Suggested Reading
All available in the MBA Career Resource Center
Look for them through the reference no.

41.04 - Resumes that Knock'em Dead
Martin John Yate. Adams Media Corporation: USA, 2003
Subject: CVs and Cover Letters

This book contains tips on how to write your resume and more than 130 resume samples (bases on real resumes that got real jobs for real people!) organized alphabetically by jobs: Accounting, Computing, Marketing Analist, IT Consultant, Operations and Executive Project Management, Purchasing manager, ....and many more.  Also resumes for persones changing careers included in the Appendix

41.08 - Killer Consulting Resumes
41.11 - Killer Investment Bank Resumes
WetFeet: USA, 2002
Subject: CV & Cover Letters

At the Career Resource Centre you will find thest two comprehensive resume guides to help you land an interview with a management consulting or investment bank firm. You will learn all you need to know about how to write your resume and cover letter, who you should be thinking about approaching, and how to impress your recruiters. You can find as well real life resume and cover letter reviews

41.23 - Un CV más convincente: aprende a elaborar tu Elevator Pitch
Bill Faust & Michael Faust. Pearson Prentice Hall: Madrid, 2004
Subject: CVs and Cover Letters

This Spanish written book will guide you through the elaboration of your Elevator Pitch. You will see its value, the difference between it and the convencional CV, which information include, how to structure it, its benefits, etc.

41.15 - The Global Resume and CV Guide
Mary Anne Thompson. John Wiley & Sons: US, 2000.
Subject: CV & Cover Letter

"The Global Resume and CV guide" contains information on 40 diferent countries. There are no CV samples, but it carefully indicates which information is needed in the country you are interested in, how to structure the resume, if to write the cover letter by hand or typed, if to include picture or not, etc.

41.03 - Cover Letters That Knock 'em Dead
Martin John Yate. Adams Media Corporation: USA, 2003
Subject: CVs & Cover Letters

This book provides good tips and a large collection of samples classified depending on the occasion (online job postings, newspaper advertisement, responses to potential employers, general broadcast...) and also by position you would like to apply.

41.14 - The Career Change Resume
Kim Issacs & Karen Hofferber
Mc Graw Hill: USA, 2003

This book 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 organised by career goal); valuable, innovative career-change tools and strategies; and solutions to common problems plaguing career-changers.

41.01 - The Perfect Cover Letter
Richard H. Beatty. John Wiley & Sons: USA, 1997
Subject: CVs and Cover Letters

Guide covering all the vital elements of a great cover letter. It shows you how to create highly effective letters. Includes the characteristics of good cover letters, how to prepare them, what to include, what to exclude, general broadcast cover letters, executive search cover letter, advertising response cover letters..etc.

45.05 - Vault Guide to Schmoozing: insider advice on making contacts and building rapport to boost your career
Marcy Lerner et.al.Vault: USA, 2002
Subject: Networking

The book describes Schmozing as "the development of a support system, a web of people you know who you can call, and who can call you, for your mutual benefit and enjoyment." Therefore, this book will help you understand and use schmoozing to find a new job or advance in your career through your contacts.

45.04 - The Networking Survival Guide
Diane Darling. McGraw-Hill: New York, 2003
Subject: Networking

This book will help you set your networking goals, form a strategic plan to reach your goals, indentify and develop potential contacts, follow up on leads and turn them into opportunities, make good things happen to your career and become a resource for fellow networkers.

45.01 - Make your Contacts Count
Anne Baber & Lynne Waymon. AMACOM: New York, 2002.
Subject: Networking

This book shows the technique or strategy for maximizing both the size and quality of your professional network. Readers will learn how to avoid the Top 20 Networking Turn-offs, create a workplace contact map, and build strategic alliances. In addition, they'll master the Six Stages of Networking, as well as how to make the most of corporate events and memberships.