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On-Line Resumes and Digital Portfolios are growing in popularity and usage as more companies accept applications on-line and communicate in the hyper-connected world.

Here are some fast tips:

1. Build a powerful and impactful resume
2. Build your portfolio
3. For online, write your resume in third person
4. Use your full name throughout the text of your resume so that it’s easily searchable - like a bio.
5. Be comfortable that everyone will see what you have on your resume

Infact, here are some interesting factoids and tips shared from our local Robert Half International

Office:Accountemps Survey on Resumes
March 20, 2007

Resume Length
• According to a survey by Accountemps, a staffing firm with offices here in Midland, it’s becoming slightly more acceptable to have a longer resume than it was 10 years ago.

• 44 percent of executives polled said they prefer two pages, however, the majority still feel a single page is the ideal length.

• One possible reason for the extra length is that many employers desire additional information earlier in the process about the skills and experience of job candidates.

• However, employers’ desire for more detail about candidates’ work histories should not open the door to lengthier resumes.

• In general, less is still more, and the space necessary to accurately convey a candidate’s depth of experience should dictate resume length.

• Employers want to see that applicants can prioritize information and concisely convey their depth of the experience.

Sending Resumes Electronically
• It’s becoming increasingly commonplace to send resumes and other information via email.

• When sending resumes via email, remember that any special or unique formatting will often be lost, making your resume unreadable.

• Tips from Accountemps for adapting your resume and cover letter to a plain text format:
o File Format - Save resume as a “text only” file.
o Line Length - To avoid wrapping the line prematurely, set the page width at 4-3/4″ and save the file as “Text with Line Breaks” to put a hard return at the end of each line.
o Vertical Alignment - To achieve an equal number of spaces from the left-hand margin, convert all the text to 10-point Courier or another fixed-width font.
o Design - Use characters such as dashes (-), asterisks (*) and arrows to highlight information. Do not use bold, italics, columns and bullets; they do not translate well to plain text format.

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