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Table of Contents
The following articles and reference guides are designed to help you in your job search efforts.
Creating Winning Resumes
- Résumé information worksheet
- Writing descriptive skill statements
- Action word list
- Rules for effective résumés
- Résumé checklist
- Helpful résumé section headings
- Sample chronological résumé 1
- Sample chronological resume 2
- Sample functional résumé
- Sample electronic résumé
- Résumé blunders that cost job seekers dearly
- Five things your resume won't do for you
- Seven ways to ruin your resume
Writing Effective Job Search Letters
Job Interviewing Preparation & Success
- The art of successful interviewing
- 50 questions employers ask
- How to address illegal interview questions
- Advice on answering illegal interview questions
- Questions to ask employers
- Phone interviews just as important as in person
- Telephone job interview preparation
- Tips for telephone interviews
- Types of interviews
- Ten Rules for Interview Success
- Dressing for interview success
- The importance of following up
Job Search Tools & Strategies
- Local regional and national job search websites
- Interviewing yourself into a career
- Tips to help job seekers stay on track
- Volunteering will save your career, or lead to a new one
- 21 mistakes people make on linkedin
- Why job seekers get no response
- How to successfully navigate a job fair
- Three signs you're a career complainer
- Websites for occupational information
- Websites for job seekers with disabilities
- The Riley Guide