The Overnight Resume, 3rd Edition
  • Published: 1 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9781580080910
  • Imprint: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $37.99

The Overnight Resume, 3rd Edition

The Fastest Way to Your Next Job

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A step-by-step approach to resume writing for all career stages and most educational backgrounds that shows job seekers how to develop and craft a focused, successful resume in one sitting.

Call from a headhunter? Layoffs getting a little too close for comfort? Hear about a great new internal opportunity? Getting out of the military? Or just frustrated and wonder if you could do better someplace else?
 
This is the definitive guide to getting you on the market fast.
 
The third edition of The Overnight Resume has been completely revised and updated for everyone—from entry level* to the executive suite—who is serious about getting an interview and landing a job.
 
*Tip #1: Never use the term “entry level” in any resume. For hundreds more tips that suit your particular case, just look inside.
 
Information you’ll find nowhere else includes:
 
• How to beat other jobseekers at 1,000-to-1 odds.
 
• How to launch a full-scale job search within 24 hours.
 
• How to access the hidden job market where the best jobs are.
 
• What returning parents and returning prisoners have in common.
 
• How to beat resume-sorting software!
 
• Online resumes, HTML, scannable, and portfolio versions.
 
• Differences between East Coast and West Coast resume styles.
 
• How to look like a local, from anywhere in the country!
  • Published: 1 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9781580080910
  • Imprint: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $37.99
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About the author

Donald Asher

DONALD ASHER is one of America's premiere career consultants and is the author of The Overnight Résumé, Cool Colleges, Graduate Admissions Essays, and Who Gets Promoted, Who Doesn't, and Why. He speaks at over 100 colleges and universities every year.

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Also by Donald Asher

Graduate Admissions Essays, Fifth Edition
Who Gets Promoted, Who Doesn't, and Why, Second Edition
Graduate Admissions Essays, Fourth Edition
Cracking The Hidden Job Market
How to Get Any Job, Second Edition
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Praise for The Overnight Resume, 3rd Edition

"Beautifully written, a joy to read. Walks you right through the nuts and bolts of constructing a great resume." --Virginia Mak, career counselor, Stanford University

"This guide is a fabulous marriage of street smarts and e-search smarts." --Mary-Ellen Mort, Jobsmart.org

Asher's most recent title, Who Gets Promoted, Who Doesn't, and Why (2007) was called the "Breakthrough business book of the year" by national career columnist Joyce Lain Kennedy.