CHAPTER 9

Write a Better Resume Now

After completing chapters 5 through 8, you are ready to put together a “better” resume. By better, I mean one that is more carefully crafted than those you have already prepared, based on Part 1.

This chapter helps you pull together what you have learned and create an effective resume. It also expands on the tips in Part 1 on how to design, produce, and use your resume to best effect.

This chapter assumes that you have read and completed the activities in Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4. It also assumes that you finished a basic resume as outlined in those chapters and started using it right away while you worked on creating a “better” resume as time permitted.

If that information is not fresh in your mind, what follows won’t make much sense because it is supplemental to the information presented in the first four chapters. And if you’ve worked through chapters 5 through 8, the results from that material will help you work through this chapter more easily.