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| Plan to Succeed | |
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| Winning Resume Wisdom | |
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| The Commandments | |
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| Thou Shalt Not Write About Your Past | |
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| Thou Shalt Not Confess | |
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| Shooting Yourself in the Foot | |
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| Get Your Priorities Straight | |
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| Drop Irrelevant Info | |
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| Understate Too Much Experience | |
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| Thou Shalt Not Write Job Descriptions | |
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| Thou Shalt Not Write About Stuff You Don't Want to Do | |
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| Thou Shalt Say Less Rather Than More | |
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| The Eight-Second Test | |
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| Goody Two-Pages | |
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| Thou Shalt Not Write in Paragraphs | |
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| Thou Shalt Not Lie | |
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| Chronologically Speaking | |
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| Highlighting Your History | |
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| The Horizontal Slide | |
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| Vertical Climb | |
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| A Strong Start | |
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| Getting Labeled | |
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| Background Check | |
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| Conservative Line | |
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| Get It Together | |
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| Get Functional | |
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| The Times Are a Changin' | |
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| The Career Changer's Dream | |
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| Skills Up Front and Center | |
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| Reentry with Force | |
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| Long, Long Ago | |
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| Best Foot Forward | |
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| Into the Real World | |
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| Fill in the Gap | |
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| Decisions, Decisions! | |
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| Six Steps to a Perfect Resume | |
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| Step One: Name That Resume | |
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| Putting Things in Place | |
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| What's in a Name? | |
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| Giving a Clear Signal | |
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| Keep 'Em Guessing | |
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| Showing Off Credentials | |
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| Home Sweet Home | |
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| I've Got Your Number | |
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| E-Mail Giveaway | |
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| Hot URLs | |
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| Step Two: Ask for What You Want ... You Just Might Get It | |
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| It's All Marketing | |
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| Multiple Choice | |
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| The Weight of a Job Objective | |
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| Wording with an Objective | |
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| Straight as an Arrow | |
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| Spreading Your Umbrella | |
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| Breaking the Rules | |
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| Titles That Talk Big | |
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| Heading Within a Heading | |
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| Step Three: Knock 'Em Off Their Feet | |
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| Right from the Start | |
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| Say It with Style | |
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| Keeping Up with the Fast Trackers | |
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| On the Lines of a Career Changer | |
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| Go Figure | |
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| Your Mini-Resume | |
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| Step Four: Make History | |
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| Writing History | |
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| Fight Age Discrimination | |
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| Putting Your Younger Foot Forward | |
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| Older Is Better | |
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| Down and Dirty Formula | |
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| Unsightly Unemployment Blemishes | |
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| Years Go Solo | |
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| Filling in the Gaps | |
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| Character That Counts | |
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| The Gapless Resume | |
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| Promoting Your Promotions | |
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| Grass Underfoot | |
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| Straight Up | |
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| Zipping Along | |
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| The Happy Job Hopper | |
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| Formatting Tricks | |
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| Step Five: Show 'Em You're an Achiever! | |
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| Chronologically Clear | |
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| Functionally Sound | |
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| Functional Help | |
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| One Plus One Is Enough | |
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| Skills for Sale | |
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| Dynamite Achievements | |
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| Who's Your Audience? | |
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| Downplay Differences | |
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| Keep It Relevant | |
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| First Things First | |
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| Lights, Camera, Action Verbs! | |
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| How'd the Other Guys Say It? | |
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| Brainstorming | |
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| Warning! Functional Resume Ahead | |
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| Step Six: Give Yourself Credit for Education and More | |
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| Finish Lines | |
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| Education 101 | |
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| What If? | |
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| Hot College Degrees | |
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| Getting Credit for Your Pending Degree | |
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| Interpreting Degree Equivalents | |
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| Don't Have a Degree? | |
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| Yahoo! Just Got My High School Diploma | |
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| The Not-So-New High School Diploma | |
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| The Last Word | |
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| Volunteerism That Pays Off | |
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| Professional Schmoozer | |
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| Getting Published | |
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| Standing Up for Your Award | |
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| Key Point: Your Computer Skills | |
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| Making a Hobby of It | |
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| Anything Missing? | |
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| What's Better Left Unsaid | |
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| Money Talk | |
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| Referring to References | |
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| Forget the Personal Stuff | |
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| So You Need a Special Resume | |
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| The Big Winner: An Achievement Resume | |
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| This Resume Packs a Punch! | |
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| Asking the Right Question | |
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| Oooh, You're Going to Look Great! | |
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| The Perfect One-Pager | |
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| Quality vs. Quantity | |
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| Professional Titles Count | |
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| Be a Celebrity | |
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| Number One in Sales | |
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| It's Your Turn to Shine | |
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| A Chronological Hybrid That Adds Up | |
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| It's Got Structure | |
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| Are You the Hybrid Type? | |
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| Climbing Higher | |
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| Variations on a Theme | |
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| The Hidden Functional Message | |
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| Standing Still | |
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| Putting Words on Paper | |
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| A Functional Hybrid That Makes Sense | |
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| The Skillful Hybrid | |
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| Looking the Part | |
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| Conservative Employer Alert! | |
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| Red Flags Down | |
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| Giving Order to Chaos | |
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| Getting Down to It | |
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| When You Really Are a Brain Surgeon: The Curriculum Vitae | |
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| Curriculum Vitae vs. Resume | |
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| When More Is More | |
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| Just the Facts | |
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| No Objections | |
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| No Need to Summarize | |
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| Freedom of Format | |
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| Hanging Out Your Laundry | |
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| Good Schooling | |
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| Are You Published? | |
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| Putting on a Show | |
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| Joining the Team | |
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| Hangin' with the Right Folks | |
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| Forget Anything? | |
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| High Marks for a University Instructor | |
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| Create Your CV | |
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| Wrapping It Up | |
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| The Big Production | |
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| Designer Resumes | |
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| Fancy Fonts and Practical Print | |
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| Serif's Up! | |
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| Simply Sans Serif | |
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| Does Size Matter? | |
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| Sharp-Shooting Bullets | |
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| Shady Bars | |
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| Spacing Out | |
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| Resume Reality | |
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| Mastering Your Resume | |
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| In the Mood to Reproduce | |
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| Looking Classy on Paper | |
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| Getting It out the Door | |
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| Stuffing Envelopes | |
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| Snail Mail | |
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| Special Delivery | |
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| Fax Magic | |
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| E-Mail Flash | |
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| The Cover Letter Connection | |
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| The Secret to Success | |
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| Salary Small Talk | |
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| The Template of Zoom | |
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| A Head Start | |
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| Set the Date and the Place | |
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| Hello, Hello! | |
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| Jumping In | |
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| The Meat of the Matter | |
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| Getting What You Want | |
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| Ten-Four | |
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| By Example | |
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| Name Dropping | |
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| Getting Personal | |
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| Take My Hint, Please! | |
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| Getting the Hang of It | |
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| After a Job Interview | |
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| The Electronic Job Search | |
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| The ABCs of E-Resumes | |
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| What Is an Electronic Resume? | |
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| The E-Resume Appeal | |
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| Data in the Database | |
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| The Inner Workings | |
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| Keyword: Search | |
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| The E-Creation | |
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| Electronic Headings | |
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| Key Placement | |
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| Breaking into the Banks | |
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| Electronic to Paper | |
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| E-Mail Express | |
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| Easy E-Mail Resumes | |
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| Staying Out of Trouble | |
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| Getting Attached to Files | |
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| Direct Message | |
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| Getting the Job Done | |
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| Doubling Up | |
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| Better Save Than Sorry | |
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| Capitalizing on Headings | |
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| Bite the Bullet | |
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| Straight Quotes | |
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| Characters That Count | |
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| Give Me a Break | |
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| Using Your Notepad | |
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| 3-2-1, Take Off! | |
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| Banking on Success: Online Resume Banking | |
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| Resumes in a Bank? | |
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| Who Pays the Bill | |
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| The Employer's Dream | |
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| Headhunting on the Web | |
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| Who's Looking for Whom? | |
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| The Professional Approach | |
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| Specializing in Special Interests | |
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| It's a Regional Thing | |
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| The Big Guys | |
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| The Downside of Uploading | |
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| The Invisible Job Seeker | |
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| Headhunter Overkill | |
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| Telemarketing Alert | |
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| Go to the Bank and Fill Out the Forms | |
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| Blankety-Blank | |
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| The Heart of the Matter | |
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| Keeping Up-to-Date | |
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| Getting Out While You're Ahead | |
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| It's All a Scan: Scannable Resumes | |
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| Who or What's Reading Your Resume? | |
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| Get with the Program | |
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| Scanning Woes | |
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| Formatting at Its Finest | |
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| The Skinny on Scannable Fonts | |
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| Nothing Fancy-Schmancy | |
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| Printing Protocol | |
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| Into the Database | |
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| Ever Ready | |
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| Portfolio of Sample Resumes | |
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| Index | |