Wow! Resumes for Administrative Careers: How to Put Together A Winning Resume
Wow! Resumes for Administrative Careers: How to Put Together A Winning Resume
The first and only resume-writing handbook designed expressly for secretaries and other office workers, this savvy guide shows you how to use leading-edge strategies to sell yuor special skills, talents, and achievements in a polished, powerful resume that will dazzle employers. Best of all, you’ll learn how to beat the competition with a trageted resume that zeroes in on a prospective employer’s exact needs. Loaded with precise details, samples, and examples, it reveals how to hook an employer’s interest in the first few lines; enhance all job descriptions with powerful, professional wording, transform even menial job tasks into impressive information; discover and showcase skills and achievements you never even knew you had; customize your resume to specific job positions, write a dynamite cover letter; and much more.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Outstanding Resource
Ms. Lefkowitz has produced an outstanding guide that is tailored specifically to administrative people. Other resume books provide the basics, but the formulas and the cookie cutter molds just don’t seem to lend themselves to admin careers. Her book is a godsend for professional secretaries. Each of the chapters goes through the steps for translating the myriad of everyday tasks into clear, concise, and impressive bullet items. Her section on writing the qualifications statement is particularly helpful. She breaks it down into parts and shows the reader how to tailor it to each job posting. The examples at the end provide different examples on how to word things as well as ideas for formating and layouts (something that is important for a secretary to demonstrate some talent at doing). Using her instructions and those examples, it’s easy to put together a resume that gets results! I’ve had nothing but compliments (and interviews) after using this book.
5 Stars The Best!
I paid 20 cents for this book online and I can’t believe how valuable this book really is. I never realized how poorly my resume was untill I read this book. It has all types of scenarios in it such as resume styles for new grads, career changers, job hoppers, etc.
I followed the styles in this book and have had 3 interview requests already in just 2 weeks! It boggles me that the cheapest book I bought was the biggest return for me!
You will not be disappointed by this book. Yes, it was printed in 1997, but all you have to do is change a few of the words (I think they refer to Word Perfect, just change to Microsoft Office 2003). Fantastic Book!
3 Stars Great Tips - if you can translate examples with today’s equivalent
I found this book helpful for those administrative assistants that are new or fairly new to the field. There are great tips for layout if you have had an extended break in working, and ways to present experience (or lack of experience) and still get your foot in the door for an interview. The resumes presented were, in my opinion, elemental, which is why I would recommend this book for those starting out in the administrative field. Also, some of the examples used will obviously need to be tailored to your situation. There are numerous references to typewriters and wpm, stenographers, etc, that date the book, and you will need to swap this out with what you currently do in your job. (While I may not be average, I personally have not touched a typewriter in my work environment for the last 6 years). There were some great before and after examples of resumes.
However, I am an experienced administrative assistant performs the usual travel arrangements, expenses, and calendaring, and I also actively seek out projects to pursue. My goal in purchasing this book was to show the value of those extra projects on my resume. If this is your intent as well, I would not recommend this book. I also bought Resume Magic: Trade Secrets of a Professional Resume Writer at the same time, and have found it to be much more useful in translating my current tasks into marketable skills, as it is much more robust.
5 Stars the best resume book ever!
the book was damn easy to use, and It helped me get the job I was looking for! Id recoment it to anyone who is seriously interested in upgrading their resume writting skills
5 Stars This book is an excellent tool to use to advance your career
This book is excellent! It has really showed me how to make my resume more marketable, and prepare me for a better career. I have passed this book on to my family, and co-workers.
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