Writing a career-change resume is the most complex of resumes to write. Using actual resumes and covering letters, the editor of this series shows the reader how to consider new opportunities and how to communicate past experience in a way that builds bridges to new careers.

Written by the official resume advisers to Monster.com, this is the ultimate guide to creating life-changing resumes. The Career-Change Resume helps aspiring career-changers reinvent themselves by showing them how to transform their resumes. The book includes step-by-step instructions demonstrating how to craft resumes that open doors to new careers; more than 150 sample resumes and cover letters; valuable, innovative career-change tools and strategies; and solutions to common problems plaguing career-changers.

The down economy has prompted millions of people to consider changing jobs or industries to stay employed. A major obstacle these people face is to write a resume that effectively connects their skills and experience to new opportunities. Expert Resumes for Career Changers shows people who are transitioning from one career to another how to do just that. This book features a collection of outstanding professionally written resumes designed for people transitioning into a new career. In addition to 180 pages of sample resumes, this book provides winning job search strategies, sound resume-writing advice, and tips for creating and using electronic resumes. New content for this edition includes completely updated resumes, a new chapter on writing cover letters, and a collection of cover letter samples.

Civil engineers, mechanical engineers, structural engineers, marine engineers, chemical engineers, systems engineers, and engineering support personnel have a lot in common when they want to create a resume, and this book shows resumes and cover letters of individuals who want to work in the field. For those who seek federal employment, there's a special section showing how to create federal resumes and government applications. Since many technical types aren't writers, this comes as a special gift: select a winning format, plug in your background specs, and away you go. It's that easy--with REAL RESUMES in hand. - The Midwest Book Review1-885288-42-5

Even within the nursing field, there are a wide variety of positions, and this book shows samples of resumes and cover letters than have worked. This title will be a valuable resource to nursing professionals who seek clinical nursing or administrative positions. Newly minted nurses and newcomers to the field will learn how to show off their clinical rotations to best advantage. Nurses often change fields, too, and the book includes resumes of nurses who have successfully transitioned into pharmaceutical sales and other areas. A ?bonus? of this book is that it includes samples of paperwork involved in getting federal government jobs: specialized resumes and the federal ?resumix? as well as the write-ups for the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs) which are often required for government positions. This book will show nurses how to maximize their career potential, get federal nursing positions, and change fields if they want to. (This is the 25th title in PREP's Real-Resumes Series.)

Title shows resumes and cover letters of people who wish to enter the manufacturing field, advance in it, or exit from it into new careers. Job hunting strategies are provided, as are strategies for transferring manufacturing skills and experience to other industries. The book contains more than 100 real resumes and cover letters which target this industry, and the purpose of the book is to give models or examples for people to use in creating their own resumes and cover letters tailored to the manufacturing industry. Readers will find resumes of machine operator, product design director, production foreman, quality engineer, shipping and receiving manager, tool and die maker, tire builder, welder, team leader, assembler, maintenance supervisor, and many other jobs. This book will be of enormous help to people seeking employment in the manufacturing sector and to people who desire to transfer knowledge gained in a manufacturing environment into new occupational areas.

Title shows resumes and cover letters of people seeking employment in the construction industry. Job hunting techniques are explained in step-by-step fashion in order to benefit those seeking construction work. Because the construction industry tends to be cyclical, a helpful section is included which describes how to transfer construction industry experience to other fields and industries. The book's main contents are the resumes and cover letters of construction industry professionals. Included are resumes of project manager, carpenter, foreman, safety manager, electrician, brick mason, engineering manager, real estate agent, plumber, job planner, sander, flooring installer, interior designer, independent contractor, and many others.