Here are seven great websites and services that you can use
to host your resume online and make your qualifications searchable for
prospective hirers.
1. Your Personal Blog
If you own and manage your own blog, it’s as good a place as
any to host your resume. Not only is it easily searchable, but it also allows
employers to see you as a proactive citizen of the Internet that creates their
own content as well. This is especially helpful if your blog is related to the
niche that you are interested in finding a job in. Stumbling on to your blog
after finding your resume online shows employers that you have enough expertise
in this field to operate a blog related to it.
2. LinkedIn
Easily the most popular and effective social media site for
business professionals, LinkedIn provides you with a great opportunity to not
only present your qualifications, but to network as well. Not only can you post
your resume here for all to see, but you can also receive recommendations and
words of praise from former co-workers or employers that will be visible to everyone
as well. Another great thing about LinkedIn is that once you have perfected the
look of your resume, you can actually export it as a PDF to use as a hardcopy
or to use when creating resumes on other sites as well.
3. PeopleJar
If you are looking for a site that allows you maximum
self-promotion online, this is the one. This relatively new social media site
allows you to not only host your resume, but also a portfolio and samples of
your work that you would like the world to see. It also allows you to network
professionally in a similar way that LinkedIn does. PeopleJar’s resume builder
gives you a very concise and clean-looking resume and allows you to add various
media to your profile and resume in order to enhance it.
4. Resume.com
This is a dedicated site for resume building and hosting.
You will be able to create a sleek and engaging resume and make it publically
available. You can also use the site to search for potential jobs. The
simplicity of the site and the resume creation and hosting process is what
makes this website favorite for both job seekers who are fresh out of college
and experienced professionals.
5. Visual CV
One really great thing about this website is that it allows
you to import your resume from LinkedIn in order to get started. There are many
different templates to choose if you are looking to make your resume stand out
from the crowd, and there are also great options for including various
multimedia in your resume and portfolio to spice it up. There are many
companies using Visual CV to attract new employees, so it’s definitely a good
place to network as well.
6. About.me
This site is like a more sophisticated, grown and
professional Myspace. It allows you to include just about anything you want
about yourself, giving the opportunity to make a creative online resume and
multidimensional portfolio on your profile. It also gives you statistics on how
many people are viewing your profile and when they are doing so, which lets you
know if some of the changes that you made are working to attract new visitors.
7. My Resume Online
My Resume Online is a great option for people who want a
minimal and very straight-laced design with no strings attached. This site
gives you the option to create a minimalist, but effective resume with the option
of including pictures and attached PDFs into your online resume as well. Most
importantly, you’ll have a very searchable and effective URL in the form of
www.myresumeonline.org/yourname or something similar, which will make it easy
to find you on Google.
Contributed by
Mrs. Kanchan Desai Parab
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