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 If you're looking for resume help we've got some good news - we've got a lot of good information that can help you with your resume. In fact, we've been assembling information on resume writing for over four years now.
Summarizing our Resume Help
So it's about time to summarize all of the help we can provide you with when it comes to resumes. In fact, we've got over 50 articles that cover the basics of resume writing and cover letters. Over the next several paragraphs we are going to explain the specific help we can offer and the links on our website to that information.
Help Choosing the Type of Resume
This first series of articles can help you choose the best resume format to use based on your prior work experience and job hunting strategy:
- Functional Resume - this kind of resume emphasizes your work experience and the skills you have acquired over your career. It's a good format for those that don't have a lot of experience or have timeline gaps in their careers that they'd rather not highlight.
- Chronological Resume - this is the format that most of us grew up on. It lists your work history in reverse chronological order. If you have a lot of experience and your career progression makes a lot of sense, this is a good format to use.
- Combination Resume - this takes the best attributes from both of the above two types of resumes and puts it all together in one place. The combination resume is a two part resume where part one is a functional format and part two is a chronological listing. This is probably the most marketable resume you can use.
That last sentence is an important one because you should view your resume as a marketing tool for your skills. The full articles each go into more detail on the pros and cons of each resume style and that should help you decide which resume to choose based on your individual career situation.
Help Getting your Resume Written
A lot of us need help getting started writing our resumes; sometimes it is referred to as writer's block. If you've been having trouble getting started writing your resume we think we can help there too because we've put together a series of articles that can help get you writing quickly:
- In our article Resume Builder, we tell you how to use the power of your personal computer to help write your resume. Even if you don't currently own a word processing application, we tell you how to get a high quality program for free.
- Our article Resume Outline will help give you the basic feel for the various sections of a resume and gives you explanations of the information contained in each section. Each of our articles on the three types of resumes also helps you to understand the kind of information to include and gives you examples for each format.
Help with Resume Terms or Definitions
If you'd like to drill down deeper into each section of a resume, we've recently completed our career dictionary that includes every definition we could come up with that relates to resumes and resume writing. These are not the simple definitions you will find on other websites, ours will give you the resume help you need by providing in-depth explanations and lots of examples.
The best place to start is with our definition of resume format, which provides explanations and links to the seven sections commonly found on a resume.
Resume Wording
We can also help you with choosing the right words to include in your resume. In our article on Resume Power Words we've got a listing of over 300 words that can help your resume to have a more positive impact on the reader.
Help Getting your Resume Noticed
After you've got your resume in good shape, our article Resume Posting Service will help you to figure out which type of resume distribution service might be the best given your specific job hunting strategy. Whether it is resume posting or resume blasting we explain the help each service can provide if you're looking for a job.
Help with Cover Letters
Finally, if you're looking for help with resume cover letters, we've got a lot of information on that topic too. A good starting place is our publication on How to Write a Cover Letter. And if you're looking for help with cover letter samples, the following two publications provide you with plenty of examples of what a good cover letter look like:
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