Creating Your First Resume
A Step-by-Step Guide to Write Your First Competitive Resume
Kathryn Troutman, Author
Paulina Chen, Editor and Designer
In this multiple award-winning guide, resume expert Kathryn Troutman provides a solid source of advice for not just writing your first resume – but creating an impressive one.
The book was developed for recent grads and students in high school, college, or technical school. The 15 resume samples cover the diverse ways a resume can be used – when applying to college, internships or technical schools, jobseeking in the private sector, seeking federal employment, or entering the military.
The guide Creating Your First Resume has received four awards!
Foreword Reviews’ Indie Book of the Year Silver Award for Career
- Global eBook Bronze Award for Education / Career / Employment
- Independent Book Publishers Association’s Ben Franklin Bronze Medal for Reference
- Independent Book Publishers Association’s Benjamin Franklin Gold Medal for Interior Design 1-2 Color
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Creating Your First Resume is the award-winning how-to guide for writing a first-time resume. It’s easy to feel under huge pressure when you’re writing your first resume. After all, this is the document that is supposed to get your foot in the door. But how do you write a stand-out resume when you’ve never done one before? You’ll need to find a solid source of good advice. This is exactly what Resume Guru Kathryn Troutman offers in this visually striking, 74-page book.
This Guide was designed for new grads and students in high school, college, or technical school. Older resume writers will find direction too from the easy-to-follow and actionable resume writing process the author provides.
Includes 15 sample resumes that will help students of all paths write a first resume that fits their needs. Resume samples have appealing designs and show how to use popular free online resume templates to enhance the look and content of the resume.
The author was inspired to create the original 2006 guide, Creating Your High School Resume, by her own children and their friends. She has seen how presenting their best qualifications in resumes has made a huge difference in their lives and careers.
The Guide walks you through:
Creating a solid basic first resume
- Adding the all-important skills (hard and soft), accomplishments and keywords
- Selecting the resume sample that best fits your goals
- Using online resume builders and resume templates
- Creating a dynamic cover letter
- Applying for jobs with confidence, including handling applications and interviews
- How to write standout essays for college, scholarships or internships
- How to effectively follow up the interview
- Intelligently negotiating the offer
Create a Digital Federal Career Library with Kathryn Troutman’s Federal Career Books
If you are a mentor, coach, employment specialist, have a copy of all of the Federal career books available to refer to for format samples,
The sample Outline Format Federal resumes can help you with your own Federal Resume format, length, accomplishment writing to help you get BEST QUALIFIED for your federal application.
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THERE is a watermark at the bottom of each page with your name in the watermark.
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Anonymous –
How bad do you want that job? that internship? This is the tool you need.
This book clearly shows how to make a positive impression with a resume tailored for your skills, accomplishments, and dreams. If you think you have no skills or accomplishments, think again: the author will coach you through with easy brainstorming activities offered only after a variety of examples. Although I bought this book for my son, I am planning on benefitting from some of the format illustrations for my own career goals. After all, the do’s and don’ts for resumes today are not the same as when I wrote my first resume and it’s important to have this updated information. This guide answers all the detailed questions, but is presented with easy to read lists to check off and well placed, small chunks of usable information. I wish that the templates were available for these resumes, but the since content of the resume is just as important and I recommend using this book as a resource for generating your own resume, even if it’s not your “first.” Also, if you’re Word or Adobe savvy, you can copy the styles you see. If not, you may want to take this book to someone who can take the types of skills and accomplishments this book encouraged you to generate and choose from the formatting examples and put it all together to create a similar looking resume. (OR, you can learn the formatting tools yourself with short and easy YouTube tutorials.) This resource provides examples geared for students seeking internships, new graduates starting their career, and even military veterans seeking civilian work. I’m glad I invested in it, and I think my son will be glad, too.
Anonymous –
For Some of Us, It’s Been a While. This Book Is Helping.
I remember writing resumes in my 20s and 30s, before I started my own business. Now it’s been many, many years, and I like how Creating Your First Resume really breaks down all the elements, without a lot of fluff to have to wade through. The coverage of the basic sections is a good reminder, and there are great examples of skills lists, types of accomplishments, and keywords selections. I’m most excited about the sample resumes designed in the free HLOOM templates from Microsoft. Resumes sure have changed and gotten better looking! It also helps to see how others have presented what they have to offer in a compelling way. You can see that the author has a lot of experience writing resumes. This basic book is helping me write a strong resume in my spare time, as my life is very busy.
Anonymous –
Creating my first resume was an easy step-by-step process thanks to the resume formats.
As a current college student pursuing a degree in visual communications, creating my first resume was an easy step-by-step process thanks to the resume formats. Following the format of Emily Thompson’s resume, I was able to quickly develop resume that best featured my current education, and experience in graphic/web design. I used HLOOM to create a beautiful layout for my resume and was inspired to re-edit the layout in Adobe Indesign! Because of Creating Your First Resume I was able to land an internship as Web Designer!