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In the next workshop, you'll learn one of the most innovative tools I've developed to determine if your resume is effective and how to improve it. In that workshop we'll graph how employers respond to the main headings and titles in your resume in order to show how they affect the image employers have about you and the salary they feel you are worth.

Having spent well over 10,000 hours counseling job seekers while writing their resumes with them, I estimate that about 85% of all job seekers have at least one job title that doesn't relate to the jobs they want or that substantially weakens their image. To help job seekers deal with such problems, I developed extensive worksheets and skill lists (provided in my books) to help them analyze their titles so that they can either strengthen them or replace them with stronger, truthful skill headings. As another example, Frank wanted to use his inventory control experience to apply for a Material Manager position. However, his actual title was Inventory Control Clerk which sounds lower level than Material Manager.

To prevent Frank's image from being weakened he was much better off using the skill lists in my Increase Salaries Booklet to develop a heading of Materials Management. Under that heading Frank then described how he had managed raw materials and inventory valued to $20 million which was housed in 4 production and warehouse facilities. He had been given the title of Clerk because he worked directly for the owner's son who was gone about 75% of time. This resulted in Frank actually managing the inventory operations but doing so with an inappropriate title.

This new heading, of Materials Management, then positioned Frank as being qualified for the Material Manager position. Frank also developed new headings such as Materials Requisition, Staff Management, and Workflow Scheduling to pull together and better label the supervisory skills he had gained within the restaurant industry. In this way Frank and other other job seekers using my materials are able to pull together the best of what they've gained from a variety of jobs and career fields to match the current jobs they want. Strategies like these are described in-depth in my books along with skill lists and sample sentences for 40 career fields.

Here are a few more success stories from job seekers who used these strategies to strengthen or replace job titles that weakened their image for the jobs and salaries they wanted (the real key is highlighting and marketing skills you posses that employers want!). As you can see by using the strategies presented in my newest booklet, Proven Resumes: Strategies That Have Increased Salaries, these job seekers landed great jobs and good salary increases!

"...I have been contacted, interviewed and selected for an HR position that DOUBLES my current salary. I just received the written offer today and plan to accept it. This was the best $$ I spent during my whole 6-month job search. Thank you!"  Tammy Schadl, HR Manager "My new resume was instrumental in landing me an Account Executive position that will increase my salary by no less than $18,000 annually."  Scott McCorkle, Corporate Account Manager		As with any testimonial please keep in mind that your particular results will vary!
"...I faxed my resume to ads I was interested in. To my amazement, I started receiving call backs the next day and the job of my dreams with a 26% salary increase on my first day of interviews. I would like to say THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart. Everyone should have access to this system (but I'm secretly glad they don't).  Patricia Cohn, Inventory Controller Click here to read more successes!

If you are in the process of writing a resume---or have already written one but not gotten the results you want---consider purchasing the three booklets in my Strategies That Increase Salaries series written for job seekers in the $20,000 to $100,000+ range. This powerful trio will show you how to create resumes and cover letters that control and elevate your image to match the jobs and salary you want---and there are no other books available that teach you this! You can then learn how to carry these powerful strategies into your interviews by using my interviewing booklet so that you position yourself as a top candidate!

Can These Strategies Help You? Are They Really This Successful?
If you're like many of the job seekers who attend my resume workshops you may already be feeling excited about what you've just learned--but you may still feel skeptical and question if the strategies in this site and in my books have really helped other job seekers double or triple their interview rates and increase their salaries. If you are intrigued but skeptical, I encourage you to click here and read 30+ testimonials from job seekers as well as career professionals who have given me written permission to use their names and success stories. Most impressive to me are the ones from academic deans, workforce training directors, university professors, career counselors, and college instructors like the one below from Bob Middlebrook, Executive Director of Sound Works Job Center. These career professionals have used my materials to teach hundreds to thousands of job seekers how to write powerful resumes. If you'd like to read my resume click here!

As I mentioned earlier, even if you print all of the workshops in this site you will barely scratch the surface of what you'll learn in the 200+ pages of my Strategies That Increase Salaries Booklets. They are packed with worksheets, tips, analyses of several sets of before and after resumes, resume graphs, step by step instructions on how to develop strong keyword headings for your resume and letters, 12 questions to pull out and describe your top skills, more success stories that build confidence, excellent cover letter examples, examples of how to analyze ads and job descriptions in order to identify employer needs followed by examples that teach you how to convince employers that you can solve those needs, and even more still! Click on the booklet titles shown below for page-long descriptions of each product.

Now you're ready to learn one of my most innovative strategies - graphing your resume in order to understand how employers will respond to it!