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“Hot Tips on Resume Writing”

Filed under Resumes and Cover Letters
Posted by Libraries, April 10, 2006
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Yana Parker, Damngood.com, March 30, 2006
http://www.damngood.com/jobseekers/tips.html

Yana Parker, author of the wonderful Damn Good Resume Guide, has a website with lots of free advice for job seekers, including “Hot Tips on Resume Writing.” Among her tips, “Fill your resume with ‘PAR’ statements. PAR stands for Problem-Action-Results; in other words, first you state the problem that existed in your workplace, then you describe what you did about it, and finally you point out the beneficial results.”

For more resume and cover letter tips, visit the Career Resource e-library at http://my.simmons.edu/library/collections/career/
resumes.shtml, or check out Yana’s book, the Damn Good Resume Guide, at the Career Resource Library in P304E.

—Jennifer M. Lege