Joyce Lain-Kennedy – författare

A high quality CV is essential for anyone who wants to get ahead, especially in today’s competitive job market. This fully updated guide shows readers how to create a brilliant CV that’ll get them noticed – and the job they deserve. With dozens of useful sample CVs from a diverse range of industries and age groups, plus advice on structure, language and classic CV mistakes that could be holding them back, this book is the easiest way to a CV tune-up, and a dream job. The new and updated CVs For Dummies 2nd Edition contains: Information on bouncing back from redundancyTips on looking for work in a hostile job marketExtended information on the graduate recruitment processA question and answer section on online application formsA brand new chapter on cover lettersCVs For Dummies 2nd Edition covers:Part I: Pitching Your CVs in a Fierce Marketplace Chapter 1: The Versatile CV Is So Five Minutes AgoChapter 2: New Quick Ways to Find the Right JobsChapter 3: Make Your CV Stand Out Among the Web giantsChapter 4: Familiar Search Tools Making a StancePart II: The Rise and Reign of the Powerful CV Chapter 5: Creating Your Best CVChapter 6: Flowing Contents vs. Jarring DetailChapter 7: Words That Always Make the MarkChapter 8: Catch The Eye In Three Seconds With DesignChapter 9: CVs for Your Life’s Changing PhasesChapter 10: The Graduate vs. the Corporate WorldChapter 11: The Bare Essentials: That Crucial Cover LetterPart III: Bringing It All Together Chapter 12: A Sampling of Targeted CVs by Industry and Career Field Chapter 13: A Sampling of Targeted CVs  by Experience Level and AgeChapter 14: A Sampling of Targeted CVs  for Special CircumstancesChapter 15: A Sampling of Extreme CV MakeoversChapter 16: Successful Solutions to CV ProblemsPart IV: Launching Your CV Into Orbit Chapter 17: References Authenticate Your CVChapter 18: Follow-up on Launch and Touch downChapter 19: Almost Got the Interview Date? Prepare YourselfPart V: The Part of Tens Chapter 20: Ten Ways to Prove Your ClaimsChapter 21: Ten Ways to Improve Your CVChapter 22: Ten Tips on Choosing Professional CV HelpChapter 23: Ten Things that Annoy RecruitersChapter 24: Your Ten-Point CV Checklist

New-style job messages that get you in the door and on your way up From sparkling cover letters to six-word bios, a fresh bevy of job search letters has grown powerfully useful for successful career communications. Job Search Letters For Dummies delivers the quality of New Era know-how you need right now to land good jobs and thrive. Whether you’re a long-time professional or a recent college graduate — or somewhere in between — Job Search Letters For Dummies has you covered. Job Search Letters For Dummies covers the gamut of leading-edge topics, including effective strategies for internal career communications on topics such as raises, promotions, and position changes; rules for communicating professionally with texts and networking on social media platforms such as twitter and LinkedIn; fresh and updated communication phrases to voice accomplishments and make job-fit statements; post-interview etiquette and letters such as thank-yous, "hire me" reinforcement notes, interest revival queries; and much more. Get hired with 40 types of job lettersCreate short messages for a smartphone worldNetwork on social media sitesModel best letters more than 200 pro samplesWhether you’re a long-time professional or a recent college graduate — or somewhere in between — Job Search Letters For Dummies has you covered. A note to job seekers from nationally syndicated careers columnist and author or Job Search Letters For Dummies, Joyce Lain Kennedy:Welcome aboard, job seekers! Thanks for checking out this first guide to communications-supported job search and career growth in relentlessly changing technological times.The right messaging — what you say, why you say it, and when you say it — is as important today to your employment goals as it has been at any time since Leonardo da Vinci wrote the first professional resume in 1482.Consider recent job–finding history: In 1986 fax machines and postal mail were the most popular ways to send resumes and cover letters.In the 1990s the Internet boom kicked in with new tools to connect jobs and people: e-mail, websites, cell phones, mailing lists, and online bulletin boards.In the 21st century the double-time march of recruiting technology skyrocketed, building a techno-swamp populated with endless ideas of how to connect work and people through smartphones, wonder tablets, apps, and social media for virtual networking.You’re competing in a new world of work out there. If your job search is treading water — or even drowning— there’s a better way. Make a splash! Engage hiring authorities through a communications-centered campaign with smart content.