The World's Greatest Resumes
by WILLIAM MEIER, ROBERTFormat: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2005-05-01
Publisher(s): Ten Speed Press
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Summary
The quickest way to a hiring manager's heart is an attention-getting resume that proves your value. In The World's Greatest Resumes, career coach Robert Wm. Meier explains how to turn your resume into the perfect job-seeking device. Using the world's first Resume Rater, Meier teaches you to evaluate your resume's power rating and then find your Resume Quality Index score, a quality standard for resumes similar to the academic GPA. Designed to gauge how well existing resumes elevate the job seeker above the competition, the Resume Rater will show you how to grade and improve your resume based on your ability to prove your value, to show that you accomplished corporate goals, and to demonstrate that your career is progressing.
Author Biography
ROBERT WM. MEIER has taught resume-writing skills, interview techniques, and salary negotiation through his career-consulting firm since 1991. He lives in Chicago.
Table of Contents
| Introducing the World's Greatest Resumes | |
| Start Here | p. 3 |
| The Resume Quality Rater | |
| Why Is the Resume Rater Necessary | p. 7 |
| A Word about My Style of Resume Writing | p. 11 |
| The Resume Quality Rater & RQI | |
| Overview and Blank Resume Quality Rater | p. 14 |
| Prove Your Value Section | p. 15 |
| Prove You Met Corporate Goals Section | p. 16 |
| Prove Your Career Is Progressing Section | p. 17 |
| Scoring | p. 17 |
| The 10 rules of A Powerful Resume | |
| The Resume Quality Rater's Ten Questions Defined Rules | |
| Numbers, Percentages, and Quantities | p. 21 |
| Don't Describe Job Tasks | p. 24 |
| Prove Your Result | p. 27 |
| Identify Largest, First-Ever, Top 20 Percent Results | p. 30 |
| Prove You Reduced Cost or Made Money for the Company | p. 33 |
| Define Projects You've led or Supported and Explain Results | p. 36 |
| Define How You Met Corporate Goals | p. 38 |
| Define How Each Job Progressed in Challenge and Responsibility | p. 41 |
| Correlate What You've Done to Fit Your Career Objective | p. 45 |
| Demonstrate You Have a Good Professional Pedigree | p. 49 |
| Before and After Resume Examples | |
| The Resume Rater in Action | |
| Jeff Conway - Finance - Banking | p. 53 |
| Aaron Parker - Realtor - International Business | p. 63 |
| Sam Bently - Technology Sales - Account Executive | p. 67 |
| Jim Lambert - Franchise Owner - Investor Consultant | p. 71 |
| Richard Altman - Physical Education Teacher - Physical Education Teacher | p. 76 |
| Daniel Wallace - Director Special Projects - Systems Administrator | p. 81 |
| Abby Harrington - Executive Director - Chief Operating Officer | p. 87 |
| Paul Bender - Retail Sales Clerk - Systems Administrator | p. 94 |
| Elise Hanson - Printing Sales - Pharmaceutical Sales | p. 98 |
| Jennifer Johnson - Account Executive - Business Development Manager | p. 103 |
| April Lawrence - Management Trainee - Director Human Resources | p. 107 |
| Caroline Reagan - Pet Food Sales - Industrial Sales | p. 111 |
| Scott Washburn - Contract Negotiations - Contract Negotiator | p. 117 |
| Eric Werner - Admin. Project Assistant - National Account Manager | p. 123 |
| Chuck Randall - Foreman - Superintendent | p. 126 |
| Eileen Wilkenson - Marketing Temp - Associate Director | p. 131 |
| Larena Paredo - Dental Hygienist - Sales Representative | p. 135 |
| Jonathan Hampton - CSR - eCommerce Consultant | p. 139 |
| Vanessa Martin - Librarian - Librarian | p. 143 |
| Nathan Rockwell - Painting Business Owner - Project Manager | p. 147 |
| Kent Bradley - Police Officer - Cellular Tower Negotiator | p. 151 |
| Edward Bailey - Sr. Database Administrator - Database Administrator Manager | p. 155 |
| Frederick Taylor - VP Foreign Equities Trade - VP Capital Market Services | p. 162 |
| Phillip Langdon - Telecomm. Instructor - Telecomm. Instructor | p. 168 |
| Roderick Anderson - Assoc. Dir. of Financial Aid - Dir. of Financial Aid | p. 174 |
| Resume Questionnaire | p. 179 |
| Comparison Chart | p. 181 |
| About the Author | p. 183 |
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