How to Format your Resume for Online Submission
Employers today are relying on the internet more and more to recruit employees. Not only do they post jobs on their own websites, they post to services like Monster.com and even Craigslist in search of tech-savvy job applicants.
What does this mean for your job search? Well, your fancy font is not going to come through in a text-box, your special formatting will not scan correctly into your potential employers' searchable database, and your special paper will not attach to an email. How can you make your resume attractive and eye-catching in this new paradigm?
Difficulty: Moderate
Instructions
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Remember: keep it basic. You're going to be emailing this resume, and this resume will undoubtedly be scanned into someone's computer. If you use all sorts of crazy formatting tricks, or unique fonts, your resume will come out looking weird by the time it's been passed around your target company.
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So, Avoid: fancy fonts, images, banners, landscape rather than legal orientation, margins outside the printable range of a page, or designing the resume for colored or imaged stationary.
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Do you know how many resumes this guy has looked at? Do not bore your recruiter with a standard-template resume.Do not use a standard Microsoft Word template. Believe me, the recruiters have seen all of these. Start from scratch, in your word processor, with a blank page.
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The crucial trick here is going to be indenting, using space bar not tabs, and ruthless application of your electronic ruler. Use a few simple font tricks that won't come through when you paste your text, but won't be corrupted into gibberish, either: bold, italics, underline, font size, spacing, and smallcaps.
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Make an Attractive Header. Your header should be your name and contact information. That's it. Your name should be bigger than anything else on the page, bold, and ALL CAPS. Your contact info on the next line should be smaller and include your address, telephone number, and email. Your header should stretch across the page to both margins. Try putting all contact info on one line and "justifying" that line in your word processor.
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Just like in an outline, each subheading should line up precisely, and the information for each subheading should be one more indent inward. Three levels is enough: any more and you're going to lose space on your page. Mark these "levels" on your Word Processor's ruler, and don't forget to use the space bar rather than Tabs.
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Smallcaps make your headlines look interesting and professional.Every subheading should be all caps. To make it look more interesting, highlight all but the first letter of your subheading, go into the font menu, and change it to "small caps". This effect should be duplicated on every "level" you use it on - so if one heading looks like this, make them all this way.
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