Posting Your Resume Online
by Angela Loëb
Recently, I helped a client with his resume, and he followed up with a question about where he should post his resume online.
My response:
Well, I will answer your question about posting your resume online but with full disclosure – I’m not a big fan of doing that. Only because it opens you up to “spammers,” but if you’re okay with that, then you should definitely post to Monster.com, Careerbuilder.com and Jobing.com.
I must admit that I’m biased toward Jobing.com. I’m a community blogger for them and have interviewed their regional director in the past for the internet radio show I co-host [click here to hear “Technology Tools for Today’s Savvy Job Seeker”]. Besides liking them personally, I like them professionally as well… because they’re more regionally focused and because they offer job seekers a ton of interactive tools on their website. They also have a great feature called JResume, in which you can get your own website URL for your resume. You can use the URL however you’d like during your job search to share your resume: http://austin.jobing.com/free-resume-builder
One final thought regarding putting yourself out there online… I would strongly recommend developing a stellar LinkedIn profile (based on your new and improved resume). That is if you haven’t done so already.
2 extra tips on getting started with LinkedIn:
1. LinkedIn offers a free webinar weekly – go to http://learn.linkedin.com/training/ to learn more. That should help you get you up and running if you don’t have one.
2. And a great page of information on their website dedicated specifically to helping job seekers use LinkedIn for job hunting. Go to the Learning Center and look under User Guides>Job Seekers or use this link: http://learn.linkedin.com/job-seekers/.
3 things to know & do when posting your resume online:
1. Set up a special email just for your job search (a good idea even if you’re not going to post your resume online) so you avoid getting spam mixed in with personal emails.
2. Since you can’t modify your resume to target individual opportunities, post a version of your resume designed to attract the ideal job to yourself. (Same goes for your LinkedIn profile, by the way!)
3. Be prepared to field calls and emails from third-party, external recruiters as well as internal recruiters. (For more information about working with external recruiters, you should check out my 3-part series on the subject - click here.)