Essential Managers: Writing Your Resume
At last, a guide to résumé writing whose every page is as quickly scannable as they say a good résumé should be. In 72  brightly designed pages, this pocket-size career helper walks you through the  entire résumé writing (or rewriting!) process, from determining  your overall career objectives and strategy and targeting your  résumé to specific fields or employers to drafting and refining  your résumé's content, selling your experience, deciding on the  overall format and look, and adapting your résumé for a career  change, a midcareer job move, or a return to the job market after an absence.  Throughout, loads of résumé samples, examples, checklists, and  flow charts help you piece it all together, including tips on replying to job  advertisements, canvassing employers, using the Internet, keeping up your job  search, and analyzing your own career profile.It's worth mentioning that the  book is also part of reference publisher Dorling Kindersley's Essential Managers  series--20 itty-bitty li'l books on business and career topics ranging from  communication, leadership, and decision making to the management of time,  budgets, change, meetings, people, projects, and teams. Combining theFor  Dummiesbook series's talent for breaking down a lot of information into  bite-size bits and sidebars with Dorling Kindersley's signature design style of  crisp, classy graphics on a gleaming white backdrop, they don't represent the  cutting edge of business thinking and they don't necessarily reflect any unique individual perspective. Instead, it's as though someone collated the best  general thinking on these 20 topics and rolled them out into 72 brightly designed and easy-to-read pages, studded along the way with boxed tips, color  shots of a multiracial cast of "coworkers" animatedly hashing through the  workplace issues of the day, and a self-test of one's skills in the topic at  hand on the last few pages of each volume. Again, they're not for anyone looking  for more in-depth or focused help on any of the subjects they cover, but they're  perfect as a quickie general-interest reference... and let's face it, they're so  cute and look so smart in a neat little stack or row that you'll probably want  to buy a whole bunch to give to your entire staff or department.--Timothy  Murphy