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How to Post Your Resume Online
Posting your resume online can help access valuable resources and find your next job. Resume posting can increasing your chances of being seen by potential employers.
Tip: The resume you post online should be the same as your print resume.
A well-prepared resume should contain keywords so that a potential employer can easily find you though an online search.
Resume Versions to Prepare
Keep updated versions of your resume in each of the following formats:
A Print Version, designed with bulleted lists, italicized text, and other highlights, ready to print and mail or hand to potential contacts and interviewers.
A Plain Text Version, a plain text file ready to copy and paste into online forms or post in online resume databases. This might also be referred to as a Text-Only copy.
An E-mail Version, another plain text copy, but this one is specifically formatted for the length-of-line restrictions in e-mail. This is also a Text-Only copy.
TIPS:
Spell-check: Preparing your resume in advance using your own word processing program allows you to spell-check your resume and revise it as needed until you are happy with it.
Format: Most online forms and builders insist on a chronological resume, which focuses on work history.
Reusability: If you build it in their database using their form, you've done a lot of work for only one site, which means you will have to repeat your effort for every database you encounter. Prepare it in advance on your own computer and you have it to use as much as you like.
Present yourself in your resume presents that creates an image you want employers to see.
Respond to Internet job listings is to e-mail your cover letter and resume to the person or organization indicated.
You have 15 or 20 seconds to get someone's attention using email.
Use the right Subject.
Use the job title or job code cited in the advertisement.
"cold calling" an employer, state your objective in the Subject line
Include a cover letter in your email and address it to the recipient.
Always send your resume in the body of the e-mail message, not as an attachment.
Make sure your resume is properly formatted for e-mail. Plain text resumes not formatted for email can be unreadable, and unreadable resumes will most likely be deleted.
If responding to an advertisement, read the application instructions and follow them.
Steps
1. If you don't have a resume yet, create one
2. Update your resume so that it is better formatted to be posted online.
3. Convert your resume to a text-only document
4. Update the words and phrases in your resume so that your resume can be search online
5. Keep a Word format to upload the .doc version.
6. Create a resumes for each type of job you would consider.
7. Create a cover letter that makes more sense to an employer who finds you online.
Target the big job boards first:
Monster
The more job boards you are on, the higher your chances of being found by your future employer.
Many career boards have what they call a Resume Builder and/or a Paste your Resume section. To fill out a job board's resume builder section, you'll need to gather your job history, your education information and skills from out of your resume and type them in separately.
For each job, list:
- The name of the company you worked for.
- Your start and end date.
- What your job responsibilities were.
- Your major accomplishments at that job.
Take advantage of the free tools that a lot of the job boards offer when you post your resume on their site.
The majority of the job boards ask you to paste a text-only resume. When a job board asks you to paste your resume, don't paste from an HTML or Microsoft Word formatted resume. Save your resume as a .txt file, open it in Notepad and format the spacing as follows:
Don't try to center or right-align text. This formatting will be lost and won't look the way you'd like it to. Left-align all text.
Since you won't be able to use bold, underline, or italics, you can still make things look nice by
CAPITALIZING section headings and using blank lines between sections.
Put one or two blank lines between each job in your job history, then put just one carriage-return after each line of data.
Consider using a professional resume writer or contacting your local Independent Living Centre.
Contact the Better Business Bureau about any sites you are going to post your resume.
Things you will need
- Your resume
- Your cover letter
- Access to a computer with Internet access
- An email address (preferably a separate one you don't use for anything else)
- Time (5-30 minutes for each site you post your resume to)
- You will also need a computer.
