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The Get-It-Done CV

Create a CV That Will Land You Your Dream Job

by (author) Lana Guzman

photographs by Edgar Guzman

Publisher
NOBLE GRAY PRESS
Initial publish date
Dec 2021
Category
Resumes, Job Hunting, General, Vocational Guidance, Interviewing, Internships
Recommended Age
18
Recommended Grade
12
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781990070150
    Publish Date
    Dec 2021
    List Price
    $99.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781990070143
    Publish Date
    Jun 2022
    List Price
    $50

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Description

This book will help you distinguish yourself in writing from thousands of professionals competing with you in a job market. It will also tell you how to successfully avoid the 'standardization' of you as an employee even when the job you are applying for is a highly structured one. Finally, this book will tell you how to project these on paper to the satisfaction of your potential employer in every and all industries.

About the authors

Contributor Notes

Lana Guzman, MBA is an entrepreneur and a business consultant with two decades of business experience. She has successfully written / re-written / edited / adapted over one hundred CVs for a large variety of clients, from a line worker to a CEO, from a high school graduate to a University professor. Over the years, Lana did over five dozen of one-on-one employment and academic interviews and participated in a few full-day case-study interviews. She also conducted interviews on the employer side on a number of occasions. The geographical scope of her experience spans three continents and seven countries. Lana holds MBA from HEC Montreal and three undergraduate degrees from the leading Universities in Europe.

Excerpt: The Get-It-Done CV: Create a CV That Will Land You Your Dream Job (by (author) Lana Guzman; photographs by Edgar Guzman)

A Curriculum Vitae or as it is better know, CV, contains information about

• your education,

• your work experience,

• your skills,

• the languages you speak, write, and even understand and/or can translate from and to,

• your volunteering experience,

• your extra-curriculum experience,

• your references,

• a summary of your persona.

A summary of what your personal stands for may or may not be present in your CV. Depending on what template you choose out of a myriad of those available for free or for a fee, the order of those may change, but essentially every CV contains these things to one or another extent. This should lead you to think two things. One, your CV must have all of those components to make it a document that every reader will recognize as a CV. Two, your CV must present all of those things in a way that stands out. This book is exactly about that, how to make YOUR CV stand out.

In this part of the book, I discuss in great detail what each and every part of the CV. I discuss what every part means and also what it does not mean, what to include, what to exclude, what to highlight, what cliché phrases are, how to avoid cliché phrases, and how to create meaningful content that will actually stand out and not just promise to stand out.