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Posting Resumes Online

1. Be aware of privacy issues. If you are currently working and your employer does not know you are job searching, posting your resume online may be risky; you never know what employers may be viewing your resume. If this is your situation, think it through carefully before you take your job search to a more public setting such as an online resume database.

2. It is possible to pay a service to post your resume to hundreds of resume databases. I'm not a big fan of these services. Some resume databases are better than others, and when you subscribe to one of these services, you lose control over where your resume is being sent. Ideally, your job search should be more about quality than quantity. Post your resume to one or two high quality, well known resume databases and keep your profile up to date.

3. Revise your resume from time to time. Employers often check the date the resume was posted and avoid contacting anyone whose resume has not been recently updated. They assume those people are not longer job searching. Go into your account every 3-4 weeks, make a small, insignificant change to your resume and re-save it. That way, the date on your posted resume will be current and employers will stay interested.

4. Create an alternate email address separate from your primary email address that you use for job search purposes only. That way you can keep yourself organized and know that all email coming to that account is related to your job search, and you can keep any unwanted emails from coming to your regular email account.

5. Fill your resume with industry related keywords. Employers search for online resumes by using specific keywords that describe the skills or qualifications they are seeking. Be sure to fill your resume with all of the important keywords in your industry. If a skill or qualification is commonly stated in more than one way, such as, a Masters in Business Administration is often called an MBA, be sure to use both forms of the word or phrase on your online resume.

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