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“Is your resume holding you back from a great opportunity?” asks Joe Turner in his article Six Tips to Rock Your Resume for Quintessential Careers.

“As a recruiter, I’ve seen thousands of resumes over the past 15 years. The majority of them didn’t make the cut and needed major revisions.

“The stakes are higher today because the job market has intensified, and employers are getting more selective. Having a poorly written resume can put you in the rejection pile. Don’t let your resume hold you back.

“Turner offers six easy steps to really rock your resume and motivate hiring managers to call you. The first appears below, and the rest of the tips will appear here over the next five days.

Apply the Top-Third Rule

“Place your key selling statements up in the top one-third of your first page. Your resume gets no more than 20 seconds of eyeball time before your reader has made the decision to either continue reading or to pass. Grab attention early and place your most dramatic sales pitch as close to the top of page one as possible.”

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While job-seekers may resist crafting a new resume because they suspect employers aren’t hiring during the summer — especially in a recession — those are exactly the reasons workers need to keep their resumes polished and up to date, said Quintessential Careers’ Founder and Publisher Dr. Randall S. Hansen.

Hansen explained that summer is an excellent time to seek a new job as “competition is minimal because job-seekers assume that hiring decisions will be postponed until fall.” He added that current economic conditions dictate that workers be ready with effective resumes in case of unexpected layoffs.

Hansen suggested that job-seekers use summertime to fine-tune their resumes and lay the groundwork for future hiring. To help job-seekers in this quest, Hansen noted, Quintessential Careers has just added 100 new resume and cover-letter samples.

Visitors to Quintessential Careers conduct more searches using the terms “resume samples” than virtually any other type of content, Hansen said. “That’s why we’re delighted to provide more of what users are looking for.”

The new resume and cover-letter additions include samples in these categories:

• Resume and Cover Letter Samples For Management and Human Resources Professionals
• Resume and Cover Letter Samples For Operations Management Professionals
• Resume and Cover Letter Samples For Professionals in Engineering, Science, and Information Technology Professionals
• Resume and Cover Letter Samples For Finance and Investments Professionals
• Resume and Cover Letter Samples For Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and Public Relations Professionals
• Resume and Cover Letter Samples For Training, Organizational Development, and Consulting Professionals
• Resume and Cover Letter Samples For Professionals in Association Management, Nonprofits, and Social Services:
• Resume and Cover Letter Samples For Law and Government Professionals
• Resume and Cover Letter Samples For Executive and Senior-Level Professionals
• Resume and Cover Letter Samples For New College Grads

Quintessential Careers has also added two new sets of resume tips, here and here, Job-Seeker Career and Job-Search Worksheets to help build resumes, and a new e-book, The Quintessential Guide to Surefire Resumes for New Graduates and Other Entry-Level Candidates. The site will add several new resume articles in mid-July.

As with all the other tools and resources on Quintessential Careers, there is no cost for these new samples and tools, said Hansen.

Hansen emphasized the value of improving one’s resume and job hunting during the summer. “Vacations can be planned around the possibility of relocating to another city. In addition, fiscal years often begin in June or July, making new hiring possible,” Hansen said.

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