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Resume Help

Jul 26, 2009 Product and Site Reviews, Resume Help

There is lots of advice out there on crafting a good resume, some of it very good, such as Guerilla Resumes and the can’t miss resume writing strategies in The Rainy Day Guide to Finding a Job. Still, if you are a visual kind of person who needs to see specific examples or templates of resumes or need hep that is very unique or particular to your field or if you want to tailor your resume for different industries, you’ll have to search through a lot of websites for free samples or buy a lot of books. Why not embrace the 21st century and let software do it for you? With Nova WinWay Resume Deluxe you will have 14,000 resumes at your disposal which you can customize any way you like (using the winning strategies in the two references mentioned above, of course!) The software also includes hundreds of cover letters, contact manager, plug and play key phrases, and a lot more. You can run your whole job search campaign through the software, automating a lot of the tedious parts of the job search so you can focus on the important stuff like making phone calls to contacting decisionmakers, arrange interviews and meetings, and crafting your proposal–the document that is going to tell the employer you’ve done your homework and can do the job.

Nova WinWay Resume Deluxe v.12.0
Price: $42.99
www.novadevelopment.com WinWay Resume Deluxe is the result of more than a decade of research and innovation in career development software. Version 12.0 features enhanced Resume Auditor, the foolproof system for catching mistakes before employers do, plus a “”Save as PDF”" feature for sending your resume to prospective employers in a fixed format. 14, 000+ Resumes for every career imaginable. 116, 000+ Job-winning phrases. Brand New User Interface. 400+ Professional cover letters. 250+ Themes and 400 Fonts. Save as PDF file format. Resume Auditor Enhanced. Search millions of job openings online. Post your resume to leading career sites. Fit your resume to one page. Export your resume to Microsoft Word. Multimedia Interview Simulator. Powerful contact manager with mail merge. Processor: Pentium Class PC or higher Operating System: Windows 2000, XP and Vista Optical Drive: CD-ROM Others: Internet access required for Internet features Software RHWT CD-ROM Nova Development Corp WinWay Resume Deluxe v.12.0 Resume Designing Productivity Application PC Nova WinWay Resume Deluxe v.12.0

Brand: Nova Development

Of course, software can’t replace one-on-one career counseling and coaching. Check out these free job search resources in your state.

Tags: book, career, contacts, cover letter, resume, software, templates, writing

10 things you need to know before you start your job search

Jul 20, 2009 Product and Site Reviews

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Have you heard the saying that goes something like execution is three quarters planning? Well, from project management to your job search, thinking through your plan of action is the key to success. You don’t have to know everything, but there are a number of critical pieces of information you need to find out in order to make sure each action you take is going to lead to your next job. You can avoid a lot of time wasting, frustration, dead ends, and a silent phone by asking yourself the following:

Do I…?
1. know what’s on my credit bureau reports and why it’s important in the job search.
2. know how to take care of my finances until I land a new job.
3. know what my major strengths are and the types of work I could perform well.
4. know my values, characteristics and attitudes and can clearly communicate them.
5. I have enough information to present and demonstrate my qualifications.
6. know when I am distressed.
7. know when and how to use a resume, a cover letter, a note card, or a business card
8. know my references and prepared them to respond on my behalf.
9. know how to collect and organize a list of people who I know and turn them into job search contacts.
10. know how to develop a network to reach decisionmakers and hiring managers.

And here’s five more for good measure…
11. know how to develop job leads when you have no network.
12. know what to wear and what not to wear.
13. know how to obtain company information from research.
14. know how to answer ads in a way that guarantees you get called in for an interview.
15. know how to rock an interview!

If there’s even one thing on the list that you are unsure of or think you don’t know, you should definitely consider purchasing one of the few comprehensive job search resources with up to date job hunting advice to get up to speed. The Rainy Day Guide to Finding a Job answers all of the above and then some.

To your success!

Tags: book, hidden, job search, jobs, preparation, prepare

How to Use the Little Red Book of Sales Answers in Your Job Search

Jul 20, 2009 Product and Site Reviews

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In the past when I’ve had a tough time in the job search, I’ve found inspiration and brilliant ideas looking at the techniques from other professions. For example, you can get good ideas for your cover letters and resumes by looking at the examples of top copywriters, whose whole profession is to create written materials that sell. In fact, when you are in the job market, a big part of what you are doing is selling yourself. The things is, how do you go about it? Are you marketing yourself like a cheap informercial product or useless products that people have to be heavily convinced or even tricked to buy? Or, knowing that you are a skilled, exceptional, highly competent and dedicated worker that any employer would be lucky to have, are you putting your best foot forward so that when hiring managers and decision makers come across you or your materials they are already sold? Which seems like the better strategy? The latter course is a no brainer. The problem is that a lot of job search books re-hash the same old advice (albeit in increasingly creative ways) about resumes and cover letters, the importance of networking, etc. But just how do you do these things effectively, especially the cold calling and networking that will uncover those “hidden” jobs that successful jobseekers know and use to their advantage so well?

How about going with what works in another field, say, the world of sales. Sales professionals who make commissions for a living have to know what they are doing or they starve. In fact, sales is the kind of cut throat field that weeds out the poor performers really quickly, letting the best rise to the top and make lots of money. In a down economy like we are currently experiencing, those good in sales are still making a financial killing. (Their savings and assets may have taken a hit, though, like the rest of us. But they are in a better position to rebuild.)

Every commercial industry is engaged in some form of selling–either retail products to consumers, financial or insurance services, or business to business sales (e.g. supplies for a hospital or office), and so forth. One bestselling tool used by top sellers is the The Sales Bible by Jeffrey Gitomer. In this book, and his other titles, like the Little Red Book of Sales Answers and Little Red Book of Selling, he uses plain talk to make the psychology of sales accessible and easy to understand with checlists, cartoons, bulleted lists, and so forth. That’s why I think it makes a useful tool for jobseekers, as the tips can be easily translated to how to succeed in the job search. For example, the Little Red Book of Sales Answers covers things like:

asking for appointments (same skill needed to set up informational interview–a part of networking)
ask for the sale (why not ask for the job?)
earn referrals (get other people to recommend you to future employers, something I cover in the free report on how to get employers to notice you)
establishing rapport (kind of handy during interview, no?)
overcoming price objections (name your salary and stick to it)

and so much more!

In fact, the subtitlte of the Little Red Book of Sales Answers is: “99.5 Real Life Answers that Make Sense, Make Sales, and Make Money.” Read more about these great books below and use top sales techniques to land your next job.

Little Red Book of Sales Answers: 99.5 Real World Answers That Make Sense, Make Sales, and Make Money (Jeffrey Gitomer’s Little Books)
Price: $13.59
Pages: 208, Hardcover, FT Press