Best Resumes for Accountants and Financial Professionals


Book Description

Because in today’s competitive job market, you need every edge you can find… The founder of the Just Resumes® writing service and author of several popular resume books, Kim Marino now offers practicing and prospective accountants and financial professionals a practical, highly targeted guide to writing winning resumes. Whether you’re an executive making a lateral move or returning to the work force, or a college graduate just entering the accounting industry, this surefire handbook provides you with step-by-step guidance and savvy advice on how to create a professionally designed resume that puts your education, experience, and accomplishments in the best possible light and helps you reach your job objective. Best Resumes for Accountants and Financial Professionals first offers quick tips on the basics of resume writing, proper resume appearance, and the do’s and don’ts of resume prepartion. You’ll learn what type of resume best suits your needs and how to create each—whether chronological, functional, or combination resumes. It then gets down to specifics, with tailor-made advice and 80 detailed sample resumes and cover letters for: Accountants and financial pros who are making a lateral move or career change—such as financial planners, securities analysts, portfolio managers, brokers, account execs, and human resource directors Accountants moving up-including public, private, financial, and government accountants Accounting students and recent graduates—from first-year students with no paid experience, to college graduates looking to set forth in the real world Complete with the names, addresses, and phone numbers of the corporate headquarters of the Big 6 accounting firms and Fortune 500 companies, and an alphabetical listing of key accountant associations and publications, Best Resumes for Accountants and Financial Professionals demonstrates how you can make a lasting first impression, and then reinforce it through the job selection process.




Real-resumes for Financial Jobs


Book Description

A book designed to be the best friend of those who want to enter, advance in, and change jobs in one of the hottest industries in the 21st century; finance. The best way to enter a new industry is to look and sound as though you "belong" in the field, so there are resumes to help the career-minded find their first job in the financial world. Other resumes help the financially astute professional advance in the field. You'll find job titles such as these in this book designed to help those who want to move in this hot field of opportunity: auditor, financial services consultant, investment banker, commercial banker, bookkeeper, commercial loan specialist, data entry operator, controller, chief financial officer, budget management specialist, business analyst, business services manager, accounts receivable specialist, insurance adjuster, funds transfer analyst, loan officer, mortgage consultant, real estate broker, revenue field auditor, accounting manager, staff accountant, tax auditor, teller supervisor, training operations manager...and many others!




The Resume Handbook


Book Description

Only one interview is granted for every 250 resumes received With The Resume Handbook, you can make sure yours is the one on top! Your resume has one purpose: to obtain an interview. In order to create an interview-winning resume, you need to know what to say and how to say it - and The Resume Handbook will show you how. The book focuses on three major objectives: Organization: Give your resume structure and visual impact to immediately capture attention The Basics: What to include and what to leave out so you don't turn off the reader Accomplishments: Present yourself as a highly motivated achiever Now in its fifth edition, The Resume Handbook features thirty-seven of the best resumes ever written and provides no-nonsense advice for making your resume stand out from the crowd.




Professional Resumes for Accounting, Tax, Finance, and Law


Book Description

Resumes for accounting, tax, finance, and law professionals -- each submitted by professional resume writers.




Just Resumes


Book Description

Presents 200 job-winning résumé samples, provides information on using the Internet to conduct a job search, and offers tips and techniques for creating an effective résumé.




Resumes for Banking and Financial Careers


Book Description

Resumes for Banking and Financial Careers offers the tools to craft a strong resume that stands out and will lead to interviews and job offers. Up-to-date, professional resume-writing advice details the essential components of successful resumes and cover letters for careers in banking and finance. Includes a variety of resume formats, tips on highlighting strengths and using active vocabulary, and helpful work sheets for gathering personal information.




Job Hunter's Sourcebook


Book Description

Where to Find Employment Leads and Other Job Search Resources.




Resumes for the Health Care Professional


Book Description

Over 100 model resumes for doctors, nurses, therapists, technicians, dieticians, and more Cover letter, interview, and job search tips Using the Internet, online job searching and guidelines Create an impressive, winning resume with the bestselling guide to getting a better job in America?s fastest-growing and fastest-changing profession With new technology, managed care, and other developments, the health care profession today is the scene of astonishing change: new jobs are being created, new skills are needed, and job responsibilities are being redefined and expanded. For almost a decade, Resumes for the Health Care Professional has been the relied-upon resource for professionals in health care. Now it has been newly updated to help you take advantage of the opportunities?and prepare for the challenges?of finding the right job in the new competitive health care industry. Featuring a no-nonsense, proven approach, plus valuable inside tips and tricks expressly for the health care industry, Resumes for the Health Care Professional provides: Examples culled from the author?s vast bank of health care resumes, including egistered nurses, technologists, technicians, therapists, social workers, and more Cover letter and thank you samples Special coverage of new job trends in the health care industry and how to take advantage of them Tips on writing the most effective electronic resume Lists of popular Internet career centers and Web sites for health care professionals Job titles and descriptions of key health care professions, including health assessment and treating occupations; and service, technologist, technician, and diagnosing positions







How to Land a Top-Paying Financial Accountants Job


Book Description

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Financial accountants job, or to apply for a better job. What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much stronger document, be much better prepared and a step ahead for the next opportunity. The book comes filled with useful cheat sheets. It helps you get your career organized in a tidy, presentable fashion. It also will inspire you to produce some attention-grabbing cover letters that convey your skills persuasively and attractively in your application packets. After studying it, too, you'll be prepared for interviews, or you will be after you conducted the practice sessions where someone sits and asks you potential questions. It makes you think on your feet! This book makes a world of difference in helping you stay away from vague and long-winded answers and you will be finally able to connect with prospective employers, including the one that will actually hire you. This book successfully challenges conventional job search wisdom and doesn't load you with useful but obvious suggestions ('don't forget to wear a nice suit to your interview, ' for example). Instead, it deliberately challenges conventional job search wisdom, and in so doing, offers radical but inspired suggestions for success. Think that 'companies approach hiring with common sense, logic, and good business acumen and consistency?' Think that 'the most qualified candidate gets the job?' Think again! Time and again it is proven that finding a job is a highly subjective business filled with innumerable variables. The triumphant jobseeker is the one who not only recognizes these inconsistencies and but also uses them to his advantage. Not sure how to do this? Don't worry-How to Land a Top-Paying Financial accountants Job guides the way. Highly recommended to any harried Financial accountants jobseeker, whether you want to work for the government or a company. You'll plan on using it again in your efforts to move up in the world for an even better position down the road. This book offers excellent, insightful advice for everyone from entry-level to senior professionals. None of the other such career guides compare with this one. It stands out because it: 1) explains how the people doing the hiring think, so that you can win them over on paper and then in your interview; 2) has an engaging, reader-friendly style; 3) explains every step of the job-hunting process - from little-known ways for finding openings to getting ahead on the job. This book covers everything. Whether you are trying to get your first Financial accountants Job or move up in the system, get this book.