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Table of Contents

Preface - How to Use This Book   ix
1 - Why You Need a Resume   1
2 - What Your Resume Can Do for You   2
3 - The Rules of Resume Writing   4
4 - Resume English Simplified   6
5 - Writing Your Resume: Style Overview   11
6 - Writing Your Resume: The One Thing You MUST Do First   15
7 - Writing Your Resume: Getting Started with the Heading   19
8 - Writing Your Resume: Win or Lose in the First Ten Lines   23
9 - Writing Your Resume: Jobs and Dates   28
10 - Writing Your Resume: What to Do about Common Problems   37
11 - Writing Your Resume: Education and Additional Data   44
12 - Writing Your Resume: Putting It All Together   53
13 - Sample Resumes   59
14 - Special Styles, More Solutions   72
15 - How to Get Interviews and Plan and Manage a Job Search   94
16 - Cover Letters: Don’t Write One until You Read Chapter 15   111
17 - Go for It! This Is Your Life   127
Index   129

About the Author

DONALD ASHER is the author of ten books on the topics of careers and higher education. He is a contributing writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Wall Street Journal's CareerJournal.com and CollegeJournal.com, USAirways Magazine, MSN Encarta and MSN homepage, Dow Jones's National Business Employment Weekly and Managing Your Career magazines, and many other publications and career sites. He visits more than one hundred university campuses every year to discuss career management topics from salary negotiations to linking your major to your life goals.

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