The Advantages of an Online Resume

The standard advice for having a good resume are well-known: keep it to one page, keep off irrelevant information or work history, and make yourself look good while remaining truthful. It is, in a sense, a sales pitch about you and how you would be the best man or woman for the job.

But what if there is so much to say about yourself that you couldn’t possibly fit all on to one page while still maintaining a legible font size? Cramming all your qualifications onto a single sheet of paper isn’t always the easiest thing to do, and so we often compromise and simply try to stick to what we feel is the most important stuff.

Is there a better way?

Putting Your Resume Online

There are a couple of ways to get your curriculum vitae online. One method, if you are using a text editor that is capable, is to simply convert it to HTML format and upload it as is. Word processors such as Microsoft Word and Corel WordPerfect are capable of doing this with just a few clicks of the mouse.

But the web has so much more to offer than that! Once online, what you can do with your “self-sales pitch” is limited only by the technology. Imagine adding video of yourself doing a major project to show off your skills or previous employers giving you endorsements, hyperlinks to examples of your work, not to mention the networking you can do with the many social sites out there such as FaceBook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and more.

This is just the beginning. Much of the advice that applies to a regular resume applies to the online world as well. You can make as many different online resumes as you need, each one fully customized to the job you are applying for, just like you would do with a standard paper pitch of yourself.

But what you definitely aren’t limited to is a single 8 1/2 x 11 inch sheet of space.

For more ideas about what you can do, search for “online resume examples” at your favorite search engine.