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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• The facts of life
• 1    Your CV – The Most Financially Important Document You’ll Ever Have
• Self-awareness: the key to professional survival and success
• Employers just want to make money
• Why an employer may never get the chance to read your CV
• Understand your customer
• 2    Your Customer Knows What He Wants – How to Get Inside His Head
• Settle on a target job title
• To really understand your target job, deconstruct it
• Target job deconstruction: the way into your customer’s head
• Now you know your customers’ needs
• 3    How to Define and Build a Desirable Professional Image
• Components of a desirable professional image
• A review of transferable skills and professional values
• Transferable skills, professional values, and the secret language of job postings
• 4    The Simplest, Smartest, Fastest Way to Write Your CV – Keep It Simple
• Five steps to a great CV
• Putting together your first draft
• How to build your CV
• Integrating a professional image into your CV
• Use headlines to guide the reader
• A professional message
• Performance profile
• Professional competencies
• Skills prioritization
• Performance/career highlights
• Professional experience
• When achievements are hard to define
• Ongoing professional education
• Accreditations, professional licences, and civil service grades
• Professional associations
• Publications, patents, and speaking
• Languages
• Military
• Personal flexibility, relocation
• Judgment needed
• What never goes in
• 5    How to Give Your CV Punch
• Customize the template
• Filling in the template
• Action verbs
• Proofreading your final draft
• Spelling and grammar
• 6    CV Customization, Alternative CVs and Formats Needed for an Effective Job Search
• Customizing your CV for specific openings
• The major CV formats and why you need them
• PDF CVs
• ATS-friendly CVs
• TXT versus ATS friendly
• TXT versus ATS friendly
• Employer-preferred formats
• Web-based or HTML CV
• Your CV and databases
• Updating Your CV
• Your social networking profile
• First things first
• How to create a brilliant linkedin profile
• Link your CV to your social media profile
• Privacy and saving your work
• HTML/multimedia CV considerations
• The business card CV
• CV for promotions
• Proofread and test-email all versions of your CV
• 7    Ready to Launch
• The importance of immediate impact
• Fonts and font sizes
• Proofing the print resume
• Appearance checklist
• The final product
• 8    The CVs
• Index
• Backcover