Creating a Resume - 3 Excellent Starting Points ANYONE Can Use

Yippee! Just got word that one of my Ezine Articles just got published. This is a pretty good one, called:

"Creating a Resume - 3 Excellent Starting Points ANYONE Can Use."

Please hop over and read it - it's a lot longer than my little blog entries, but it's got some great stuff in it!

Again, that link: Creating a Resume - 3 Excellent Starting Points ANYONE Can Use.

I love it when they publish my stuff. Definitely good for the ego! :)

CreatingaResume.info is also available for you - they've even got a nice little free pdf report on cover letters. Quite good!

And, if you want VERY good info on cover letter writing, visit www.CoverLetterWriting.net

Writing a Resume? Action...Action...We Want Action!

Ok. We're in agreement that you're writing a resume. "Writing" means "words." When you begin writing your resume - and if you really want it to be an effective resume, you need action words.

As you're getting your pencils sharpened, and your skills and accomplishments lined up, begin thinking of them in terms of "action"words and keywords. Rather than run an exhaustive list here, I'm handing you over to a nice site that has a terrific listing available here = > Resume Keywords.

Obviously you won't use most of these! But, as you look at the list, you'll begin to see a few that sound good. You'll say, "Advocated! Yes! That's exactly what I did at ABC Agency!" and you'll jot it down. Stuff like that.

So, get moving on thinking in terms of action words - no namby-pamby passive words. For example, instead of "I was involved with selling and wound up selling about 10,250 widgets last year..." you would say:

"Sold 10,000+ widgets in 2008."

Ok, got the idea? Practice that!

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Effective Resume Writing Help is Here! Welcome!

Welcome to my Effective Resume Writing Help blog!

Over the course of the next few days and weeks, I hope to give you all some good, rock-solid and effective resume writing help.

I also hope to be able to steer you to other resources that I have found to be helpful as well. One of the reasons I'm also posting information here at the Blogger platform is that I can move text around, and emphasize certain points a little easier than I can in some of my other writings.

For today, I just want to give you a quick point to ponder about resumes. Although this is no mystery, it appears that people have the misconception that the purpose of a resume is to get them a job.

This is incorrect, so we need to collectively get this notion out of our minds!

If you've ever read any of my articles or Squidoo lenses, you'll probably hear me say this more than once. But it bears repeating:

The purpose of your resume is to get you an interview.

That's it! Doesn't that make you feel better already!?

I've got a lot of preparation to do on this blog, so I'll leave you with a link to one of my Squidoo lenses - Creating a Resume - in case you have a hankering to see what I've been up to, along with the link to one of my favorite resume development tools that you can find over at Creating a Resume.info!