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

Writing a résumé can really be scary! After all, unless all you have
to do is fill out an application to get an interview, writing a
résumé is just about the only way you have to get your foot in
the door.

• Up until now, many doors may have been closed to you.
You may not even have had the chance to go to an
interview yet. You may be getting some interviews, but
not the ones you really want. You may love your résumé
or hate your résumé or not even have one, but those
doors seem to be shut tighter and tighter. Not for long.

The guide you’re holding is not a book about proper grammar or
about making your résumé look “fancy” and expensive. Yes,
those things may be nice, but we’re going to take it just one step
further.

A Strategic Approach to
Writing Résumés

Fearless Résumés presents you with a tested and unbeatable strategy,
proven time after time, to get people just like you the job offers
you’re dreaming of and working so hard to get.
Having personally tested the Fearless Résumés strategy on
more than 15,000 clients since 1989, I’m here to take their suc-
cesses and pass these job-seeking secrets on to you. You’ll find
this strategy for writing a résumé as simple, powerful, and effec-
tive as it was for those job seekers.

• I didn’t say it would be easy, but I will tell you that
writing your résumé will be far simpler than you ever
imagined it could be.

Why?
Because I’ve boiled down what makes a résumé work to a few
straightforward but extremely potent ideas that anyone, whether
a student, at entry level, or an executive, can use.
In the few hours you spend reading this section and doing
the concrete and practical exercises it contains, you’re going to

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