- $39.95 for the software.
- $24.95 for an upgrade.
- Free trial lasting 30 minutes!
- 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.
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.
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