Best Resume Programs

There are lots of useful resume creation programs available for you to use, and even in comparison to the best UK writing services these programs can give you excellent results. Resumes are the first step in landing a job interview and getting employed, and if the content, the layout and the style are not good enough, yours will quickly be thrown aside. But with a good program like the ones listed below in this Top Programs review, you can stop this from happening and give yourself the best chance of getting employed.

Free Resume Builder

Description: Free Resume Builder has been used by thousands of people and has helped them with their employment success. It comes with the latest preset resume formats to help you meet the employer’s expectations, and simplifies much of the formatting process. You just enter your information and then use the program to generate a great-looking resume. This software is in-line with all the latest resume trends.

License: No license required.

OS / Requirements: Resumes are provided in the .doc or .pdf formats and can be opened with any application that is compatible with these file types.

JobTabs Free Resume

Description: JobTabs is a great resume maker, but it is also much more than just a resume maker. It is a powerful program which allows you to organize your job search and increase your efficiency. Customize different resumes for each different job application and cut out the repetitive work with a simple and easy to use program with a clean interface and a huge set of control options. A bonus to this program is that it offers word processor capabilities and yet is not dependent on MS Word and you don’t need to have MS Word installed.

License: No License required.
OS / Requirements: JobTabs can be run on Windows 8, Windows 7, Vista and XP.

Career Igniter Resume

Description: Career Igniter is a free resume creator service that makes it extremely easy to build a resume. You only have to follow the step-by-step instructions present on the website, though your contact information, objectives, education, certification, work experience and skills, before a pristine resume is sent to you. Career Igniter also offers a cover letter builder, a job search engine and a career test application. With career test you can understand the most suitable career-path to take.

License: There is no license.

OS / Requirements: Everything is done online. The service works on all major internet browsers.

Resume Make Professional Ultimate

Description: Resume Maker Professional Ultimate is what you should use if you want to ensure the highest levels of quality. It is a fully-featured program with all the design tools you need to create the perfect design, and lots of different resume resources to make the content of your resume as good as possible. There are over 50 award-winning resume samples, professionally-written phrases, import options and export options in a variety of formats including .pdf. Resume Maker Professional Ultimate also comes with job search tools and interview training tools to help you search for new jobs, practice for interviews and much more.

License: Resume Maker Professional Ultimate costs $39.99 for the full license.

OS / Requirements: This program is compatible with Windows operating systems from Windows 2000 onwards. Physical computer requirements are minimal.

Power Resumes 8

Description: From clean, basic resumes in chronological format to fun and exciting resumes in unique customized formats, Power Resumes 8 is a smart resume builder that offers you many different options and fun ways to stand out from the crowd. It can also be used to create business cards and labels, as well as edit photos and videos. The Contact Manager lets you manage all the information that is important to your job search so you can track your progress from a single convenient location. Good things are the sample resume templates, which are based on the best formats for differing job roles and professions. This program does offer as many formatting tools and editing features as some of the other programs listed, but it still works very well in creating attractive and effective resumes.

License: Power Resumes 8 costs $13.95 for the full license

OS / Requirements: This program requires Windows 2000 or higher. Internet is required when publishing to the web.

Summary

It is very easy to create an excellent resume by yourself with these programs. They improve results by guiding you through the resume creation process one step at a time, and make all of those trickier aspects much easier to manage. Some create truly professional results with almost zero effort

How Do I Remove Icons From The Notification Area?

This is a common misconception about how the notification area in Windows 7 works, and unfortunately Microsoft’s terminology doesn’t make it any clearer. Icons actually only show up in this area if that program is currently running, so the only sure-fire way to prevent an icon from appearing in the notification area is to turn it off and then prevent it from opening again on startup. If there are programs that you don’t want to appear in this area, such as “noisy” software that is constantly giving you pop-up notifications, you may have already tried to hide the icon by clicking the “customize” link.

In this window is an option to change any program’s setting to “hide icon and notifications.” Unfortunately this setting isn’t what it appears to be at first. Rather than stopping the icon from appearing in the notification area, it “hides” the icon by moving it off the Start bar directly and into the pop-up window that only appears when you click the arrow icon. Obviously this doesn’t actually prevent the icon from appearing in the notification area.

If you don’t want an icon to show up, and don’t want to see its various pop-up notifications, your only remaining option is to completely shut it down. Click the arrow icon in the notification area to bring up the full list of “hidden” icons. Right-click the icon you want to remove and choose “exit” to close down the program.

In some cases the icon may not give you the ability to shut down the program by right-clicking. In this instance, you’ll need to press “Ctrl,” “Alt,” and “Delete” at the same time and then click “Start Task Manager.” Navigate to the “Processes” tab and locate the name of the program. Click the program’s name and then click the “End Process” button at the bottom of the window.

The program will likely just start up again automatically when you restart your computer, however. To keep this from happening, navigate to the Start bar and type the word “msconfig” into the search box.

Navigate to the “Startup” tab positioned at the top of the window between the “Services” and “Tools” tab. Scroll through the list of programs and locate the program you just shut down. Remove the check mark in the box positioned to the left of the program’s name, and then click the “Apply” button at the bottom of the window.

Restart your operating system to save the change and prevent the icon form appearing in the notification area.

How To Speed Up Windows

Every now and again Microsoft makes a popular operating system that sticks around for a while. First there was Windows 95, then XP, and now finally Windows 7.

No, Window’s 8 “the ocho” didn’t make the list. The reviews explain why.

I have yet to come across anyone who says they really like WIN 8 including social media friends, salesmen at computer stores, and family members.

The number one complaint is the START MENU and the fact that it’s gone, kaput, adios.

As a matter of fact, if you want to speed up your windows installation and you are using Windows 8 the first step is to get your start menu back.

Read Amit Banerjee’s article Bring back The Classic Windows 7 Start Menu in Windows 8.

Why is your PC so slow?

Before you can increase the speed of your system the first thing you need to understand is what will cause it to slow down in the first place.

A computer can only complete or “compute” a certain amount of tasks (memory) at a certain speed (processor).

When your computer has more programs running than memory or RAM and it can’t processes it fast enough a bottleneck effect happens causing your computer to slow down and freeze up.

If you remember when your computer was brand new the same thing would happen when you opened too many programs.
This is the issue.
Your computer has too many programs running or a few really greedy programs that are hogging all its resources.

STEP #1 – Check for virus infections.

The biggest issue with running too many programs is the fact that YOU didn’t necessarily open these programs or even install them.

Viruses are programs that use your computer’s processor power and memory to serve their own nefarious purposes.

If you ever have issues of a computer performing slowly the first thing to check for is viruses.

Read Randal Schaffer’s post: The Anti-Virus Story

Read Lori’s post: All About Rootkits.

STEP #2 – Stop the greedy programs.

Now that you are sure your system has no viruses like spyware and root kits it’s time to put an end to these greedy programs that are using up your computer resources.
CLICK START > RUN > now type “MSCONFIG” and click ok or hit enter:

When the system configuration utility opens you will notice it’s set to Normal Startup as below:

Change the radio button to Selective startup as below with all three check boxes selected:

Now click the Startup TAB.

You will see a list of all the programs that run when your system starts.

I recommend clearing all boxes except for your antivirus software:

When you are finished clearing the check boxes click OK.
You may be prompted to reboot so go ahead and restart your system.
Then repeat this process again by opening the system configuration utility.
If you notice the same programs are starting up uninstall these programs using the control panel utility.
READ Rita Wood’s article: Uninstalling a Stuck Program

STEP #3 – Stop the sneaky programs.

Some programs are running on your system and they aren’t too GREEDY so they don’t get noticed. However, collectively these programs are hurting your system performance.
They are a little bit more difficult to stop because they are sneaky, here’s how to shut them down.

Open the task manager.

Click START > RUN > type taskmgr and click ok or press enter.

The task manager utility provides a real time view of your system’s performance. The objective is to identify unnecessary programs that are running and uninstall them from your system.
Click the Processes tab and resize the window so that you can see more information on each column:

Scroll down the list and check if there are any non critical programs running.

For example in the image above EXCEL.EXE and WINWORD.EXE are running and this is OK because I opened these programs.

You can also use the DESCRIPTION column to get more info about the processes.

When in doubt don’t just remove the program, search Google for the process name and you’ll find additional information on if the program is critical or not. For example SearchIndexer.exe is a program identified as the Microsoft windows search indexer, so I don’t need to bother with it. Investigate every single process and you will find tons of opportunities to lessen the load of your system.

In the beginning you want to focus on the 3^rd party software that has been added to your system, but it’s a good idea to review all processes to be thorough. The end result will be a faster, cooler running Windows system that’s not always dragging and a happier you.