Gallery Of Best Resumes For People Without A Four-year Degree Third Edition

Hundreds of thousands of people know David F. Noble, Ph.D., as the author of the resume book that helped them find jobs. His many best-selling books include Gallery of Best Resumes and Gallery of Best Cover Letters. He has more than 20 years of experience teaching English, writing, American Literature, business editing at several universities. He currently teaches English at the University of Indianapolis. He is frequently call on by professional resume writers' associations to write and present on the mechanics of resume writing. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

I had been searching for a new job and wanting to move out to California to be closer to my family but I wasnt getting any sort of responses from the resumes I sent out, not even rejection letters. I got this book and read through it, followed the advice on the resumes and the cover letters, and had someone I know that has a business look over my resume and tell me what he thought. He told it me it was an outstanding resume and that he had a position opening at his company in March 2006 but he was almost 100% with a resume like that I would have a job before then. I also posted my resume on an online job finder. I applied for jobs in California even though I am 2,000 miles away and for the first time in almost 3 years I least I got rejection letters and also I got an employer wanting an interview even though I was obviously not in California. This book really works! Get it and at least try it out, what have you got to lose a few bucks. I couldn't believe some of the salaries of jobs I was being considered for.

This book is chock full of resumes and it's great that that is all there is, not a lot of chatter about them, just one resume after another. Just what you are looking for. That said, it is a nice selection of resumes in lots of different industries (admin, nurse, customer service, cooks, teachers) a lot of blue collar jobs. Yay! The only problems that annoyed me was that MANY were 2 page resume examples. The book is a bit dated in that respect because I don't think head hunters want to read a lot of 2 page resumes. I know that if everything you have done is relevant to the new job, sure, but most of the time you can scale it back.

Some of those I couldn't relate to and couldn't pick, it was irritating. I'd rather have more 1 page resumes. Overall, it's a good book because you can just flip through and find one that you like and write one just like it. I also suggest the Gallery of Best Cover Letters, 4th Ed. Really great for wording help.

I love these Gallery books. They are a great student resource for inspiration on content, style, organization of a resume. I actually used a similar book to write my own resume.