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Tips For Submitting Your Resumé Online
By: Samira Belmekki
Electronic resumés are an essential tool for both job seekers
and employers in today's job market. These days, more and more
employers are asking candidates to submit their resumés online.
An effective E-resumé will get you to the next step in the
hiring process. There are some key things you should know about
submitting your resumé to comply with different software
programs that employers may be using. Here are some general tips
for submitting your online resumé.
Follow Instructions - Submit your resumé in exactly the form
that the prospective employer requests.
Email Address - Always include your email address and keep it
professional. Don't send an email from "cutie_pie@anyemail.com"
or an email with too many numbers like "email00123@anyemail.com"
because it will probably be filtered and then deleted as spam.
The Subject Line - When responding to an advertisement, use the
job title or job code cited in the advertisement. Refrain from
putting punctuation in the subject line, don't use capitalized
words in the subject and don't use the words used by spammers,
like "free," "great offer" etc. These are all "spam" alerts.
Use Keywords - Employers seeking applicants are relying more on
computers to manage and filter applicants' resumés. Incorporate
key words right from the employer's job description so companies
using keyword screening will shortlist your resumé for human
scrutiny.
Make your resumé scanner-friendly - Save your resumé in a
text-editing program such as Notepad for Windows. Plain text
(.txt) resumés are coded in ASCII (American Standard Code for
Information Interchange) This is one of the most popular file
formats and can easily be read by different computers across the
Internet.
Remove graphics, they confuse scanners - Avoid Bullets, use
asterisks (*) instead, by the same token refrain from using
underlined text, different font sizes and styles, italics,
graphics, lines, borders, columns/tables.
Save resumé File Under Your Name - Don't save your resumé file
as "resumé .doc", use your name as the title of your resumé
file, e.g., "Barbara Smith, Web Marketing Professional" Protect
your resumé - Keep your Word resumé from being changed by making
it a read-only document.
2004 © Samira Belmekki. All rights reserved.
About the author:
Samira Belmekki is President and Founder of ForHerSuccess.com -
Career and Job Resources for Women. For more information please
visit http://www.forhersuccess.com
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