How to Make a Resume Online to Send to Job Listings
Many companies prefer to receive resumes online, rather than through the mail. Some companies will only accept resumes online. This helps eliminate paper waste, and it makes it easier for employers to keep track of all the resumes that are submitted for an open position. It's important, if not essential, that you learn to make your resume online to send to job listings.
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Decide how you're going to send your online resume. You can send it as the text of an email, attach it to an email message, or submit it through an online job board, such as Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com, or a specific company's job board. You may also be able to send it through a job board as an attachment.
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Type your resume out in a Microsoft Word document. Be sure to include your name and contact information at the top of the resume.
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Make sure all the sections are left justified. Put spaces between all your headings, and replace bullet points with either a star symbol (*) or dash (-) if you plan to send your resume as the body of an email or to copy and paste it directly into a job board's resume section.
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Format your resume however you wish if you're sending it as an attachment in an email or through a job board. This means you can center-align certain content, use bullets and space out the sections appropriately. Once your resume is complete, you can send the Word document online as an attachment.
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Click "Acrobat" from the top menu of your Word document if you want to create a PDF document. Click "Create PDF," and save your resume in the appropriate place on your computer. This will create the PDF document that you can send online.
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