1992-94 Maternity leave and family management -- or

　　Travel and study -- or Full-time student -- or

　　Parenting plus community service

　　9. What if you have several different job objectives you''re working on at the same time? Or you haven''t narrowed it down yet to just one job target?

　　Then write a different resume for each different job target. A targeted resume is MUCH, much stronger than a generic resume.

　　10. What if you have a fragmented, scrambled-up work history, with lots of short-term jobs?

　　To minimize the job-hopper image, combine several similar jobs into one "chunk," for example:

　　1993-1995 Secretary/Receptionist; Jones Bakery, Micro Corp., Carter Jewelers -- or

　　1993-95 Waiter/Busboy; McDougal''s Restaurant, Burger King, Traders Coffee Shop.

　　Also you can just drop some of the less important, briefest jobs. But don''t drop a job, even when it lasted a short time, if that was where you acquired important skills or experience.

　　11. What''s the best way to impress an employer?

　　Fill your resume with "PAR" statements. PAR stands for Problem-Action-Results; in other words, first you state the problem that existed in your workplace, then you describe what you did about it, and finally you point out the beneficial results.

　　Here''s an example: "Transformed a disorganized, inefficient warehouse into a smooth-running operation by totally redesigning the layout; this saved the company thousands of dollars in recovered stock."

　　Another example: "Improved an engineering company''s obsolete filing system by developing a simple but sophisticated functional-coding system. This saved time and money by recovering valuable, previously lost, project records."