How to Add a Resume to a Job Website

Posting a resume online helps you find a job faster or just keeps your options open to new opportunities. Larger job websites match job opening to your skills and can email you a list of opportunities. Adding a resume to a job website only takes a few minutes, just make sure you put some effort into writing the resume first.

Things You'll Need

• Resume

Instructions

1. Search for jobs on several job websites and start with a few that have the best opportunities. Monster, CareerBuilder and HotJobs are well-known websites that have nationwide job listings. Other websites only post resumes for a specific industry or profession.

2. Write a professional resume for each career path you are interested in pursuing. Employers prefer a resume with only relevant information. More than one resume can be posted on most major job websites.

3. Look at the posting options on the job website. Either build the resume online, copy and paste the document into a field or upload the file.

4. Create an account so you can access your resume, make changes and manage your job search. Enter personal information, a password, previous experience and educational background.

5. Provide other useful information if prompted, such as willingness to relocate, desired income level and target job industry.

6. Decide if you want your resume to be available to the general public. This makes your resume available to employers conducting resume searches. Usually only one resume at a time can be posted to the public.

Tips & Warnings

• Consider having your resume professionally done if this is a first job out of high school or college. The money you spend in the service will be made up if you get a better job for doing that.

• The more complete your resume is, the more information a potential employer will have to look over.

• Check for typos, grammatical errors and that your contact information is correct.

• Beware of posting your resume to the public if you do not want your current employer to know you are job hunting.

Resources

• Visit Monster for more information on posting a resume online.
• Add a resume to the Careerbuilder job website.
• Post a resume at Hotjobs.