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Finding a high-tech job - Part 3
John Smiley
02.08.2001
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Finding a high-tech job -- Part 3
In my last tip, I listed some popular job-finding Web sites, and I
promised to discuss how to write a resume to post online and the pros
and cons of doing so.
There are probably as many resume-writing Web sites as there are job-
finding Web sites, and they're all loaded with good advice, just search
for ?resume+online? in any search engine and you'll get dozens of
sites. I can summarize, in one word, the advice that these sites will
give you when writing your resume -- keywords.
In the past, those writing resumes were advised to include lots of
action verbs. Resume search engines aren't looking for verbs -- they're
looking for keywords to help match candidates with positions, and
Keywords are generally nouns. You should load up your online resume
with as many nouns as you reasonably can, but don't go to extremes as
some of my students have. Remember, if the resume search engine matches
you with a job position, a human being will ultimately read your resume
and it better make sense.
The pros of posting a resume online? They are countless. More and more
companies are searching for, and finding their candidates, online.
These days, if you don't have a resume posted online with one of the
major job-finding Web sites, it's a tremendous opportunity lost.
The cons of posting a resume online? There are several.
First, if you currently have a job, and you post your resume on-line,
there's nothing to prevent your resume from being seen by your current
employer and this can make things very uncomfortable for you, to say
the least. Always date your resume. If two years from now your current
employer sees your resume online, you can always explain you posted it
when you were at your former job.
Secondly, there have been stories about headhunters finding attractive
resumes on-line, and marketing them to potential employers, hoping to
cash in on a lucrative finder's fee. This practice can set up a big
conflict of interest (through no fault of your own) if the resume
search engine matches you up with an employer to whom your resume has
been sent via a head hunter. It could even cost you a job. For that
reason, include with your resume some wording that forbids unauthorized
transmission of your resume by headhunters.
Take a look at "How to find a job - Part 1"
and
"How to find a job - Part 2"
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Written by John Smiley, MCP, MCSD and MCT, author, and adjunct
professor of Computer Science at Penn State University in Abington,
Philadelphia University, and Holy Family College. John has been
teaching computer programming for nearly 20 years.
John Smiley is president of Smiley and Associates,
http://www.johnsmiley.com/smass/smass.htm a computer consulting firm
located in New Jersey.
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