About This “Guide”
When I started my blog, www.TheJobBored.com back in 2007, I did it because I thought that most career advice books sucked. If you’ve ever bought one, you probably know what I mean. They’re full of vague, feel-good, inspirational advice. You have to sift through the pages to find the nuggets of good, tangible tips.
It’s not the fault of the authors, I guess. You can’t put out a physical book with only a few pages in it. Books require you to have hundreds of pages, so the authors end up having to come up with a bunch of filler to make the manuscript substantial enough to merit printing (and to justify the $19.95 cover price).
That’s why I loved the blog format. I could serve out real, tangible tips and job search hacks. Want to know how to handle a tough interview question like: “What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses?” Bam! I could give you my best advice in an easily digestible couple hundred words.
When I stumbled upon this domain, I realized it would be the perfect vehicle to finally do my resume writing book the way I wanted to do it: simple, no nonsense, no BS, to the point.
Sure, the page count on this “book” might not make it to the hundreds, but then again, I’m really only interested in focusing on what you’re really looking for: the real, bare bones, real world advice you need. No filler.
My goal with this book is simple: I want to take you line-by-line through the process of writing a resume.
Hopefully, you should be able to leave this browser window open on the computer, open up a Word file, and then with the two windows side by side, you can click through this guide and I’ll tell you: “First you do this. Now you do this. Now you do this.”
Within an hour or two, you should have your resume completed, and I’ll have led you through the entire process.
If you want more elaborate dissertations about what resumes are, and how they came to be, and tons of footnotes and filler – fine! There are other resume books out there.
But this one will simply tell you what you need to do to write your resume.
I hope you’ll find it helpful.
-Brian McCullough
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