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Table of Contents

Brilliant features

Each chapter of this book is designed to provide you with an inspirational idea that you can read quickly and put into practice right away.

Throughout youll find four features that will help you get right to the heart of the idea:

Try another idea If this idea looks like a life-changer then theres no time to lose. Try another idea will point you straight to a related tip to expand and enhance the first.

Heres an idea for you Give it a tryright here, right nowand get an idea of how well youre doing so far.

Defining ideas Words of wisdom from masters and mistresses of the art, plus some interesting hangers-on.

How did it go? If at first you do succeed try to hide your amazement. If, on the other hand, you dont this is where youll find a Q and A that highlights common problems and how to get over them.

Introduction

Question: Whos more likely to be invited to an interview? An outstanding performer with an average resum or an average performer with an outstanding resum?

When youre going for a new job, you may well be in competition with hundreds of other people. Its therefore vital for your resum to distinguish itself from the rest of the pack.

This is harder than it sounds. Ive read literally tens of thousands of resums in my time and most of them were mind-numbingly, teeth-grindingly dull. The vast majority of resums in circulation today make ditchwater seem comparatively interesting and redefine watching paint dry as an extreme sport for adrenaline junkies.

Its a curious thing, but when it comes to describing ourselves on paper, perfectly competent and interesting people with excellent career track records somehow manage to portray themselves as bland nonentities. To put it politely, most people have uncompelling resums. Only a handful of us have figured out that a resum is a one-to-one marketing document, not a desiccated litany of turgid facts. But lets face it, whichever of the two camps we fall into, theres room for improvement.

And thats where this book comes in. Look at this book as a series of prods and prompts that add up to a comprehensive resum health check. Some of the 52 ideas are action-oriented. Others are more reflective. All are designed to get you thinking about how you can improve the positive impact of your resum.

Once youve found the right job opportunity, and sent in your immaculately prepared resum, all thats left to land the working life of your dreams is to win at the interview. The art of successful interviews includes the art of interesting and free-flowing conversation. Its also about techniquetechniques for interviewing and techniques for being interviewed. Heres how to bone up on great answers to the interviewers questions, and to make sure you understand exactly what theyre looking for.

Despite scientific advances in hiring techniques such as assessment centers and psychometric testing (if you dont know now, youll know what they are when youve read the relevant chapters), the interview remains the main way that managers decide which people they invite to work for them. Its an interesting struggle, the one between interviewee and interviewer, in that both sides can win. The hiring company can get the right person and the candidate can get a job that they are right for and that is right for them.

But its competitive, of course. In most interview situations there are other people competing for the same job. Beating them off means thinking about and rehearsing good answers to the most popular questions thatll be thrown at you. This book covers all the standard questions youre likely to be asked and suggests prize-winning answers. And then it does a bit more.

Well talk about being scrupulously honest, but well also show you how to give that honesty the best possible spin. Well look at exploiting your strengths and putting your weaknesses into a context where not only do they not matter, but by the end of the interview they may very well have morphed into strengths. After all, though everyone wants a win/win result, the point of going to an interview is to be offered the job. So, yes, you need to be open so that they see the real you; but, yes, you need a bit of guile as well to put you out in front as the candidate with what it really takes.

High-Impact Resums

Dream a little dream

High-impact resums reflect precisely what youre looking to achieve from your career. So, before putting pen to paper, consider what you want from the work you do.

As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? Moreover, how do you presently feel about your career? Is it moving along nicely? Going well but not well enough? Stalled?

Here are twelve questions that are designed to help you get a handle on the state of your career. Dont feel you have to answer each question in painstaking detail; simply go for those that seem the most relevant or intriguing.

1. In what elements of your career have you been most successful? And least successful?

2. What aspects of your career have you enjoyed the most? And the least?

3. More specifically, what has been the most satisfying role you have undertaken to date?

Heres an idea for you...

Make a list of the constraints affecting your career choices over the next few years. These may include financial issues, qualifications, where you live and work, your ability to relocate, and so on. Make a brief note of how important each constraint is.

With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, are there any points in your career or life where you would have made a different choice or decision?

How do you feel when you get up to go to work in the morning?

What aspects of your current job do you enjoy the most? And the least?

Do you enjoy working with others?

How are you regarded by the people you work with?

Do subordinates, peers, and senior managers hold different views about you? If so, what conclusions can you draw from this?

Have you had a new boss recently, say, in the last two years? If so, what impact has this had on the way you feel?

How ambitious are you these days?

What do you want out of the work you do? Are you getting it?

Try another idea...

Got all you need to start putting a resum together? Take a look at IDEA 3,

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