How to Post Your Resume Online: Article


This world wide web stuff is great isn't it? Just throw up your resume
or business add online and the employers and clients come to you.....
Errrr but hang on a minute! .....There is a little bit more to posting
your resume online than just throwing up a few lines and a web site or
email address. Today we are going to cover a few tips on what
employers and prospective clients want to see and don't want to see
online...... It is free to post your resume on
http://www.gigdirectory.net Arts and Media Classifieds. ...read on...

Employers and prospective clients have particular tastes. They want to
see you are willing to make the effort and have a professional attitude
before anything else. The easier for them to see that before they
interview you, the easier it is for them to hire you. The following
tips are from companies I have talked to, and tips and comments from
employers and agencies.

1) Put a list of keyword skills at the top of your resume. Employers
will scan those first before considering reading the rest of your
resume. Example I am an event manager and consultant so my keywords
according to my actual skills and experience would be.....

Subject/Title: Event and Festival Management
Discription: Skills: Event and Festival, Logistics, Budget Planning,
Business Development, Creative Direction, Marketing, Recruitment,
Bookings, Mailing Lists, Mac and PC...

(...then my resume would follow on from there)

The first ten words of your online resume should be your keyword skills!
This shortcut's the employer or client's time in seeing you are the
right person/company for them, and makes them want to read the rest of
your resume.

2) Post your contacts at the bottom of the resume, this is another way
the employer will be more intrigued to read your whole resume. Plus it
helps protect your privacy if the general public cannot access your
contacts. (Especially female performers!)

3) Keep your resume to the point and clear, with only the info and
experience for the job category you have posted your resume in. Do not
use superlatives or cryptic type descriptions, keep it intuitive and
straight forward.

4) Don't put stuff on your resume that you haven't done or aren't
qualified for. Employers get pretty annoyed when they find out you
don't have the skills you say you do, and they usually can tell by the
first interview. In the entertainment industry, lack of skills in one
person can and has sometimes killed a whole show and a lot of people's
jobs.

5) Only post your resume once in each category, and then again when your
resume has moved off the page. The Gigdirectgory.net classifieds show 30
resumes per page. Multple listings all at once makes employers skip your
resume more often than not.

6) If posting your web page in the Gigdirectory.net Production Directory
and you have different skills: make a separate page for each skill and
it's virtues/images and post each page separately in the Production
Directory.

7) Do post a photo of yourself, at your work or craft is great, but a
professional recent headshot will do. No school or fuzzy happysnap
photos. All photos must be clear and professional looking. Include a
clear photo or two of productions you've worked on, preferably with you
in it at work.

8) Don't just put three lines and/or a web site. That is rude and makes
the employer think you are not willing to make the effort.

9) Don't put the same resume or web page with the same titles for many
different categories of work you post in. Again you give the impression
of only making minimal effort and it doesn't show the employer that you
are qualified.

11) If applying for a job: Don't apply for a job you are not qualified
for! One of the biggest employer piss offs is students applying to job
adds that has requested an experienced person.

12) If a seasoned professional has not heard of you, you are not a star
in their eyes. Please remember that when writing your resume and
applying for jobs or roles.

Deborah Paulino
gigslist.org
gigdirectory.net

It is free to post your resume on http://www.gigdirectory.net Arts and
Media Classifieds.


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