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Chapter 3

Winning Resume

Wisdom

In This Chapter

➤ Designing a resume that creates the future you want
➤ Using past successes for future rewards

➤ Keeping secrets from the employer
➤ Making your resume quick and inviting to read
➤ To lie or not to lie

Writing the perfect resume takes a little time and concentration, but when you finish it,
you’ll feel like a million bucks—or as if you could make a million bucks!
Trust me, time spent working on a resume is time well spent. I’ve seen lots of people walk
away with finished resumes, saying they never knew they could look so good on paper;
they never thought their work history could appear so impressive; or they never thought
they could look qualified for something they’d never done in the past.
A few principles lie behind the kind of job-winning resume I’m talking about. This chapter
discusses key concepts that will not only provide you with resume wisdom; they’ll also
solve every resume problem you’ll encounter.

The Commandments
Before you boot up your computer (or get your ballpoint pen and paper if you’re sitting at
your kitchen table), I want to impart a few tricks that even most professional resume writ-
ers don’t know. (Your competition surely doesn’t!) These concepts can make the difference
between a boring resume that just sits on a manager’s desk (or, even worse, gets thrown
away) and one that demands, “Read me, read me! Call me, call me!” These resume tips are
so important I’ve dubbed them The Resume Commandments.