ELECTRONIC RESUME VS. PAPER RESUME

1. ELECTRONIC RESUME VS.PAPER RESUME

2. INTRO Well over 50% of large and medium organizations are using technologies to scan resumes for only keywords Unlike a paper resume, an electronic resume isn’t made to catch a reader’s eye. Only a computer will see it.

3. USING KEYWORDS Focus on technical and professional areas of expertise, industry-related jargon, and work history. Include the names of organizations of which you are a member. Always be specific. Example, It may be fine to include "computer literate," you also want to list specific software that you are proficient in using.

4. USING KEYWORDS It’s not necessary to have a Keyword Summary at the beginning of a resume if care has been given to using keywords in whole resume. However, it’s recommended it in most cases for the following reasons: Keyword Summary provides an opportunity to include other variations of a keyword that may not fit in the rest of the resume. The more keywords you have, the greater the likelihood of ranking high. Keywords are somewhat subjectively chosen by the resume reviewer — and by the resume author — so it is safer to ensure all possible keywords are covered.

5. PREPARING KEYWORDS FOR YOUR RESUME Take a highlighter to a printed version of your resume. Highlight all of the keywords that you find. These are your keyword hits so far. Make a list of synonyms and all forms and tenses of your existing keywords, e.g., procurement, procured, purchasing, purchased, etc. From this list, and the existing keywords highlighted in your printed resume, create a "Keyword Summary" and place it after your name and address or after the Objective. Use common industry acronyms such as ISO or TCP/IP, but spell out less common abbreviations, or better yet, use both forms. Separate keywords with commas or periods in the Keyword Summary.

8. Convert your Resume to Electronic STEP 1: Create and save your nicely formatted resume using MS Word. STEP 2: Take out underlines, lines, bolds, centering, italics, bullets, indents or special formatting. Use asterisks *'s or hyphens -"s to replace bullets and check all lines carefully for words that have been dropped onto a line by themselves. Highlight text & select Courier 12 and left align your text. (Use courier to make sure letters don’t touch) Double check each line to make sure that it has word wrapped with no extra spaces. Set the page margins at 6.5 inches.

9. Convert your Resume to Electronic STEP 3: Use "save as" command to save the file under a different name as "text only." STEP 4: Open the file using MS Notepad. Put a blank line between your headings and paragraphs to make your skill headings stand out. Check and correct any other errors. STEP 5: Save this file under a different file name with "save as" command. It automatically saves the file as a .txt.

10. Convert your Resume to Electronic(For Scanning) STEP 6: Print the file. Proofread your resume and use the hard copy as your scannable resume. Print scannable resumes on white paper only and only send originals. Send your resume flat in a large envelope. Do not fold or staple it.

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13. ADVICE If an employer gives you a choice of sending in a copy of your text version (scannable) or emailing your resume, choose to email in your resume. If it is already an electronic file, the software can read it easily. If you must send in a scannable resume, send a visual resume in as well, with a post-it labeling each. There are more sophisticated scanning devices now, which are less likely to make mistakes, but these are expensive. So, design your scannable resume to be scanned correctly by both older and newer scanning software.