Digitizing Your Resume
The trickiest part of putting together your digital resume is deciding how much personal information you want to post on the Internet. You need to present your work history in a professional way, but you don’t want to give identity thieves or spammers too much personal information.
Here are a few pointers:
- Don’t include your physical address.
- Consider spelling out your email address (example: “yourname at domain.com” instead of yourname@domain.com).
- Keep to the basics for your job listings: company, job title and tenure. Long job descriptions are distracting.
- Delete your “personal interest” section.
- Try adding a "skills" section to highlight your technological experience.
If you want to post a traditional resume that will be easy for employers to print, create your document in a word processing program and convert the file to a PDF. By doing so, you can control the appearance and integrity of your document. If you don't convert, your formatting may look different on another computer and another user could change the content. Next, you will need to host your PDF resume on your server. Once you have done so, you will be able to create a link to this document on your Blog. See Adding Links and Photos and Print Clips for more information on creating links and PDFs.
Another option is to post the content of your resume directly on your Blog in an "About Me" section. Many writers use one of these sections instead of a traditional resume because potential employers can quickly view their work history without opening or downloading a new document.
Before you start designing your digital resume, take a few minutes to search the Web for examples of what other writers have done.
Sree Sreenivasan lists several examples on his site. Here are a few examples from that page:
Jody Brannon
Karyn Bryant
Borzou Daragahi
Jonathan Foreman
Liz Garone
Amitava Kumar
Barry Lank
Gina Pace
Jennifer Pirtle
Nancy Reardon
Stacee Sledge
Shauna Staveley
Chris Taylor
Rob Walker
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