Posting Your Resume Online


One of the fastest ways to submit your resume to a recruiter is through a resume bank on the internet. In a matter of minutes, your resume can be deposited directly into a company's electronic hands.

When you apply directly to a company's web site, you are frequently asked to post (fill in an "e-form") or to "cut & paste" your resume. Almost all sites have the copy-and-paste option for getting your resume online -- this is the preferable method once you have created and saved your Internet Ready Resume.


PREPARING YOUR RESUME FOR ONLINE POSTING:

• Open MS Word and pull up the document that contains your original resume.
  
  
• Click on FILE in your toolbar and select SAVE AS:
  
  
• Under "File Name," type in a new name for this document (example: Karen's Internet Resume).
  
  
• Under "Save as Type," click on the down arrow to the right and highlight TEXT ONLY.
  
  
• Click on the SAVE button to the right.
  
  
• Now go back to your toolbar and click on FILE and then CLOSE. (**Do not close MS Word.)
  
  
• Click again on your toolbar on FILE and OPEN. Now open the text file that you just named/saved. (**Make sure you open your text document while in MS Word.) You have just completed the initial converting of your resume to a text format. Notice that there is no longer anything fancy on your resume -- it has been stripped of fancy formatting such as bullets, bold, etc. This IS what it is supposed to look like. "It is now fixin' time!"
  
  
• If your resume is more than one page -- delete any page breaks or wording such as "Page 2" or "Continued." Technically, you are making your resume appear as one continuous electronic document.