This book is designed to help you diagnose resume problems, covering 50 of the most common and most significant resume blunders.
It is also intended to help you fix those issues by covering issues with a resume's focus, content flaws, formatting flaws, strategy errors, and the mistakes that prevent a resume from being correctly "read" by employers' Applicant Tracking software.
Katharine (Kathy) Hansen, Ph.D., creative director and associate publisher of Quintessential Careers, is an author and instructor, in addition to being a career expert. Her book Dynamic Cover Letters has sold more than 100,000 copies.
Having completed a rigorous credentialing process with Career Thought Leaders, Katharine has earned the designations Credentialed Career Manager and Master Resume Writer, the ninth practitioner worldwide to earn the Master Resume Writer title. The Master Resume Writer designation places Hansen in an elite group of career practitioners who are committed to professionalism and dedicated to continuous learning. She is one of an exclusive group of career professionals to hold both of the Alliance's Credentialed Career Manager and Master Resume Writer designations.
In more than six years as a college professor, Katharine taught the writing of resumes and cover letters and critiqued the job-search correspondence of countless college students. Katharine also is editor of QuintZine, a free career and job-hunting newsletter filled with timely and topical tips for springboarding careers.
Katharine holds a doctoral degree in organizational behavior from Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, OH.
Katharine was writer-editor at numerous newspapers, magazines and nonprofit organizations, and she served as speechwriter for the first woman elected to the Florida Cabinet. Katharine, who earned her bachelor of arts degree in humanities from Stetson University, lives in Kettle Falls, WA, with her writing partner, Randall.