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Get a Great Job When You Don’t Have a Job

Your Fearless Résumé, as a whole, can be seen as the answers to
five simple questions that the employer wants to ask about you.
They are

1. Who are you?
2. What do you want?
3. Tell me about yourself.
4. What can you do, and where and how have you done it?
What was the result of your actions?
5. Where and how were you trained or educated?

That’s it. Whether you’re a carpenter, a nurse, or the vice presi-
dent of a company, these five questions remain basically the same.

Résumé Blocks

Interestingly, in answering these five questions, there are also five
mandatory sections of a Fearless Résumé (we’ll refer to them as
blocks). Here are the basic blocks of the résumé. They correspond
exactly to the order of the questions just given.
1. The contact block (Who are you?)
2. The objective block (What do you want?)
3. The summary block (Tell me about yourself—
your power proposition)
4. The employment history block (What can you do? Where
have you done it? What were the results?—
your Q statements)
5. The education and training block (Where were you
educated?)
Résumés almost always start with block 1 (the contact block) and
descend in order down the page to block 5 (the education and
training block). That’s it. It makes sense, doesn’t it?

Order of Résumé Sections

The following is a working diagram of the order of each part of
your Fearless Résumé, plus a guideline about the question each
section answers.

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