This book has everything: sample resumes, insider's info on selection process, great advice on winning interviews, even a list of Academic and Professional Associations.

If you're a true Keats fan this is a must to add to your collection. Contains all of Keat's best work. Or enrich somone's life who is not familiar with Keats. A great gift idea.

As educators know, it can be difficult to put together a resume filled with all that goes into teaching: classroom, coaching, club advisor, education, licenses, etc. This book not only tells the career educator what to include, it helps weed out unnecessary information. With sections such as Production Guidelines, Tailoring Your Resume, and Resumes for International Teaching, this book is for the teacher seriously looking for a new position. It even has a section on Cover Letters.

I really enjoyed this resume book. It helped me to get my first teaching job and I was even complimented on my resume by my employer. I really found the chapter on what gets left out helpful. It also gives you good action words and short phrases to use. Great for administrators too!

In all my years in both academic and professional circles, it still surprises me that many people, from graduate students and professors to high-powered CEOs and executive directors of non-profit organizations, do not know how to prepare and present their sterling qualifications on paper. As such, this explains the vital importance of Anthony and Roe's Curriculum Vitae Handbook. By now, one might imagine that the content of this outstanding book to be de riguer among academics and professionals, and that at best, the book can only guide the reader in the preparation of a CV that does not stand out in a bad way. Nonetheless, given the considerable compositional and quantitative faux paus I have witnessed many individuals make in the preparation and presentation of their CVs, I sincerely believe that this text is a critical component of any aspiring and seasoned professional's arsenal.

After defining exactly what a CV is, the book offers a few terse paragraphs on a variety of topics that include, but are not limited to, things such as promoting and using the CV, CV format, length, and content, and the nuts of bolts of preparing the CV. The text really emphasizes revision in the CV writing process, and warns the reader against putting down on paper anything and everything one has done in the final CV document that is destined for distribution. The book tells the reader that apart from the three most critical elements of a CV and a standard resume (name, address and educational attainment), good judgment, common sense, and the position one seeks dictate what should be included in the final document. The authors note that what should and should not go into the final draft, as well as how the final draft of the CV appears from the presentation standpoint, will naturally change over time.

They also admonish against the use of standard, cookie-cutter formats when presenting the content of a CV, as this may place onerous constraints on someone whose achievements may not be adequately accommodated by the prevailing CV style in one's field. The authors emphasize the general, though very important rule of content first, style second. The book really pays for itself, however, with its extensive sample CVs, and manages to present one CV for just about every conceivable academic discipline. Along with each sample CV comes a few useful pointers, or strategic features, to help the reader optimally tailor the CV content for his or her particular discipline. Once the CV has been prepared, the authors show the reader how to go about turning the CV into a standard resume. A final section on the drafting of suitable cover letters rounds out the text, and the authors include two appendices covering contact information for professional societies and a brief resource list.

Aside from the overtly terse nature of the text and its simplistic economy of prose (which I find to be a good thing), the book has three minor disadvantages. Written before the entrenchment of the electronic resume, the book does not cover in any considerable detail how to prepare a scan-ready document. The authors should try to update their otherwise excellent text by including a list of keywords for the electronic version of the resume, and include a few sample resumes towards the end of the book. Second, some topics presented at the start of the book, such as the suggested CV Categories in the CV Content section of the text, could have used some expansion via explanation of the various headings and a few good examples of what to include underneath those headings. Finally, the use of standard chapters in future editions of the text would be a minor but nonetheless helpful organizational improvement.

I suggest that readers use Acy L. Jackson's Prepare Your Curriculum Vitae to assist in organizing and developing the content of the CV, and then pull out this book to format and put the finishing touches on the CV's style for subsequent distribution. Also, Jackson's Prepare Your Curriculum Vitae contains thoughtful, more developed chapters on electronic resume preparation and the drafting of noticeable and successful cover letters. Overall, I highly recommend this book to those individuals in need of a few pointers on presentation and style in CV and resume preparation.

For people who are in academia, you know you need to write a good CV to get a job. This book help you to create a good CV with useful information to your future employer. It also provide some useful information about CV Format, The Model CV, CV Length, CV Content and so on. If you are looking for a professor job, this is a must read.

If you either just happen to be getting out from doing hard time in the big house or have just been fired again from your last of a string of old jobs for showing up drunk or high, and, despite your progressive public (or private) school education in the era of the "Look-Say" method, can actually read a book, this one just might be for you.

In this slender volume with profuse illustration, the authors give sage advice on how to get a job - any job. In the area of improving your luck with job interviews, for example, they advocate: show up on time, bathe, brush your teeth, comb your hair, put on clean clothes and speak only when you are spoken to. Finally, in an air to boost your confidence, after doing all of the above, be sure to take a lucky charm with you.

I'm sure this book will be a top seller in the state-run mandatory employment counseling market as well as to half-way houses, parole officers, social service agencies and the various twelve-step programs in this country.

Not a bad method (and I just outlined it for you) for landing that plum job sacking groceries on your way to a fresh, clean start in middle-aged life.

On the other hand, if you are sober and have a clean police record, in addition to having the disability today of being able to think independently, you will not find answers in this book.

Despite - or, perhaps, because of - one of the author's previous experience writing job manuals for academics, they subscribe to the popular fallacy that you are not your job - that its something apart from you as a person. Excuse me, but unless you are a prisoner against your will in a forced labor camp shovelling corpses into ovens, what you do in life (as well as what you say) does define your character.

If you are tired of only being allowed to do mediocre quality work at best in your current or previous job, work in a highly state-regulated field, one that does not match your sense of integrity, I recommend a positive alternative to spending the seven dollars on this book:

Should you happen to have that amount left over in your bank account after depositing your unemployment check (minus taxes), filled your car with gas and done your laundry; check-out a romantic-heroic movie to watch such as "The Shawshank Redemption", "The Fountainhead", "High Noon", or "Queen Christina." These films will help you to recharge your emotional batteries and to progress in setting new goals to improve your life.