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Resume Tips

Recommended Reading

Professional Associations

Links

Resume Tips (top)

The trick is to predefine the margins of your text so when it is pasted into an email message it is clean (i.e., there aren't a bunch of broken lines and extra spaces). Margins should be set at around 6.5 inches.

Save your résumé as a "text only" file with "line breaks." Open this new file in Notepad, or any other text editor that you can cut and paste text into. Most operating systems have a text editor. Review your résumé in the text editor. Notepad lets you view your résumé as it will most likely be viewed by the recipient. It will automatically convert proportional fonts to a fixed font if you did not select one earlier, and it will indicate what part of your text are unsupported ASCII characters such as bullets or underlining. Replace all unsupported characters with their ASCII equivalent. For example, bullets created in Microsoft Word 6.0 or 7.0 appear as a question mark when opened in Notepad. They can be replaced with asterisks or hyphens. Any character found on your keyboard is an ASCII-equivalent character. If you see long lines of text in your editor, use Notepad’s word wrap feature under the Edit menu. This feature inserts "hard" returns, allowing you to format the résumé to meet specified margins.

Copy and paste the text of the résumé into the body of a test e-mail message, once you are satisfied with the way it looks in your text editor. Insert cover letter text above the résumé in the e-mail message. Do not send the cover letter separately as an e-mail attachment Send a copy of this e-mail message to yourself and to a friend who is using a different e-mail program, before transferring the text file to careerSMITH.com.

Recommended Reading (top)

The following books are highly recommended. We here are careerSMITH are proud to offer these discounted titles in cooperation with Amazon.com.

Kennedy's Pocket Guide to Working With Executive Recruiters
Kennedy Publications, James H. Kennedy (Editor)

101 Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions
Ron Fry; Career Press; 4th edition (January 2000)

The Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2002-03 Edition
http://www.bls.gov/oco/

Extreme HR: Pushing the Envelope to World Class Performance
Peter Weddle - ISBN 1-928734-22-7

The Keys to Successful Recruiting and Staffing
Barry Siegel - ISBN 1928734-17-0

WEDDLES 2004 Directory of Employment-Related Internet Sites
ISBN 1-928734-19-7

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras

Good to Great
Jim Collins

Selected Professional Associations (top)

ENR:
Engineering News-Record
ASCE:
American Society of Civil Engineers
AIME:
American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers
ARTBA:
American Road and Transportation Builders
IEEE:
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IABSE:
International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering
ITE:
International Transportation Engineers
SAME:
Society of American Military Engineers

Links (top)

NIR Moisture Sensors, Moisture Gauges, Moisture Analyzers
Process Sensors Corporation (PSC) is a manufacturer of moisture gauges and sensors, providing worldwide industries, accurate and reliable moisture measurements for quality control in manufacturing processes.