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In today’s global economic recession, the IT industry was hit hard and the IT job market is getting tough than ever. Everyday more and more unlucky pros are forced to return to the job market. The only thing they can do is to write and send out their resumes, then wait and expect a surprising response. But in such a intensive competition, many general rules in resume writing do not work well or not at all. To make your resume sell in such a difficult time, you need a different guide...
Here comes our core product, - The Ultimate IT Resume Guide to overcome the difficulty and beat the job market. For everyone in IT, either out of job or still working, The Ultimate IT Resume Guide is the key to job security and career success.
The Ultimate IT Resume Guide reveals top secrets about how to pack your resume with magic winning power to land a new and better job in IT every time you want and need to work. This book is not a general purpose resume book; it also goes far beyond an industry specific resume writing guide. While the author of this book only lightly cover basic resume writing techniques such as styles and formats, tremendous efforts had been put into this book in order to teach you how to build resume contents for IT. Through this book you'll master the approach to building your resume content that can make you a hot commodity in IT job market.
Rather than giving you generic resume info, this book offers page after page tactics, tips, strategies, tricks, approaches, easy-to-follow guidelines, easy-to-catch concepts, easy-to-understand rules, and easy-to-copy resume parts, all of which are designed to help you build content-rich, powerful resume and showcase your experience, skills, knowledge, qualifications, abilities, commitments, dedication, etc. to the extreme level even though you are just an ordinary IT Joe. That really makes difference.
The bottom line is, no matter how tough the job market is, even if you have only very limited experience, this guild can help you get interviews and get hired for your dream job, while you are hearing endless layoff news and seeing more people wait in lines claiming unemployment benefit. You deserve a lot more and your dreams can be fulfilled!
Here’s a sneak peak at the Table of Contents…
The Ultimate IT Resume Guide (Version 3a)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Introduction 6
1.1 Not another Resume
Book 6
1.2 What Makes This Book Unique 7
1.3 What You
Get from This Book 8
1.4 Is This Book for You? 9
2 The
Best IT Resume Anatomy 11
2.1 Header 11
2.2 Power
Statement 11
2.3 Summary 12
2.4 Certifications 12
2.5 Experience 13
2.6 Technical
Skills 14
2.7 Education and Training 14
2.8 Other
Optional Sections 15
3 High-Impact IT Resume by
Example 16
3.1 Resume Sample 16
3.2 What Makes
High-Impact IT Resume 20
4 IT Resume Format 21
4.1 How
Many Pages? 21
4.2 About
Objective 22
4.3 Chronological vs.
Functional 22
4.4 Format Tips 22
4.5 Long Resume
Alternatives 23
4.6 Format Is Only Idea 23
5 Resume
Header: Strategic Self-Entitlement 24
5.1 Strategic
Self-Entitlement 24
5.2 Tapping the Hypnotic
Power 25
5.3 Examples of Strategic
Self-Entitlement 25
6 Craft Power
Statement 28
6.1 Replacing Objective by Power
Statement 28
6.2 Power Statement Examples 29
7 How to
Summarize Qualifications 31
7.1 The Assembly of Qualification
Statements 31
7.2 Summarizing Technical
Qualifications 32
7.3 Non-Technical Qualifications and Soft
Skills 33
8 Apprise Your Experience by Action
Verbs 35
8.1 Software Development Action
Verbs 35
8.2 System and Database Administration Action
Verbs 36
8.3 High Level Action Verbs 37
8.4 Result
Oriented Action Verbs 38
8.5 Describing Experience with Non-Action
Words 38
9 Enhance IT Resume by Quantitative
Facts 39
9.1 Examples of Using Numbers in
Resume 39
9.2 Cautions of Using Numbers 42
10 Make
Your Credentials
Sell 44
10.1 Education 44
10.2 Certifications 45
10.3 Training 50
10.4 Professional
Activities 51
10.5 More Credentials 52
11 How to
Showcase IT Skills 54
11.1 The Secret 54
11.2 The
Rule 55
11.3 The Showcase 55
12 Tap Value-Added Buzz
Words 57
12.1 Who Wants Buzz Words 57
12.2 Functional
Buzz Word Examples 57
12.3 Technical Buzz Word
Examples 59
12.4 How to Play Buzz Words in
Resume 61
13 Let Your Achievements
Shine 63
13.1 Skills, Experience, and
Achievements 63
13.2 Achievements Manifest
Value 64
13.3 Achievement Summary
Statement 65
14 Top-Notch Resume without IT
Experience 68
14.1 Obtaining Skills 68
14.2 Self-Made
Experience 69
14.3 Create a Solid Resume 70
15 Insight
of IT Resume Cheating 72
15.1 The Opportunities of Resume
Cheating 72
15.2 The Risks of Resume
Cheating 73
15.3 The Alternatives of Resume
Cheating 74
16 Distribute Your IT Resume
Effectively 76
16.1 Go Online 76
16.2 Go Second
Hand 77
16.3 Go Local 78
16.4 Go
Network 78
17 Two Sure Ways to Job Offer 81
17.1 It is
a Numbers Game 81
17.2 Persistence Pays 82
18 Resume
Strategies in Economic Downturn 83
18.1 Resume Content
Strategy 83
18.2 Resume Target Strategy 84
18.3 Be the
Outsource 85
18.4 Return to Kingdom 86
18.5 Enter Safe
Haven 86
19 Programmer
Resume 89
19.1 Guidelines 89
19.2 Resume
Sample 89
20 Software Engineer
Resume 92
20.1 Guidelines 92
20.2 Resume
Sample 92
21 Software Architect
Resume 95
21.1 Guidelines 95
21.2 Resume
Sample 95
22 Web Developer
Resume 98
22.1 Guidelines 98
22.2 Resume
Sample 99
23 Database Administrator
Resume 102
23.1 Guidelines 102
23.2 Resume
Sample 102
24 Network Administrator
Resume 106
24.1 Guidelines 106
24.2 Sample
Resumes 107
25 IT Consultant
Resume 110
25.1 Guidelines 110
25.2 Resume
Sample 110
26 Enterprise Software Specialist
Resume 114
26.1 Guidelines 114
26.2 Resume
Sample 114
27 IT Project Manager
Resume 118
27.1 Guidelines 118
27.2 Resume
Sample 118
28 IT Management
Resume 121
28.1 Guidelines 121
28.2 Resume
Sample 121
29 Project Proposal
Resume 124
29.1 Guidelines 124
29.2 Resume
Sample 125
Don't Just SIT There! 130
What Do You
Think? 131