Creating a Resume for the Web

Don't Just Rely on Job Boards

Most people believe that when they create a resume, all they have to think of is posting it on the major job sites and a few minor ones, send it to a few ads and, voila, 15 interviews later the job of their dreams appears.

What if I told you that the major job boards are only filling approximately 7% or 8% of the available positions would I have your attention?

You see the problem with the major job boards is that your resume will only be seen by companies that are willing o spend the tens of thousands of dollars to subscribe to their resume data base.

And the others, like the small and midsized firms that have been driving job growth in the US for the last 20 years are often shut out from seeing it.

So when I speak about putting your resume on the web, I mean posting a search engine optimized resume online that can be found by robots, spiders, crawlers, Google, Talenthook, Infogist (Talenthook and Infogist are tools that search the web and multiple job boards concurrently) and others and not just simply post it on job boards.

So what can you do if you don’t operate a website and want to post your resume?

Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and others will all give you free space to post your resume.

Once it is online, these tools plus my new addition to “The Universe series” of search engine products will allow your resume to be found by anyone.

My new search engine, The Resume Universe (www.theresumeuniverse.com) is a free search tool for everyone. Free to have your resume included in the search results; free for companies to search. After all, do you want your resume to be found by the best company or the best one willing to spend $15000 a year to search?

To have your resume included, email the link to your resume (not the resume, the URL where your resume is) to theresumeuniverse@gmail.com.

I believe this new tool, coupled with my job led search engine Job Search Universe (www.jobsearchuniverse.com) will go a long way toward helping people find work.

Oh yes, if you want to have your resume re-done, contact my friend, Matt Sislowitz at Radical Resumes (www.radicalresumes.com); Matt does great work and is fairly priced

Jeff Altman
The Big Game Hunter
Concepts in Staffing
jeffaltman@cisny.com

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter, is Managing Director with Concepts in Staffing, a New York search firm, He has successfully assisted many corporations identify management leaders and staff in technology, accounting, finance, sales, marketing and other disciplines since 1971. He is a certified leader of the ManKind Project, a not for profit organization that assists men with life issues, and a practicing psychotherapist.

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