Hands-On Experience -- Describing Short-Term Projects -- When To Include Your GPA -- Corporate Training -- Leave Off Addresses of Employment -- Personal Information -- Salary History -- Reason For Leaving Employment -- Maintaining Your Confidentiality -- Professional Memberships -- If You Have Relocated -- Military Employment -- Associations and Religious Affiliations -- Personal and Professional References -- Reference Sheet Example