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Resume Maker Professional Ultimate Review

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Cost

$39.95 for the software.

$24.95 for an upgrade.

Free trial lasting 30 minutes!

Features:

Import previous resume: If you already have a resume, the software allows you to import it rather than start over.

Multiple users: Once purchased, you can create separate accounts for all members of your household.

Compatible with word and adobe.

Reviewer: A professional reviewer that scans and checks your work for mistakes.

Expert advice: At every stage there are insider tips written by experienced professionals, as well as expert advice that can be switched on.

Tailored resume: Facilities to ensure you have the resume that best suits you, with thousands of helpful phrases and examples to help you express yourself advantageously.

Cover letters: Bank of samples and paragraphs to choose from for each situation so that you need only fill in the necessary details to create an attention-grabbing cover letter.

DVD/CD: You can burn your finished portfolio to CD and design a sophisticated cover for an alternative presentation method.

Virtual Interview: More than 500 questions to practice answering using their simulated interviews, as well as the suggested answers and explanations behind them.

Insider Guides: There are 25 'insider guides' and 'career reference handbooks' to peruse.

Video Tutorials: Several interesting tutorials to help you at various stages of your application process.

Negotiation techniques: Proven strategies to help you negotiate for a higher salary.

Publish online: The software comes with the opportunity to publish your resume as a web page for free.

Email: You can email your resumes straight away and they will send in their original, professional format.

Job-searching: You specify the job and the location, and it will instantly scan every major career recruitment site worldwide to find all possible openings.

Resume Caster: The software will, with your permission, send your resume to around 90 top career sites, whilst withholding your personal information to protect your privacy.

Career planner: This helps you to find out what your best qualities are and the career that would therefore best suit you. It also provides career coaching and helps you to create long-term plans.

Contact Manager: This helps you to organize the jobs you intend to apply for and keep track of your applications and any interviews.

Federal Careers: There are special facilities to help you apply for jobs in the government, including all relevant forms.

Business locater: Searches for businesses in your specified industry.

Editor's Verdict:

Whilst Resume Maker Professional Ultimate does contain a few more features than Resume Maker Professional, it is debatable whether it is really worth the extra ten dollars, plus a considerable increase in the payments for updates. However, it is certainly a worthy piece of software, including everything you could need to write an impressive resume and cover letter, or to prepare for your interview and apply for jobs. The Contact Manager will ensure that you keep your applications up-to-date and organized, as well as providing a calendar to prevent you missing any important appointments, so that you needn't worry about what you might have forgotten.

One advantage it has over its sister software is that there is an opportunity to sample the free trial; whilst this only lasts for thirty minutes, it gives a satisfactory overview of what the software contains and is a must for anyone considering a purchase. Be warned though that it can take some time to download, especially on slow connections.

Throughout ResumeMaker, one of our favorite features has been the Interview preparation section, where you can try out virtual interviews, containing over 500 possible questions. It allows you to practice your answers to them, and gives you an ideal response, with the rationale behind it explained. This will allow you to walk into your interview with answers already prepared and feeling far more confident, something that is truly invaluable!

Another aspect of Resume Maker that particularly distinguishes it is the expert advice if offers, including video tutorials, insider tips and step-by-step guides to each part of your resume-building. This is generally written by experienced professionals, and so you can be sure that it will be sound and helpful. This even includes a reviewer to check your resume over for mistakes before you send it off, and a section on negotiation techniques to help you get the salary you deserve.

One of the extra features that is offered by Resume Maker Professional Ultimate is the career planner, which asks you a series of pertinent questions in order to ascertain what career would be best for you. It then lists in order the positions that most closely match your answers, and explains what each entails. This is a useful feature for anyone who wants to try something new, or doesn't know where to start, but it shouldn't necessary be viewed as completely and undeniably accurate!

Resume Maker Professional Ultimate is rather more expensive than its extra features warrant, but still offers peace of mind for anyone who simply doesn't know where to start when applying for a job, or for someone who needs a way of organizing all their contacts, resumes, cover letters and appointments with ease. It gives excellent interview preparation advice and even helps you find out what your ideal career might be, as well as providing expert career advice and the opportunity to create plans that span several years in the future.

If you would like to sample the software with its free trial, or even purchase the whole package, just click on the button below to visit the website ResumeMaker.com!

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