Chapter 2 - Improve Your Self-Confidence and Expand Your Comfort Zone
Success stories build your confidence something we all need during a job search! .Successes of real job seekers who created far better resumes and learned they had a wealth of skills employers want. This section discusses the fact that employers really are more interested in your skills rather than specific titles.

Chapter 3 - Resumes REALLY are That Important!!
Employers receive hundreds to thousands of resumes and spend little time reviewing them and your resume must grab an employer's attention and sell your top skills in seconds. Resumes also lay the foundation for employers to ask you questions during interviews ... therefore a weak resume results in weak interviews and a strong resume results in much stronger interviews.

Chapter 4 - 6 Steps to Create a Powerful Resume
You'll be taken through 6 Easy Steps to Create Your Resume, whether it's a skill based resume or a chronological resume. Resume samples illustrate both types of resume formats and are used as examples to show you how to complete the worksheets. 

Chapter 5 - Skill Lists and Sample Sentences To Create A Proven Resume
This chapter includes over 2,000 skills, skill headings and sample resume statements for 45 career fields with 350 skill areas cross-referenced in 60 resume samples. The skill lists and statements make it easy for anyone to flip to the career fields in which they have experience and check off information that matches their background. You can view a complete list of the career fields by clicking the link at the bottom of this page.

Chapter 6 - 12 Critical Questions to Expand and Control Your Image
This chapter provides the top questions I've found that I ask whenever I write resumes with job seekers - no matter their income level or the industry they're in - you'll see more reasons why the book has generated so many success stories and pay increases!

Chapter 7 - Creating Powerful Design and Content
You'll learn to create a resume that uses design to control and direct the employer's eye path to your top skills and sell you in seconds ... a must when you know that employers spend as little as 30 seconds glancing at resumes before discarding them. Several sets of resumes are analyzed to teach you how to use design elements that will make your resume stand out. You'll also learn how to write strong resume content. It's important to know that the design of your resume must get attention but it's really the content that will convince employers to call you.

Chapter 8 - What You Should and Shouldn't Tell Employers
Here you'll learn the nuts and bolts questions people have about describing their employment history (and related problems), education, professional affiliations, and other issues. You are taken step by step through the process of creating powerful objective statement sections that have increased pay.  Examples from resumes that landed a $400 a month increase and a $42,000 salary increase.

Chapter 9 - 60 Proven Resume Examples
This chapter contains 60 resume examples with an extensive cross reference list of skill headings contained in all resumes and is grouped by industry/skill categories. The resumes are grouped by major career categories and 350 skill headings are cross referenced so you can pick and choose skills from other resumes that also match your background.  Questions to help build a resume for each career field and are a powerful tool in identifying and quantifying your achievements.  Click for full list of all resumes and skills.  

Chapter 10 - Cover Letters: Strategies That Have Increased Salaries!
You'll learn why most cover letters FAIL and see samples of how to create a cover letter that WORKS.  You must understand how employers screen cover letters and resumes and learn how to use cover letter design that directs and controls the eye path, and saves employers reading time.

Chapter 11 - Interviewing: Strategies That Have Increased Salaries
This chapter addresses 13 criteria that many employers judge applicants by to determine if they are overqualified, qualified or unqualified. Cynthia's unsuccessful interview is critiqued and graphed using the 13 criteria. The graph shows why Cynthia appeared unqualified in 10 of the criteria and qualified in only 3 of the criteria discussed. You're taken step by step through each step of the Interviewing Cycle:

Chapter 12 - Electronic Resumes, Online & Offline Job Search Strategies 
How to identify keywords that are critical to creating an effective electronic resume. Keywords are how electronic resumes are sorted in order to find candidates with specific areas of experience, skills and education. The Electronic Resumes & Job Search chapter takes you step by step through the process of creating ASCII, scannable and e-mail resume formats.

Success Imagery
If you're like many job seekers you may want a better job or higher salary or hope to make a career change ... but you may also feel somewhat intimidated about pursuing your goals. This chapter provides the Success Imagery, I and many of my clients, have employed to achieve our career goals - many clients have commented on how this chapter has helped lift them to job search success.

Job Search Organizer  
If you're like most job seekers the idea of hunting for a job is bad enough in and of itself--let alone adding to the problem by having to keep track of all the places and people you've contacted when applying for jobs.