New Techniques for Submitting Résumés

Today, job seekers that understand the new techniques and technologies being used with regard to submitting résumés have a distinct advantage over their less informed competitors. If you don’t already know, it’s time to learn how, Optical Scanners, E-mail, and the Internet place new demands on your résumé and how you should prepare to meet these new demands. Learn how Keyword and Background Summaries have become more important in your résumé structure than the traditional objective statement.

The main advantage of the increased use in these new techniques and technologies for you is that these new methods are the fastest way to get your resume into the hands of the hiring managers. Your electronic version can also be left in cyberspace and work for you 24 hours a day.

The main advantage for employers is obviously the greater efficiency in organizing and conducting queries on the numerous résumés submitted and entered into their databases to find the best matches for the job openings.

E-mail, the internet, news groups, and most résumé job banks and databases require that your résumé be in a basic text format without the formatting enhancements. Once you’ve mastered the traditional paper résumé, you can add a plain text (ASCII) version and/or a hypertext résumé to your job searching strategies. It’s not as difficult as you may think.

There are numerous opportunities to present your résumé to potential employers through the use of the Internet and there are actually three ways to do this. You can:

• send your résumé through the mail in a scannable form, or e-mail your résumé as a generic computer file, which are then put into a company’s résumé database,
  
  
• post your résumé in a news group, and/or in job bank services on the Internet,
  
  
• and/or develop a multimedia résumé or professional website, (if you are a computer programmer, web page developer, graphics designer, artist, dancer, actor, model, animator, cartoonist or anyone that would benefit by the use of photographs, graphics, animation, sound, color or movement), which is then available via the Internet.