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Resume Magic: Trade Secrets of a Professional Resume Writer (Resume Magic Trade Secrets of a Professional Resume Writer) |  | Author: Susan Britton Whitcomb
Publisher: JIST Works
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Edition: 3
Pages: 585
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Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.4 x 1.4
ISBN: 1593573111
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.142
EAN: 9781593573119
Publication Date: September 2006
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 Very Useful Book for Anyone Searching for a Job March 9, 2010
DougR (Near Chicago)
I don't normally bother to write reviews but I just published a very negative review for another book and in that review I recommended anyone considering it should instead buy Resume Magic. So it only seemed fair that I enter a positive review for this book.
I am updating my Resume and wanted to incorporate some of the current ideas and formats so that my applications had the best chance of being considered. This book provided the help I was looking for and I believe that I have been able to improve the presentation of my Resume as a consequence. While it is too early in my job search to tell if my belief will actually turn out to be true, I would still recommend this book to anyone whether they are a new graduate or an experienced professional.
I do want to mention one important negative; I bought the Kindle version of this book and even reading it on my computer screen (Kindle for PC) most of the example resumes are virtually unreadable. Although I have not tried to read the book on my Kindle device yet, I have to believe that those example resumes are completely unreadable. You may be better off purchasing the hard copy.
 Content is okay; much of book not readable on Kindle March 6, 2010
Medical Rock Star (Holland, MI USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While the content of this book is okay, much of it is not readable on a standard Kindle. Tables, diagrams, and example resumes and cover letters are too small to read on the Kindle and they are saved in such a way that you can't zoom to make them larger. This practically renders the book of little value. May be a very good book to order the print version, but it does not meet minimum requirements for readability on the Kindle and should not be offered on this platform unless they fix how the graphics are presented.
 Convoluted and jumps around, but provides decent reference January 25, 2010
Erica Frank (Sacramento, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If there's a section of your resume you would like to fine-tune, this is a decent book to go to. But if starting from scratch, beware.
The following sentence describes the book in the same style the book describes resumes: this book inundates the reader with hundreds of ways to put together pieces of a resume with all steps jumbled together it doesn't work well as a lamp and no formatting advice for start to finish potato keywords ^Y)). possibly useful for baking.
Exaggerated, but just a little.
Having access to multiple resume ideas wouldn't be a problem if the reading was more linear, but since things are jumpy it's hard to tell which advice applies to what you want. The book has innovative ideas, which I like, but that can do more damage than good in this field. And with all the in-depth information on different subjects, the chapter on formatting doesn't give any step-by-step examples of making a resume (or section) from start to finish. Just a limited and unorganized listing of how to do certain things.
Hundreds of pages and dozens of hours into the book, I eventually tossed it and found better advice online. If you want to slow somebody down on their resume process, possibly frustrating them into eternal unemployment, give them this book.
 Helpful but packed with too much fluff September 1, 2009
M. Parker (Los Angeles, CA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found this book helpful. Its full of great resume writing tips, but you have to read through alot of fluff to find them. While I appreciate the author wanting to explain the psychology behind her techniques, she spends a great deal of time discussing product ads (unrelated to resumes) and gives alot of "see how this helped Tom, Dick and Jane" stories that really don't provide any added benefit to the reader, in my opinion. I would prefer the author impart her knowledge in a direct, no non-sense manner. I do like that this book provides alot of before and after resume transformations, and encourages you to develop your own authentic resume, rather than ripping one off from the book. However the book could be reduced to one-third of its size without loosing any of its vital information.
 Great for overall resume overhauls, but no good examples for engineers or the sciences August 6, 2009
Leeenda
I bought this book to overhaul my resume after finishing graduate school with a PhD in Materials Science Engineering.
This book is really excellent in that it shows you how to sell yourself, in terms of accomplishments, job summaries, etc... There are also very very good sections on the graphic design of your resume and the judicious use of white space.
The concepts in this book can be applied to any job field, but the examples seem to be slanted towards sales jobs. Most of my experience is in research and process engineering, so while there were no good example resumes for my profession, I could still pick and choose ideas from the resumes that were presented.
After rewriting my resume using this book, I've got nothing but compliments about the new look of it, and many have said that they're going to copy my format.
And within one week I've already got a company interested in talking to me about a job.
Invest in this book... On Amazon it's pretty cheap, and it's much better than the "Knock Em Dead Resumes" book I also bought. I love the Knock Em Dead interview book (which has helped me get three job offers), but their resume book is nowhere near as thorough.
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