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How Fran Elevated Her Image and Salary Level by $9,000!

... whether you're in the $20,000 salary range or the $100,000+ salary range -- learning how to control your image is critical to resume success!

P.S. these are the same strategies that have resulted in the 30+ testimonials some listed below and in the testimonials page.

What's Wrong With Fran's Before Resume?
I met Fran while teaching a Workforce Training class at a One-Stop Employment Security workshop. She was upset because she had applied for over 20 customer service positions but hadn't landed even one interview. I could see that she was worried her entire job search was going to be like this. Fran rewrote her resume and about a week later she ran into me and shared her new success with me. She had faxed two resumes on a Friday and on Monday had already gotten calls for interviews on both resumes. Within a week she had taken her response rate from 0% to 100%.

Fran has extensive customer service experience as a directory operator and business owner. Before creating her new resume, Fran had applied for a Customer Service Representative position and had all the skills listed in a 2-page job description for the position. Yet, she hadn't landed an interview for that job either.

After reading the rest of this paragraph scroll down to Fran's before resume. When you glance at this resume where does your eye go first, second, then third? What headings and job titles grab your attention? How well does this information match your image of a corporate Customer Service Representative?

Once you've read Fran's before resume scroll down and take a look at Fran's after resume. Glancing at it, where does your eye go first, second, then third? Does the before or after resume do a better job of selling Fran's top skills at a glance?

Of these two resumes, who would you select to interview for the Customer Service Representative position? Which resume would motivate you to pay Fran a higher salary?

Like Fran, many job seekers have past job titles that do not match the types of jobs they want and they must create resumes that sell skills that do match the jobs they want. Some job seekers need to create what I call skill based resumes; resumes that market specific skills with a de-emphasized work history at the bottom of the resume. Others, are good candidates for chronological resumes but in some instances they may need to modify or strengthen their job titles.

For instance, Tom's chronological resume lists his titles of Outside Sales Representative and System Engineer. He now wants a Contract Administration position. An employer glancing at his resume wouldn't know that he's gained extensive Contract Administration experience in both jobs. He's better off modifying his first title to read: Contract Administration / Outside Sales Representative.

Before Resume

Is Fran's After Resume Better?
Now glance at Fran's after resume below. Where does your eye go first, second, then third? Which resume sells Fran's top skills at a glance? Of these two resumes who would you select to interview for the Customer Service Representative position?

After Resume

As Fran's and Tom's examples illustrate, most employers don't have the ability or time to look at unrelated job titles and try to assess if you have the skills they need -- you must do that for them.

My latest book, Proven Resumes: Strategies That Have Increased Salaries and Changed Lives! (now in Word format with total download of about 5 minutes broken into 7 booklets or as the complete series as a great savings!) provides extensive examples and worksheets to help you determine whether you should use a skill based resume or a chronological resume; and how to truthfully strengthen, modify or replace weak and unrelated titles.

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Thousand Dollar Resume Mistakes:
The Financial and
Emotional Cost of Ineffective Resumes
Most job seekers don't understand the negative financial impact an ineffective resume can have on their job search - until it's too late and they've already been affected financially. Resumes that don't work result in prolonged job searches and, very often, lower salary offers.

A person in the $60,000 range who is unemployed for 4 months can easily lose over $20,000. A person in the $24,000 range can lose over $8,000 dollars.   Most of us never stop to think what the monetary value of our resume is until we're faced with having to pay mortgage payments and maintain our family's budget when we become unemployed. Even with unemployment many of the job seekers I've worked with still have to dip into their savings.

This makes it important that job seekers see the monetary value and importance of their resumes along with implementing a well-rounded job search campaign. When you grow tired of tweaking your resume think of what an ineffective resume can cost you. I find that these monetary figures motivate almost everyone to keep improving their resumes. Ineffective resumes can also negatively impact your self-confidence. When you send out dozens or hundreds of resumes and get a poor response how will you feel?

When people get a poor response to their resumes, they don't stop to think their resume is the problem--they think they are the problem. So, take to heart the examples in this website, and in my book or booklets, then tweak your resume whenever it will help you look more qualified.

Magical Transformations:
Stress and Anxiety Evaporate
Each time I give a presentation using the concepts in this and the next two workshops, I see stress, worry and anxiety leave the audience because they have begun to understand why and how resumes really work. Arms that were folded are moved to an open position. Shoulders that were tense become relaxed. People begin to smile. And, I see even more physical and mental changes occur once people finish their resumes and begin landing more interviews and higher salary offers.

Over the last three years I have had over 12,000 client visits. I provide placement service and help the customers write resumes. I have many resume books in my office but use yours exclusively. Many of my clients from out of state were having trouble getting job interviews. I rewrote their resumes leaving out the state where
they worked like the back page of your book and guess what, they started to get interviews. Also, the Kitsap County employers like the bullet statements.
Keep up the good work!

Bob Middlebrook
Executive Director
Sound Works Job Center

One of my favorite memories is of Tom, a truck driver, who practically heckled me during one of my presentations. He felt this stuff was too fancy, schmancy - that he was just a truck driver and that's all employers wanted to know about him. However, losing his teamster position at $18 an hour he needed a strong resume to land a comparable salary in a non-union position. Surprisingly, he took to heart the concepts in my book and created a resume that landed him a job starting at $24 an hour. That was wonderful but what really made me feel good was to see how differently he felt about himself. Before, he had been anxious, his shoulders were hunched, he avoided eye contact and he was a little angry at the world.

A week after class, I ran into him and he was smiling--his shoulders were back and he looked at me confidently--while telling me about his new job. What a difference! Like Fran and Tom, the rewards of an effective resume are better salaries and more interviews--but more importantly--are the changes in how people feel about themselves when they generate a great response to their resumes.

Thoughts From Someone Who Has Already Been Through My Top 12 Workshops
Recently, Andrea Defort wrote and told me she had purchased the Increase Salaries booklet to write her husband's resume ...it landed him 26 job offers over the internet (which even I find very hard to believe). So, I asked her what she would say to readers who are visiting these workshops for the first time and how valuable she feels these materials are. Here's her letter:

As Andrea points out, almost all of us have some self-doubt when writing our resumes and this leads us to create weak resumes. This problem is then compounded by the fact that so much resume advice is outdated or not based on controlling and directing the eye path nor on selling top skills in seconds. I take my role as a resume writer very seriously. I know that I am impacting people's lives--therefore I have spent thousands of hours perfecting the techniques in my Increase Salaries booklets to make sure that they are extremely effective--as proven by the testimonials throughout this site.

A resume is much more than just a resume! In the end it affects how we feel about ourselves (not too great if we don't generate interviews). If written well it markets our top skills and increases our confidence. It impresses employers which also makes us feel good about ourselves. And, powerful resumes help us generate job offers at higher salary levels. In turn, higher salaries increase our standard of living and help us take better care of our families...or buy a car...or make a mortgage payment. For these reasons, resumes really are much more than just resumes! Beyond teaching you how to write a good resume is my goal of helping you achieve all of these things -- which are much more meaningful! Good luck - I do hope you write a resume that increases your confidence and not only helps you feel great about yourself but also lands the interviews and salary offers you want!

With 2 million visitors coming to our site each year, we receive many e-mails asking which of my materials will best suit their needs.  Below, I've provided a detailed explanation of which products I recommend for different needs (so if you're interested you might print this page, bookmark it, or write down the url of this page). Shorter explanations are included in the rest of the workshops.

Now let's continue analyzing Fran's before and after resumes to determine how her first resume damaged her image and how we corrected it. Learn more tips to improve yours!

MY TOP RECOMMENDATION if you are in the $20,000 to $100,000+ salary range is that you purchase all 7 booklets that make up the Increase Salaries series which total over 300 pages. This series will teach you all of the top strategies and secrets I apply when writing resumes and cover letters to ensure that your resume consistently generates more interviews and higher salary offers...you'll not only learn how to control and elevate your image and write a powerful resume but also learn how to carry this powerful understanding into the process of writing a cover letter that commands attention even when in a stack with hundreds of other letters ... then you'll learn how to continue to control your image, promote your top skills, ask intelligent questions that sell you throughout the interview process ... you'll also learn how to conduct a dynamic job search ... strategies that have been proven to cut job search time and that means $$ to you and a lot less stress when you no longer have to worry where your next pay check is coming from! Also, included are electronic resumes, online and offline job search strategies. This entire series will teach you everything you need to know to land a better job!!! How to increase your confidence. Eliminate job search anxiety. And feel motivated!!

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