Confident in her excellent qualifications and skills, she said goodbye to the job she had and good riddance to the boss who made her life miserable.

However, that job looked pretty good when, after one month…two months…three months, no serious job offers had come her way.

She drew down on savings, reluctantly canceled her gym membership, came up with excuses for not meeting her friends for dinner, and made choices she had never made before…such as deciding between two need-to-haves.

She began to doubt she had any skills and started to panic, wondering how long she could keep up the pretense to her family and friends and even herself that everything was – or would be – okay.

In fact, there was nothing wrong with Robin’s skills or experience. It never occurred to her that her own resume was sabotaging her chances of getting an interview.

I’m Jeff Kontur. As a past hiring manager for companies like Citibank and Laidlaw, I’ve looked at thousands of resumes over 8 years of having them submitted to me.

I’ve moved countless ones to the bottom of the pile, and some to the top…and after a while, I began to realize there were patterns to those movements.

When friends began to ask for help with their resumes, I took those patterns to help me make the changes that enabled those resumes to attract attention and keep it there.

Finally, I decided to put all that I had learned, all the tips, all the tricks, all the savvy into a 95-page course called Your Amazing Resume.

After I had pointed out to her the first major error, Robin got the book and went through it, cover to cover, to find the other six — and every last…