Applying for federal employment is different than in private industry. This new guide shows you how to succeed by breaking the government's intricate process down into 10 simple steps. Both first-time applicants and those already within government will find something new here, as application processes change over time. Ten Steps is simply the most up-to-date book on federal employment available today!

Written for all job levels and categories, with salaries ranging to $140,000.

Ten Steps to a Federal Job is a "must have" for any job seeker looking for federal employment. Let Troutman's latest guidebook walk you through every step of the application process and into a rewarding job in federal service.

Includes a CD-ROM with samples and examples, and our Federal Resume and KSA Builders, normally sold for $35 each.
Price=$38.95
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In our current economic conditions, job hunters are struggling to attain the ‘perfect’ job. The Internet has made job hunting easier, but has made getting the job actually harder. It's so easy to apply for jobs today that employers are overwhelmed, often receiving thousands of applications per job opening. Somehow, you have to make sure your application rises to the top of this pile. How? Through your résumé - it’s the single most powerful marketing tool you have to showcase your skills and accomplishments. That's what this book is all about. It shows you how to create the best résumé for you and the job you are applying for. There are chapters on the different résumé formats and how to choose the appropriate one for your situation. There's a chapter showing you what belongs in each section of the resume and there's even a chapter on how to showcase your skills in the most powerful way. There is a section on mistakes to avoid and tips for dealing with any problematic areas. Underqualified? Overqualified? Each of these issues and many more are addressed in this book, as is a rarely discussed security issue from posting your resume all over the Internet. There is also a chapter on the power of words that will help you to maximize your writing to make your résumé the most powerful selling tool possible. Even better all this information is presented in a straightforward style that makes this book easy to read and the instructions even easier to follow. Isn't it time you seek out the next step in your life?
Price=$8.99
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Today’s economy is tighter and more complex than ever before. With no time or money for mistakes, companies need to find the ‘right’ person for every position quickly and efficiently. To have reached the interview stage is a feat in itself. Now it’s critical that you not only get through the interview but that you dominate the competition. If this is the job you want, there is no room for errors, not when there are hundreds of solid candidates lined up behind you. This book details the many different kinds and styles of interviews, in addition to the steps to take before, during and after the interview for maximum effectiveness. Tough questions will be asked in an interview. You need to answer them and ask a few hard questions of your own. The skills and techniques you will learn here will stay with you throughout your life to be utilized in multiple situations, helping you to enjoy a rewarding career. This is the 3rd book in the Career Essential series, and it covers all the ‘essential’ information you need to know about interviewing successfully and so much more. Like all the books in this series, the information presented here is concise and clearly laid out in an easily accessible style so it’s fast to read and easy to follow. Good luck!
Price=$8.99
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A comprehensive roadmap to finding, evaluating, qualifying for & achieving Mortuary career success, including theoretical & practical guidance from a range of expert sources, & strategic processes from an HR Manager's 'inside' perspective.
Price=$31.42
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Brilliant Cover Letters is the definitive book on cover letters, authored by James Innes, the Founder and Managing Director of The CV Centre the UK's leading CV consultancy responsible for writing many tens of thousands of cover letters annually. The advice given is tried, tested and proven on a daily basis within The CV Centre. Brilliant Cover Letter includes free bonuses such as cover letter templates available for download and immediate use and suitable for pretty much all purposes, from graduates to executives, and including templates for 'special cases', e.g. legal, medical, IT, teaching, etc. There's also a special offer for The CV Centre's services. A key feature of the book nothing quite like it exists in competing titles is a chapter covering the 15 most common cover letter mistakes and how to avoid them (based on extensive statistical analysis The CV Centre has undertaken of many thousands of cover letters). Only a tiny percentage of cover letters manage to avoid all these mistakes and most are victim to several. Avoiding these mistakes makes all the difference to whether your application ends up in the 'yes' pile or the 'no' pile also known as the bin!
Price=$19.98
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Offers advice on basic grammar, format, and punctuation, and provides 100 real cover letters in 65 job classifications which resulted in job interviews.
Price=$14.99
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For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Bookkeeping Accounting and Auditing Clerks job, or to apply for a better job.

What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much stronger document, be much better prepared and a step ahead for the next opportunity.

The book comes filled with useful cheat sheets. It helps you get your career organized in a tidy, presentable fashion. It also will inspire you to produce some attention-grabbing cover letters that convey your skills persuasively and attractively in your application packets.

After studying it, too, you'll be prepared for interviews, or you will be after you conducted the practice sessions where someone sits and asks you potential questions. It makes you think on your feet!

This book makes a world of difference in helping you stay away from vague and long-winded answers and you will be finally able to connect with prospective employers, including the one that will actually hire you.

This book successfully challenges conventional job search wisdom and doesn't load you with useful but obvious suggestions ("don't forget to wear a nice suit to your interview," for example). Instead, it deliberately challenges conventional job search wisdom, and in so doing, offers radical but inspired suggestions for success.

Think that "companies approach hiring with common sense, logic, and good business acumen and consistency?" Think that "the most qualified candidate gets the job?" Think again! Time and again it is proven that finding a job is a highly subjective business filled with innumerable variables. The triumphant jobseeker is the one who not only recognizes these inconsistencies and but also uses them to his advantage. Not sure how to do this? Don't worry-How to Land a Top-Paying Bookkeeping Accounting and Auditing Clerks Job guides the way.

Highly recommended to any harried Bookkeeping Accounting and Auditing Clerks jobseeker, whether you want to work for the government or a company. You'll plan on using it again in your efforts to move up in the world for an even better position down the road.

This book offers excellent, insightful advice for everyone from entry-level to senior professionals. None of the other such career guides compare with this one. It stands out because it: 1) explains how the people doing the hiring think, so that you can win them over on paper and then in your interview; 2) has an engaging, reader-friendly style; 3) explains every step of the job-hunting process - from little-known ways for finding openings to getting ahead on the job.

This book covers everything. Whether you are trying to get your first Bookkeeping Accounting and Auditing Clerks Job or move up in the system, get this book.
Price=$24.95
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Price=$20.20
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Made Easy Series Cover Letters Made Easy CONTENTS: Top 20 Openers To Get Your Cover Letter Read; Why a Cover Letter?; Cover Letter Varieties; What Employers Look For; Cover Letter Know How; Employer Transitions; Putting It All Together; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Sample Cover Letters.
Price=$9.94
Buy]]> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:34:27 -0600 http://www.career-bytes.com/store/products/cover-letters/cover-letters-6.htm http://www.career-bytes.com/store/products/cover-letters/cover-letters-6.htm

How to Land a Top-Paying Federal Job is the ultimate guide to securing a government job, internship, or fellowship. Written by a successful career coach who has climbed the federal career ladder herself and served as a hiring manager, the book steers applicants through every stage of their job searches—from finding unadvertised openings and getting interviews to sealing enviable deals and even get ting promoted.

Drawing on interviews with more than 100 federal hiring managers, the book reveals the secrets to impressing these gatekeepers online, on paper, and in person—information that is available nowhere else. The updated second edition includes more get-ahead tips; new templates for writing winning applications; expanded directories for internships, fast-track management training programs and fellowships; and the latest helpful websites.

Complete with a companion CD filled with sample résumés, checklists, and templates, this indispensable book gives readers the inside scoop on landing some of the nation’s most secure, well-paying, and rewarding jobs—in all 50 states and abroad!

What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much stronger document, be much better prepared and a step ahead for the next opportunity.

The book comes filled with useful cheat sheets. It helps you get your career organized in a tidy, presentable fashion. It also will inspire you to produce some attention-grabbing cover letters that convey your skills persuasively and attractively in your application packets.

After studying it, too, you'll be prepared for interviews, or you will be after you conducted the practice sessions where someone sits and asks you potential questions. It makes you think on your feet!

This book makes a world of difference in helping you stay away from vague and long-winded answers and you will be finally able to connect with prospective employers, including the one that will actually hire you.

This book successfully challenges conventional job search wisdom and doesn't load you with useful but obvious suggestions ("don't forget to wear a nice suit to your interview," for example). Instead, it deliberately challenges conventional job search wisdom, and in so doing, offers radical but inspired suggestions for success.

Think that "companies approach hiring with common sense, logic, and good business acumen and consistency?" Think that "the most qualified candidate gets the job?" Think again! Time and again it is proven that finding a job is a highly subjective business filled with innumerable variables. The triumphant jobseeker is the one who not only recognizes these inconsistencies and but also uses them to his advantage. Not sure how to do this? Don't worry-How to Land a Top-Paying Industrial Machinery Mechanics and Millwright Services Job guides the way.

Highly recommended to any harried Industrial Machinery Mechanics and Millwright Services jobseeker, whether you want to work for the government or a company. You'll plan on using it again in your efforts to move up in the world for an even better position down the road.

This book offers excellent, insightful advice for everyone from entry-level to senior professionals. None of the other such career guides compare with this one. It stands out because it: 1) explains how the people doing the hiring think, so that you can win them over on paper and then in your interview; 2) has an engaging, reader-friendly style; 3) explains every step of the job-hunting process - from little-known ways for finding openings to getting ahead on the job.

This book covers everything. Whether you are trying to get your first Industrial Machinery Mechanics and Millwright Services Job or move up in the system, get this book.
Price=$24.95
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From writing top-notch resumes and sending tailored cover letters to going on winning interviews, this best-selling Vault guide is a comprehensive one-volume job search source.
Price=$19.95
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Theoretical & practical guidance from a range of expert sources, with tips & success factors to understand & implement professional Cover Letter writing & presentation methods, strategies, technologies & other best-practice supporting tools.
Price=$29.95
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2012 is upon us and job hunting is the most brutal it has ever been!!

In "Headhunter" Hiring Secrets, discover how to use the secrets of headhunters to turn your job search into a job found! (New: The "Headhunter" Hiring Secrets Application Workbook, now available on Amazon.com, walks you through every step of the process.)

This is the ONLY book that a job seeker needs today. I'd put off reading this book because I was scared that it was the same crap I saw everywhere else...all the stuff I see from career coaches who don't have a clue. It's NOT. This is written by someone who is in the trenches and "in the know." This book will cut months off of your job-seeking time.---Jill Konrath, author, SNAP Selling and Selling to Big Companies

"FACT: The job market in 2011 is viciously competitive and is being played with new rules. It's way more aggressive than any you've seen before and it's going to stay that way! What Skip adds to your play book literally are secrets known by just a few of us: knowledge of what rules hiring companies are and are not playing by. This book is a MUST read. Ignore it at your career peril!"---David Perry, Co-author, Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 3.0

"In the not too distant past, I paid a 'career advisor' $6000 and am now reading 'Headhunter' Hiring Secrets. Let me tell you this - everything I paid $6000 for is in Skip's book for only $18. Take advantage of this book."---Reader Review dated Jan. 14, 2011

This book truly reveals the secrets to getting hired in today's job market.---AOL Jobs, Dec. 2010 (http://tinyurl.com/2axgfv9)

"'Headhunter' Hiring Secrets provides a feast of secrets that only someone like Freeman with his first-hand, in-the-trench experience, and powers of observation would bubble-up."---The Catholic Business Journal

"After reviewing the book, I must tell you this...I am surprised there hasn't been a backlash from the recruiting industry trying to get him to pull this book out of circulation given all of the insider secrets he has revealed!"---Hassaan Sophie, eGrabber, Inc.

"For the top echelon of professionals, headhunters are already on their trail, poised to alert them when an opportunity arises. For the rest of us, though, there are valuable tricks of the professional job-hunting trade that can be applied to our own career searches to maximize our own prospects."---Forbes on "Headhunter" Hiring Secrets

"If you want to win, you have to understand the new rules and start thinking like a headhunter.”---Atlanta Journal Constitution on "Headhunter" Hiring Secrets

What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much stronger document, be much better prepared and a step ahead for the next opportunity.

The book comes filled with useful cheat sheets. It helps you get your career organized in a tidy, presentable fashion. It also will inspire you to produce some attention-grabbing cover letters that convey your skills persuasively and attractively in your application packets.

After studying it, too, you'll be prepared for interviews, or you will be after you conducted the practice sessions where someone sits and asks you potential questions. It makes you think on your feet!

This book makes a world of difference in helping you stay away from vague and long-winded answers and you will be finally able to connect with prospective employers, including the one that will actually hire you.

This book successfully challenges conventional job search wisdom and doesn't load you with useful but obvious suggestions ("don't forget to wear a nice suit to your interview," for example). Instead, it deliberately challenges conventional job search wisdom, and in so doing, offers radical but inspired suggestions for success.

Think that "companies approach hiring with common sense, logic, and good business acumen and consistency? " Think that "the most qualified candidate gets the job? " Think again! Time and again it is proven that finding a job is a highly subjective business filled with innumerable variables.
Price=$30.45
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Using the right phrase at the right moment can make all the difference! It can generate real interest in you, provoke more questions, and show an interviewer that you are the right person for the job. The same applies to written communications such as letters or emails and to voice mail messages. Like learning a foreign language, these phrases, when practiced carefully and used properly, become natural and powerful techniques by which to express ones self. The advice, materials and phrases in Beyond the Resume arm you with appropriate actions to take and phrases to use. It is not the intent of the book to "prop you up" to sound like something you are not. Instead, it is to help you speak to your strengths, experiences, and job know-how. The book is a "soup to nuts" kind of book and takes you from the point of initial contact with the hiring authority, through interviewing, and on to closing the deal.

Beyond the Resume offers advice on all phases of a job search, including:

• Developing a resume • Writing letters • Cold-calling companies and recruiters • Leaving voice mail • Managing the interview • Responding to trick and non-relevant questions • And post interview correspondence

You will be armed with powerful and provoking phrases which catch the listener's or reader’s interest and enable you to follow up with meaningful information, rather than just being glib or using buzz-words.

Each chapter covers a different scenario or set of circumstances in which using the right phrases will pay off for you. Rational will be discussed, dos and don'ts highlighted, and advice given on how to construct and use the phrases.
Price=$14.99
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Here's the first book to identify hundreds of keywords job seekers should incorporate at critical stages in their job search.
Price=$14.00
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For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Geoscientists and Hydrologists Services job, or to apply for a better job.

What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much stronger document, be much better prepared and a step ahead for the next opportunity.

The book comes filled with useful cheat sheets. It helps you get your career organized in a tidy, presentable fashion. It also will inspire you to produce some attention-grabbing cover letters that convey your skills persuasively and attractively in your application packets.

After studying it, too, you'll be prepared for interviews, or you will be after you conducted the practice sessions where someone sits and asks you potential questions. It makes you think on your feet!

This book makes a world of difference in helping you stay away from vague and long-winded answers and you will be finally able to connect with prospective employers, including the one that will actually hire you.

This book successfully challenges conventional job search wisdom and doesn't load you with useful but obvious suggestions ("don't forget to wear a nice suit to your interview," for example). Instead, it deliberately challenges conventional job search wisdom, and in so doing, offers radical but inspired suggestions for success.

Think that "companies approach hiring with common sense, logic, and good business acumen and consistency? " Think that "the most qualified candidate gets the job? " Think again! Time and again it is proven that finding a job is a highly subjective business filled with innumerable variables.
Price=$30.45
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Put Your Career on the Fast Track. Get this book Now and Get Noticed By Top Employers Today for Top Paying Jobs as: Medical Assistants, Clinical Medical Assistants, Ophthalmic Medical Assistants, Optometric assistants, Podiatric Medical Assistants, Dialysis Patient Care Technician, Phlebotomist, Certified Nursing Assistant. For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Medical Assistant Job, or to apply for a better job, loaded with hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths.

The book comes filled with useful cheat sheets. It helps you get your career organized in a tidy, presentable fashion. It also will inspire you to produce some attention-grabbing cover letters that convey your skills persuasively and attractively in your application packets.

After studying it, too, you'll be prepared for interviews, or you will be after you conducted the practice sessions where someone sits and asks you potential questions. It makes you think on your feet!

This book makes a world of difference in helping you stay away from vague and long-winded answers and you will be finally able to connect with prospective employers, including the one that will actually hire you.Highly recommended to any harried Medical Assistant jobseeker, you'll plan on using it again in your efforts to move up in the world for an even better position down the road.

What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much stronger document, be much better prepared and a step ahead for the next opportunity.
Price=$29.95
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The Internet is a booming industry, and despite recent shakedowns demand for qualified employees continues to grow. While in 1998 there were 1.4 million high-tech jobs in the U.S., per the Burcau of Labor Statistics, that number is expected to rise to 2.7 million by 2008. Those who have the right credentials can have their pick of great jobs at top e-commerce companies. Now from the authors of the best-selling 101 Best Resumes comes a new collection of resumes and cover letters tailor-madc to equip high-tech job candidates to land their dream job in today's hottest job sector. Each resume and cover letter in this practical guide is prepared by one of the top experts from the Professional Association of Resume Writers (Parw). Using the same successful format and packaging that has propelled the 101 Best Resumes and Cover Letter books into bestsellers, this essential guide offers: Examples of outstanding resumes for every type of high-tech job: from C++ Programmer, to database administrator, to computer-based graphics designer, to data security manager, etc. Also features resumes for non-technical jobs in e-commerce such as marketing, sales, finance and recruiting; Successful styles and formats for dot-com resumes; Cover letters that will excite dot-com employers; Advice on how dot-com company requirements differ from traditional companies; Professional tips that will give candidates an edge-up in this competitive market.
Price=$11.95
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Clear, quick, effective solutions to the 50 most common resume problems

"No matter how much you think you know about writing resumes, you'll learn something new.  I'd recommend this book to anyone conducting or anticipating a job search."--Laura Lorber, Managing Editor, CareerJournal.com

In this solution-oriented guide, bestselling careers author John J. Marcus zeros in on the 50 most common resume writing problems and offers easy-to-perform fixes for each.

Among other crucial lessons, readers learn how to identify and deal effectively with job history problems, skill-set deficiencies, poor visual presentation, and formatting problems.

A compelling feature that distinguishes The Resume Makeover from all the competition is its unique quick-reference, "Before & After" format. Each chapter focuses on one common problem and offers a proven solution, along with before-and-after documents illustrating how a few simple changes can significantly improve a resume.

In addition, readers learn:

• How to write a resume in half the usual time
• Strategies for changing careers or reentering the workforce
• Key words and phrases to include
• How to write high-impact cover letters
• The five areas in which all recruiters and employers grade resumes, and how to ace each one

Hire Me, Inc. Resumes and Cover Letters

Here's the secret to getting your foot in the door for the job of your dreams: Market yourself with your resume and cover letter using the same methods a CEO uses to sell his products. Career expert Roy J. Blitzer shows you how to use these tools to stand out as a top candidate that any organization will jump to hire.

Blitzer reveals why standard, template resumes aren't enough. Instead, he shows you how to focus on measurable results and accomplishments to prove your worth and outshine your competition.

Valuable sample resumes, lists of the top action words, exercises and fill-in-the-blank work sheets help you craft a resume that gets you noticed-and hired.
Price=$19.95
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A solid, well-written cover letter is crucial to getting a job interview. Written under the auspices of the Job and Career Information Services Committee of the Public Library Association--a group of librarians with many years of collective experience in researching and providing job assistance information--this practical guide provides easy-to-follow instruction in crafting outstanding cover letters for any type of position. Completely updated, it features guidance in job seeking effectively online and the best ways to showcase experience with the latest technologies.

You're no idiot, of course. You read the classifieds every day, call your career counselors by their first names, and even help your friends write winning resumes. But when it comes to composing a fantastic cover letter, you feel like someone just slammed the job-opportunity door on your foot. Don't give up yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to The Perfect Cover Letter shows you how to write a cover letter taht convinces employers to call you for an interview. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get:

What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much stronger document, be much better prepared and a step ahead for the next opportunity.

The book comes filled with useful cheat sheets. It helps you get your career organized in a tidy, presentable fashion. It also will inspire you to produce some attention-grabbing cover letters that convey your skills persuasively and attractively in your application packets.

After studying it, too, you'll be prepared for interviews, or you will be after you conducted the practice sessions where someone sits and asks you potential questions. It makes you think on your feet!

This book makes a world of difference in helping you stay away from vague and long-winded answers and you will be finally able to connect with prospective employers, including the one that will actually hire you.

This book successfully challenges conventional job search wisdom and doesn't load you with useful but obvious suggestions ("don't forget to wear a nice suit to your interview," for example). Instead, it deliberately challenges conventional job search wisdom, and in so doing, offers radical but inspired suggestions for success.

Think that "companies approach hiring with common sense, logic, and good business acumen and consistency?" Think that "the most qualified candidate gets the job?" Think again! Time and again it is proven that finding a job is a highly subjective business filled with innumerable variables. The triumphant jobseeker is the one who not only recognizes these inconsistencies and but also uses them to his advantage. Not sure how to do this? Don't worry-How to Land a Top-Paying Registered Nurses Job guides the way.

Highly recommended to any harried Registered Nurses jobseeker, whether you want to work for the government or a company. You'll plan on using it again in your efforts to move up in the world for an even better position down the road.

This book offers excellent, insightful advice for everyone from entry-level to senior professionals. None of the other such career guides compare with this one. It stands out because it: 1) explains how the people doing the hiring think, so that you can win them over on paper and then in your interview; 2) has an engaging, reader-friendly style; 3) explains every step of the job-hunting process - from little-known ways for finding openings to getting ahead on the job.

This book covers everything. Whether you are trying to get your first Registered Nurses Job or move up in the system, get this book.
Price=$24.95
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Put Your Career on the Fast Track. Get this book Now and Get Noticed By Top Employers Today for Top Paying Jobs as: Graphic Designer, Web Graphic Designer, Web Designer, Instructional Designer, Interactive Designer, Web Developer, Art Director, User Interface Designer, Graphics Programmer, Graphic Artist, Production Artist, Graphic Artist, Multimedia Developer, Computer-Based Training Developer, Web Designer For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Graphic Designer Job, or to apply for a better job, loaded with hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths. The book comes filled with useful cheat sheets. It helps you get your career organized in a tidy, presentable fashion. It also will inspire you to produce some attention-grabbing cover letters that convey your skills persuasively and attractively in your application packets. After studying it, too, you'll be prepared for interviews, or you will be after you conducted the practice sessions where someone sits and asks you potential questions. It makes you think on your feet! This book makes a world of difference in helping you stay away from vague and long-winded answers and you will be finally able to connect with prospective employers, including the one that will actually hire you. Highly recommended to any harried Graphic Designer jobseeker, you'll plan on using it again in your efforts to move up in the world for an even better position down the road. What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much stronger document, be much better prepared and a step ahead for the next opportunity. This book offers excellent, insightful advice for everyone from entry-level to senior professionals. None of the other such career guides compare with this one. It stands out because it: 1) explains how the people doing the hiring think, so that you can win them over on paper and then in your interview; 2) has an engaging, reader-friendly style; 3) explains every step of the job-hunting process - from little-known ways for finding openings to getting ahead on the job. This book covers everything. Whether you are trying to get your first Graphic Designer Job or move up in the system, get this book.
Price=$19.95
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Do you want to learn how to write an interview-winning Cover Letter and STAND OUT FROM THE REST OF THE CROWD? Are you keen to know the sure-fire ways that will ensure you ‘grab the employer’s attention’ and land that job interview? Well, this book provides you with the strategies you need to get your application to the top of the ‘call for interview’ pile!

Look, the name of the game is “how to win an interview for the job you really want”. You can have the best CV (or Resume) in the world, but without a decent cover letter, I doubt whether any employer will even read it! With less than 10% of Resumes submitted making it into the selection pile, what you write in your cover letter can make all the difference to your success rate in winning interviews!

This easy-to-follow guide will take you through the whole letter-writing process. Now you too can crank out customized cover letters for any occasion. In this digital edition, I have included an extra 10 Letter Templates, giving you 35 COVER LETTER TEMPLATES to adapt. All the letters are ‘real-life’ examples, drawn from a cross-section of my coaching clients and EACH LETTER WON AN INTERVIEW FOR ITS WRITER!

I should point out that the letter templates featured in the book ARE NOT the bland, unfocussed documents you often find in some so-called ‘self-help’ books currently on the market. Quite apart from being a better quality product, the main difference is - THE LETTERS IN THIS BOOK ACTUALLY WORKED!! This step-by-step guide will dramatically increase your potential for success in winning interviews for the jobs you want. Do make sure it forms part of your communication ‘tool-box’ when marketing yourself to employers.

About The Author
Rob Hughes is a Certified Life Coach and Career Coach. Through his personal coaching programs and e-books, his mission is to provide job hunters and career-changers with the tools they need to close the gap between where they are right now and where they want to be on their career path. Rob’s e-books contain effective, no-nonsense techniques to identify and eliminate obstacles that prevent you from winning the job you truly deserve.

Rob's digital coaching books are priced to put them well within reach of EVERY JOB HUNTER! So, if you want to write a “Dynamite” Cover Letter, now you have NO EXCUSE for not taking action! Don’t be like 90% of the other job candidates out there, who are too “blinkered” to invest in their own future. As always, the bottom line is: It’s YOUR Life – YOUR Choice!”

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Write the perfect cover letter every time!

With fewer job opportunities and more applicants, just being qualified isn't enough to get the job you want. So how can you separate yourself from the pack? With the perfect cover letter, of course! With so much riding on it, a cover letter that attracts-and holds-the attention of your prospective employer is essential. This practical how-to manual shows you step by step how to create highly effective letters designed to get the interview you want.

The Perfect Cover Letter, Third Edition is an indispensable guide that covers all the vital elements of a great cover letter, so you know what to include and know how to phrase it. Inside you'll find:
* The nuts and bolts of every type of cover letter-what they should include, how employers use them, and how to write them
* Great sample cover letters, including general broadcast, executive search, networking, advertisement response, and personal introduction
* Tips on what makes a letter effective-and what doesn't
* Helpful guidelines on following up-writing the post-interview thank you letter


With greatly expanded information on thank you letters and an entirely new chapter on the all-important networking cover letter, this update of the popular classic continues to offer top-notch advice and high-quality samples that will help any job hunter get the attention they deserve.
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Put Your Career on the Fast Track. Get this book Now and Get Noticed By Top Employers Today for Top Paying Jobs as: Controller, Financial Manager,Treasurer, Finance Officer , Credit manager , Cash manager , Risk and Insurance managers, Assistant Controller, Senior Accountant, Staff Accountant, Financial Analyst For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Controller Job, or to apply for a better job, loaded with hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths. The book comes filled with useful cheat sheets. It helps you get your career organized in a tidy, presentable fashion. It also will inspire you to produce some attention-grabbing cover letters that convey your skills persuasively and attractively in your application packets. After studying it, too, you'll be prepared for interviews, or you will be after you conducted the practice sessions where someone sits and asks you potential questions. It makes you think on your feet! This book makes a world of difference in helping you stay away from vague and long-winded answers and you will be finally able to connect with prospective employers, including the one that will actually hire you. Highly recommended to any harried Controller jobseeker, you'll plan on using it again in your efforts to move up in the world for an even better position down the road. What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much stronger document, be much better prepared and a step ahead for the next opportunity. This book offers excellent, insightful advice for everyone from entry-level to senior professionals. None of the other such career guides compare with this one. It stands out because it: 1) explains how the people doing the hiring think, so that you can win them over on paper and then in your interview; 2) has an engaging, reader-friendly style; 3) explains every step of the job-hunting process - from little-known ways for finding openings to getting ahead on the job. This book covers everything. Whether you are trying to get your first Controller Job or move up in the system, get this book.
Price=$19.95
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FastPop Books publishes the best affordable, succinct, practical, and memo-sized guides on a number of topics.

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Your CV and cover letter are your first communication with a prospective employer. As the job market is becoming increasingly competitive, making the right first impression has never been more important. If you compromise on the quality of your CV and cover letter, and you reduce your chances of winning an interview. This book, which will appeal to anyone from entry-level to board level, encompasses a step-by-step guide on how to achieve killer competitive advantage by producing an impressive CV and cover letter. The job acquisition process, which has changed significantly in recent years, is discussed fully, and effective job-hunting tactics are provided. Interviews undertaken with top HR professionals, who are often the first point of entry, outline what you need to do to impress them. Their views and opinions are provided throughout the book. The book and CD are packed with practical examples of CVs and cover letters that have worked in real-life. These individuals were struggling to win interviews prior to their CV revamp. Their new CVs secured several interviews, many of which resulted in job offers. The CD contains CV and cover letter templates, and full transcripts of interviews held with the twelve industry experts from blue chip employers such as Vodafone, Tesco, KPMG, Korn Ferry and Jonathan Wren.
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A 192-page book, Real-Resumes for Career Changers shows actual resumes and cover letters that helped real people change fields or industries. At a time when research shows that most working people have three distinctly different careers, at last there is a book which reveals the successful techniques involved in changing fields. Real-Resumes for Career Changers is based on the philosophy that an effective career-change resume must build bridges to new opportunities. The Table of Contents is designed to show individuals in varying degrees of career change and seeking different goals: finding a new career after motherhood, finding a new product to sell or represent, finding a completely different type of work to do, seeking a change but staying in the same industry, changing fields with absolutely no idea whats next, changing fields with a pretty good idea about whats ahead, and changing from self-employment to something totally different. Each resume and its companion cover letter shown is a picture of a successful career change, and the theory behind the book is that a picture is worth a thousand words. Real-Resumes Series editor Anne McKinney believes strongly that career-change resumes are the most unusual and most creative because they are selling potential rather than experience.

All resumes in the book are one page in length, and all resumes are accompanied by a companion cover letter. The book begins with a brief section explaining the most effective job-hunting approachthe direct approach. This unique how-to book does not simply tell how to write an effective career-change resume and cover letter; it shows how in page after page of meaty examples.

Other titles in the series being released in the year 2000 are: Real-Resumes for Teachers, Real-Resumes for Students, Real-Resumes for Sales, and Real Essays for College & Grad School.
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Communications professor Quentin Schultze shares the secrets to crafting strong, impressive resumes and cover letters for students and recent grads with minimal job experience.

Hordes of anxious college seniors show up at Professor Schultze’s office door each year, unsure of how to cast their life experiences in a way that will make them stand out to hiring managers. Dr. Schultze, who has taught a resume-writing course for the past 15 years, has become attuned to the unique concerns of those writing their first-career resumes. Coauthored by teacher Bethany Kim, this practical guide helps students identify their passions, key transferable skills, and applicable experiences, write compelling resumes and cover letters, and score those interviews.
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John Wood sees it with numbing regularity: the query letter that comes close to making a sale - until the writer makes some fatal, but avoidable mistake.

So the Modern Maturity senior editor wrote this letter-writer's guidebook. Read it, learn from it, use its secrets to write queries that get accepted.

Discover:

• why boldness beats blandness every time
  
  
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• how to make a big impression with a little cover letter
  
  
• the 10 basics you must have in your article query
  
  
• the 10 query blunders that can ruin your chances
  
  
• how to dramatize your novel with a query/synopsis package
  
  
• what a book proposal is, why you need it, and how to write it

Wood includes chapter-ending Question & Answer sections that clarify issues concerning the type of letter at hand. He's also packed the book with illustrative samples. You'll see many that are pure dynamite - and one real bomb.

Read this book and immediately begin to write energetic, masterly, persuasive letters. Keep editors hanging on your words. Make them eager to buy your work.
Price=$14.99
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201 Killer Cover Letters provides job seekers with an unbeatable competitive edge by arming them with surefire sample letters for every job-hunting situation. This edition of the bestselling guide includes the latest job-search techniques, tips for transferring job skills across industries, and ways to use the cover letter to anticipate and overcome "objectionable items or gaps in employment." Building on the success of the computer disk edition, the CD-ROM edition contains ready-to-download templates of all 201 letters, for CD-ROM-compatible computers, making it easier than ever for readers to tailor cover letters to specific situations.

Author Brenda Greene surveyed 60+ Fortune 500 hiring managers and human resource executives to get you the answers—and the interview. Packed with sample resumes and cover letters that represent what hiring managers, directors, and vice presidents want to see, Get the Interview Every Time provides job seekers with the confidence to know they can create a message that stands out—and get the interview.

Fully updated and expanded with advice on how to get the interview and then what to do in the interview process—Get the Interview Every Time breaks down the monumental task of landing an interview into a series of manageable steps, easy to understand and inspiring to follow. Designed to transform confused, disheartened job applicants into savvy, prospective employees, Get the Interview Every Time shows how to ""open the gates"" through sensible, targeted self-marketing.
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Whether it's interviewing for a job, evaluating employee performance, setting goals for the future, or keeping customers happy, the Perfect Phrases series has the tools for precise, effective business communication. Distilling complex ideas into specific phrases that diplomatically and honestly depict the concepts at hand, this invaluable series provides:

• Ways to enhance customer service in any business
• Dialogues and scripts to practice interactions with customers or employees--tailorable to any industry or company culture
• The best answers to a wide range of interview questions
• Tips for documenting performance issues and conducting face-to-face reviews

The ideal reference for anyone trying to create the most professional and polished cover letter possible, this book offers phrases that help create a strong first impression for prospective employers.

Based on professionally written cover letters that have landed real jobs, sample letters are included for every occasion:

Get noticed and get the interview-with the right cover letter

A great cover letter is the best way to show prospective employers who you are and what you can offer. So don't blow it! 202 Great Cover Letters delivers a treasure trove of sample cover letters that will get you noticed whether you're applying online or in person. No matter what industry you work in, you'll find an effective, smart cover letter for virtually any position.

In addition to attention-grabbing sample letters, 202 Great Cover Letters is packed with vital job search information:

• Smart guidelines for researching a company's needs
• Handy networking concepts and ideas
• Valuable tips on contacting recruiters during and after interviews
• Proven advice for every situation, including cold contact and posting on job boards
• Important keywords top recruiters look for

Whether you're just out of college, just out of work, or just looking for a change of career, 202 Great Cover Letters gives you all the samples, formats, and strategies you need to make that all-important first impression.

"You'll learn how to build a compelling new network in days that gets you sit-down meetings with decision makers who can hire you, for jobs that aren't advertised or don't even exist yet."
—Kevin Donlin, creator, TheSimpleJobSearch.com; co-creator, The Guerrilla Job Search Home Study Course

"This book is brilliant. Packed with stories, examples, and tactics to help you at any point in your job search-this book is all about landing a real job with intense competition in a minimal amount of time."
—Jason Alba, CEO, JibberJobber.com; author, I'm on LinkedIn—Now What???

"Recruiters: read this book! You're going to need it. When people start following the advice in Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0, you're going to be looking for a job."
—Shelly Harrison, founder and CEO, Launch Pad

"Job hunters don't need to be told the 'what' of job hunting, they want and need to know the 'hows.' They are all here and then some."
—Dave Opton, founder and CEO, ExecuNet.com

"Changes in information and communication technologies have created new opportunities and pitfalls for the job seeker. Stand out from the crowd and truly shine by illuminating your most important talents to the broadest audience—in a cost-effective fashion."
—Sam Zales, President, Zoom Information Inc.

"Don't get lost on the battlefield, win the war. Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0 will give you the ammunition to get noticed."
—Donato Diorio, CEO, Broadlook Technologies

"Lays out a straightforward and detailed 'plan of attack' for every step of a job search...an indispensable tool for job seekers to land the interview."
—Gautam Godhwani, CEO, SimplyHired.com

"Competition for the best positions is especially fierce and every candidate will be looking for an edge. If you want to get the edge...you need to get this great new book."
—Steven Rothberg, founder, CollegeRecruiter.com

"The only book that explains step by step, how to land interviews with the companies you choose AND create a high-visibility profile attracting employers-like a moth to a flame."
—Terrence Kulka, Director, Executive MBA Program, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa

"Beyond your Guerrilla Resume...here's how to take charge of your personal brand, and stand out from the crowd leveraging LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, and more."
—Peter Clayton, CEO, Total Picture Radio

P.S.—We knew you'd read this far. How did we know this? Please turn to Chapter 5 and read, "One Unusual Way to End Your Guerrilla Cover Letter."
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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.
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The Job-Seeker's Bible

The Future of Jobs: How to Find and Keep the Right Job.

This new edition focuses on helping to craft the mindset necessary to maintain continuous employment given the new workplace environment and how we communicate, how companies recruit and hire, your ability to adapt and change, and comprehend the very nature of the jobs you will hold going forward.
           
Whether you're searching for a new job or trying to hang on to the one you have, 5 Necessary Skills will give you the advantages you need.
 
You'll learn:
* how to be proactive
* how to be cognizant of and recognize what's going on in your company
* the importance of networking
* the importance of finding a mentor
* and how to deal with bad bosses.
 
Those people who exhibit the 5 Necessary Skills are the ones who will get and hold onto the best jobs - and you could be one of them.

"Being prepared for the twists and turns and disappointments of today's job market means we have to take control of our lives and gain knowledge about how to handle them."

-Carol Kleiman, Author of Winning the Job Game: The New Rules for Finding and Keeping the Job You Want
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This popular guide contains everything you need to create a stunningly effective cover letter. The first edition of DYNAMIC COVER LETTERS helped over 100,000 job-hunters dress up their resumes and job applications with the kind of spirited, informative letters that employers respond to. And respond they did—with interviews, job offers, and high praise. Now, this updated, expanded edition takes on the most vital issues in the professional world today, such as job-hunting on the Internet, as well as the rock-solid basics that readers have come to depend on.
Price=$14.95
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This book has it all! It's three books in one. the print copy is over 375 pages. This compilation includes the three Career Essential books - The Resume, The Cover Letter, The Interview. Learn everything you need to know right from creating a dynamite resume, a compelling cover letter to great interview techniques that will help you nail your interview. All three books are available separately and now they are available in one package. If you are job hunting, looking at changing your career, or even considering what options you have, this book will help you to gain clarity to make your move - regardless of what it is. There's no need to wait. Learn everything you need to know to get through the process and find the right job for you.
Price=$19.75
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The ultimate guide to cover letters that will set you apart from the pack-revised, updated, and ready for anything . . .

175 High-Impact Cover Letters, Third Edition arms job seekers with an arsenal of highly effective professional cover letter models that, with minor modification, can be rapidly deployed as needed. You'll find a full chapter, complete with numerous models, dedicated to each of five different types of cover letters: employer broadcast letters, search firm broadcast letters, advertising response letters, networking cover letters, and resume letters.

With step-by-step instructions and a wealth of samples, 175 High-Impact Cover Letters shows you how to prepare a well-written, professional letter that will help you land the interview every time. For the Third Edition, almost every letter has been substantially rewritten or fine-tuned to reflect the current thinking and terminology in the field of staffing, while an entirely new chapter provides proven "do's" and "don'ts" of effective cover letter writing. You'll find:

• Examples of more than 175 winning cover letters
• Cover letters appropriate for junior and senior experience levels in twenty-eight different occupations
• Sample job ads and the appropriate cover letter response
• Results of an authoritative survey of employment professionals that highlight what employers look for in cover letters

No matter how impressive your resume, it's your cover letter that employers read first. With 175 High-Impact Cover Letters, Third Edition, you can make sure they'll be eager to turn to the next page.
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Polished: The Cover Letter, Resume and Interviewing Guide written specifically for college students and other first time job seekers!

 Wondering what recruiters really look for in job and internship candidates? Eager to position yourself for success?

Polished reveals invaluable tips that will make employers notice you! Real life examples from a seasoned executive will teach you how to put your best foot forward in all stages of the job search, including:

• Cover Letters - create focused, concise prose that highlights your skills and advances you to the interview

• Resumes - develop insightful techniques that make it easy for employers to find and understand your key selling points

• Interviewing - leverage the value of your first impression by crafting your appearance and articulating your words for maximum effect

• Career Choice - assess careers and organizations to find the best match with your own personality and professional goals 

This twenty-fifth edition of Martin Yate's guide contains:

• Strategies for the long-term unemployed about how to best focus on their skills and strengths to win a job
• Completely revised "Where the Jobs Are" section, with new advice for where to find the best employment opportunities in 2011
• A new introductory chapter that focuses on long-term career management

Today more applicants struggle for fewer jobs. Yate shows you how to get an edge, whether you're a recent college graduate, unemployed, or contemplating a career change. And once you get a foot in the door, this book shows you how to ace the interview and clinch an attractive, exciting job offer.
Price=$10.85
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This book distills revolutionary and proven cover letter advice into six quick chapters about writing and using cover letters and other job search correspondence. The book offers a collection of dozens of professionally written cover letter samples along with step-by-step advice for creating attention-getting letters of your own. Bonus content offers tip on resume writing and job search success.
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This new second edition includes more than 150 winning cover letters for every profession and situation. Readers get great tips from before and after transformations that turn boring letters into knockouts. Plus, there are tips on resumes, e-mail and scannable cover letters, thank-you letters, and dozens of sample opening paragraphs. Also provides proven first paragraphs to start the cover letter with strength.
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"It's amazing the myths one can find in some resume books. Scott Bennett has hired hundreds of people in a variety of industries, and he knows firsthand what kinds of resumes spark the interest of employers. In The Elements of Resume Style, Bennett explains why some of the most popular "tricks" backfire more often than they work, and offers clear, smart strategies for creating resumes and cover letters that get people jobs. From entry-level to executive, users of this invaluable guide will: * See their resume from the employer's perspective * Avoid the errors most candidates make * Handle job-hopping, employment gaps, and other touchy subjects honestly and effectively * Write cover letters that stand out -- and learn the untapped power of the inquiry letter The book features: * 1,400+ Sample Action Words, Action Statements, and Position Descriptions/Blurbs * 200+ Vague Claims to Avoid and 500+ More Words and Phrases to Avoid * Sample Resume Format, Sample Response Letter, Sample Inquiry Letter * Sample Informational Interview Request Letter * Sample Response to Request for Salary Requirements * Sample Salary History, Sample References The battle for jobs is tighter than ever. The Elements of Resume Style can help you make sure your first salvo is as powerful and on-target as possible."
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The latest strategies for job hunters revealed in this revised and updated edition

This new Third Edition features the latest job-hunting strategies for the Information Age. You'll discover key techniques to reach hiring managers at the employers you want to work for most. New chapters integrate using social media and social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and ZoomInfo in your job search, along with case studies from successful guerrilla job hunters that detail what works in today's hyper competitive job market with commentary from America's top recruiters.

• Present your skills in creative new ways that stand out in today's hyper-competitive job market
• Employ little-known search engine optimization tricks used by top headhunters
• Integrated web site updated bi-weekly to remain state-of-the-moment
• Part of the Guerrilla Marketing Series, the bestselling marketing book series

The job search process has changed drastically in the past few years. Turn these changes to your advantage and make your search successful with Guerilla Marketing for Job Hunters 3.0.
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Face it--words matter when it comes to getting noticed, getting the interview, and getting the job. In this invaluable guide to crafting the pitch that opens doors, staffing experts Schuman and Nadler give you hundreds of tools to make that happen. You will no longer struggle to find the phrases that best highlight your achievements; instead, you'll garner attention with such smart options as:

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  "Extraordinary.... A hundred books in one.... This book is a home run." -- From the FOREWORD by Richard N. Bolles, author of the best-selling "What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers"

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  Quentin Schultze, Ph.D. (AKA "Dr. Q"), is a well-published and prize-winning author, a popular speaker, and an award-winning college teacher with over 30 years experience mentoring students and graduates. Bethany Kim is a writer, teacher, and consultant on teaching English to adult learners.

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  Your cover letter is what decides if a company looks at your resume, contacts you for an interview, or gets you placed in the rejection pile. Knowing that, it is important to create a well-written, eye-catching letter that sells your achievements and job skills to impress the recruiter. However, many people are unable to effectively translate their thoughts into words when faced with the task. That is where The Complete Guide to Writing Effective Resume Cover Letters comes in. With this book you will be able to craft a letter that will undoubtedly land you the interview. In this new book, you will learn how to address your letter, how to grab the reader s attention immediately, how to format your letter, how to choose the font, how to be professional but persuasive, how to choose the type of paper, and how to target your letter. You will also learn about writing the different kinds of letters, including those in response to a classified advertisement, those in response to a blind advertisement, those sent to employment agencies, cold letters, and broadcast letters; writing style guidelines; what to include in your letter; writing for an online audience; cover letter styles; and common mistakes recruiters abhor. Additionally, you will find examples of effective and ineffective letters, proven tips for making your letter stand out, sample phrases to use, and letters for new graduates, for professionals, and for those changing careers. Also included are samples specific to job industries, including administration and clerical; accounting; banking and finance, government; health care and social services; hospitality and food service; human resources; law enforcement and legal; manufacturing; sales, marketing, and customer service; skilled trades; technology; and science and engineering. The companion CD-ROM is packed with samples and worksheets to help you brainstorm and create a successful cover letter. By following the step-by-step instructions outlined in The Complete Guide to Writing Effective Resume Cover Letters you will ensure that your letter will impress the recruiter and that you will be contacted for an interview. In the end you will create a tool that will be of enormous importance to you in your job search.
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  Gallery of Best Cover Letters debunks many cover letter myths and includes expert tips for writing and designing a letter for maximum impact. A diverse collection of more than 300 new and updated cover letters and 23 corresponding resumes gives readers a wide range of exemplary models that showcase the most attractive and impressive materials written by professionals. Featuring cover letter samples and resumes for a variety of careers, this resource provides high school and college students, as well as adult job seekers, with expert advice and solid writing strategies suited for their specific career interests. Using the samples as a guide and following Noble’s advice, job seekers are sure to write outstanding and creative cover letters that steal the limelight from their competitors.
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  Americas leading job search and career guidance expert presents his definitive guide to resumes, offering well-researched and proven techniques; a friendly, easy-to-follow design; and rock-solid advice to create outstanding resumes and, more importantly, use them effectively. The very easy-to-use first section of the book shows how to create a basic resume in about an hour and an improved resume in about half a day. The new edition includes more than 90 sample resumes written by professional resume writers for all types of jobs and people. The book also provides excellent career counseling sections to help people define their ideal job then go out and get it. This book can help anyone find a job from high school graduates to high-level professionals.
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  In today's fast-paced world, many job seekers skip creating the perfect introduction. But when competition for every job is intense, a cover letter can make a strong first impression and help an applicant stand out from the crowd. In this newest edition of his bestselling text, Martin Yate shows you the four kinds of cover letters--general, executive briefing, broadcast, and letters to recruiters and agencies--and how to craft each one.

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  Today’s economy leaves little room for second chances in the job market. Hiring managers are swamped with applications. What are you doing to rise to the top of the pile and get noticed? If it isn't creating a cover letter driven by facts and filled with punch, you aren't doing enough. The cover letter is often overlooked as a key marketing tool – the perfect introduction. It can be blank and uninteresting or it can offer the potential employer exactly what they are seeking. Don’t overlook this simple step that can improve your chances over other candidates. This book walks you through the various elements of a good cover letter, taking you through each step with plenty of examples to show exactly what you need to know to create the best cover letter over and over again. Make yours the one that brings the light of relief into the recruiter's eye as they see the perfect candidate. At just over a hundred pages, this concise, easy to read guide is full of professional information that will make your job search take off.
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  For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Conservation Scientists and Foresters job, or to apply for a better job.

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