Electronic Résumés

Many recruiting firms and corporations are storing résumés electronically so that they are easier to search and retrieve. This means that you need to put your résumé into an electronic format or, at the very least, into a format that is readily scannable. It also means that where you had to previously accent action verbs (i.e. implemented, directed, etc.), now you need to accent nouns (i.e. industry keywords such as Microsoft Office, telecommunications, etc.).

Consider producing 2 versions of your résumé: a "readable" version that looks good visually and a "scannable" version that employs the following rules:

Résumé Verbs

Achieved, Adapted, Administered, Advised, Advocated, Analyzed, Applied, Approved, Arranged, Assisted, Attained, Authorized, Budgeted, Calculated, Coached, Composed, Conceived, Conducted, Consulted, Coordinated, Counseled, Created, Decided, Defined, Demonstrated, Designed, Developed, Devised, Directed, Discovered, Documented, Edited, Enforced, Enhanced, Established, Evaluated, Executed, Expanded, Facilitated, Forecasted, Founded, Generated, Guided, Handled, Identified, Illustrated, Implemented, Improved, Initiated, Installed, Instituted, Instructed, Introduced, Led, Maintained, Managed, Mediated, Motivated, Negotiated, Organized, Persuaded, Prevented, Produced, Recommended, Reorganized, Researched, Secured, Selected, Simplified, Solved, Stabilized, Strategized, Streamlined, Strengthened, Structured, Succeeded, Supervised, Trained, Verified

Online Résumé Building Resources

Resumail - "A free program that helps you assemble a résumé and send it over the Internet to companies who are members of the Resumail Network. Put your résumé together with this user-friendly program (complete with a spell-checker), and then go to the Resumail Web page to look for prospective employers. When you find a company and job you're interested in, click a button and your résumé is sent, with all formatting intact.

The program's documentation gives you tips for creating a better résumé, which will be of interest to anyone looking for a new job. While the program is intended mainly for submitting résumés over the Web, there's no reason why you can't use it to print out professional-looking, paper résumés to submit to any company."

Seeing2020 Online Résumés - Lets you post your résumé directly to the Internet for $5 per year. Unlike résumé databases, you get your own URL (http://seeing2020.com/yourname.html), and free promotion (they will submit your page to search engines).