Recent developments in the global economy have sent shockwaves through industries and companies around the world. Whether or not the economic downturn has hurt your employer or your job, it's a good time to take a look at your professional resume and update it or polish it as necessary. These six applications offer resume templates, styling advice, and helpful guidelines to help you develop a resume that impresses your next interviewer.
ResumeMaker Professional Ultimate
This jam-packed resume software is loaded with thousands of samples and templates from a wide range of industries. It also allows users to browse or search millions of available career opportunities. View sample cover letters and create and manage your own quickly and easily. A Virtual Interview feature puts you through the paces before the actual big event.
A nice, compact interface lets you create, edit, and manage your resume, while also searching job listings and creating job-search agents. More of job-search assistant than a resume builder, JobTabs uses a tree-style navigation with Search Agents for various industries and online career resources. Advanced search features let you narrow down your searches, while other tabs provide resume guidance and industry information about necessary training.
More than 25,000 resume and cover-letter templates provide a wide range of styles and formats for nearly any sort of job application. A clean navigation lets you manage your career history and goals and your resumes quickly and easily. A "Get Started" wizard may help reluctant job searchers to get the process rolling, and the career resources section includes an resume knowledgebase for reference.
The software name has strong educational connotations, but the program works for many industries and lets users capture job offers directly through the application. A form-based approach lets users enter all of their work history, personal information, experience, and skills, transforming all of your data into a polished one-page paper. Keyword shortcuts make composing cover letters a breeze.
For users who learn visually, this shareware app uses a multimedia approach to creating and editing your resume. Start out by simply copying and pasting your career information and personal data, decide what sort of jobs you are interested in pursuing, and before you know it, you've got a formatted Word document that should work for many professional job applications.
This online tool lacks some of the fancy features of its downloadable counterparts, but for speed and ease of use, it's hard to beat. Pick from several templates, enter your contact info, experience, qualifications, and skills, and you can quickly print or save a digital copy of a simple, stylish resume. The site is supported by the now ubiquitous Ads by Google and an occasional pop-behind, but there's no upsell, and the site also lets you create six different styles of cover letters.
With the new year under way and the holidays on the back burner, CNET's first big coverage extravaganza of 2008 was CES. The annual Consumer Electronics Show, which runs through the end of this week, was predictably brimming with cool gadgets and new technology. Many of our editors were on hand to give their take on all the sleek new products. Check out our extensive coverage of CES here. Though I was jealous to see all of the cool new items coming out of Las Vegas while I remained in San Francisco, I knew the next week would be the Mac users' turn.
In only a few days, the Macworld expo will once again descend upon San Francisco's Moscone Center, and Steve Jobs will take the stage to announce the latest Apple products. With last years release of the iPhone, this year is sure to be closely watched for the next big thing from Apple. Our very own Tom Krazit's One More Thing blog will have updates on new products, and we're going to have a CNET Macworld landing page (still in the works) for all the latest news from the show floor. One of our editors, Daniel Terdiman, was so excited, he was actually inspired to write some Macworld haiku.
So what's in store for this year's keynote? The speculation has reached a feverish pitch around Mac rumor sites with some people saying we're going to see new slimmer Mac laptops, while others are sure something else even bigger will be released. To add to the excitement (and maybe to remind CES attendees that theirs isn't the only conference in January), Apple released new Mac Pro desktops this week in advance of Macworld. Some rumor sites speculate the early release means Apple has enough great stuff to announce at the keynote that they can afford to let out some big news early. We'll just have to wait and see, but you can bet I'm excited to find out! Make sure to check this space next Tuesday for a breakdown of the new hardware and software releases from the keynote speech.
In other Macworld news, I will be joining the VersionTracker team in booth 4810 in the West Hall, so if you're at Macworld, drop by and say hello! We'll have all the latest news about VersionTracker, MacFixIt, and iPhone Atlas, and we'll have a great show special for new and renewing VersionTracker Pro customers.
The Greener Apple might change the face of the MacBook.
(Credit: CNET Networks)A lot of people I've talked to recently (both Mac and Windows users) have been talking about getting a Mac laptop. It's pretty evenly split between MacBooks and the more expensive MacBook Pros, with some of my friends looking for a portable computer to bring with them for common tasks, while others need that extra processing power for music recording and film editing. Whenever I've been asked about getting a new Apple laptop though, my answer more recently has been the same: wait a little bit longer.
Judging from the rumor mill, Apple may announce new MacBooks and MacBook Pros as early as next week. This will probably mean a significant bump in power for both laptops, but what's getting the most buzz at the rumor sites is the possibility of LED backlit displays. In an effort to listen to the eco-friendly Mac community, Steve Jobs announced that the company is trying to become a Greener Apple. This would fit perfectly with the rumor from DigiTimes (via MacLife), saying Apple has recently certified the "greener" 13.3-inch and 15.4-inch LED panels by Taiwanese companies. So are LED backlit screens on MacBooks much closer than we think? Steve Jobs said that LED screens were definitely coming in the future when discussing the Greener Apple initiative, so this rumor might just turn out to be true.
Clearly, with the possibility of new and better MacBooks and MacBook Pros in the very near future, prospective buyers should wait just a little bit longer. At the very least, the new laptops will probably make the last generation cheaper, so anyone in the market for a MacBook has good reason to see what happens in the near future.
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