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    Resume Tips

    February 12, 2002

    Truth is the first casualty of War, and Loyalty is the first casualty of the Information Economy.

    Estimates are that one out of every ten Employees has their Resume on the Net. This figure is going to skyrocket in the next five years, with some guesstimates ranging over 90%. Employee median tenure is hovering around three years at the National level, and dropping steadily. In effect, all Employees are becoming active Job candidates - their career success depends on it. Neither Employees nor Employers can afford the luxury of loyalty.

    Your Employer will not be concerned that you are always on the lookout for a new Job, because they'll be keeping their eyes open for newer, better, and cheaper Employees to replace you. This means that sooner or later you will have a resume/portfolio/webpage that tells viewers who you are and what kinds of Jobs you are capable of performing. Presently the medium of choice is the online, or emailed, resume. Email resumes should include some of the following items:

    Cover letter (with resume in the same file, or with resume as attachment)

    Explanation of how and where you found out about the Job

    On the Subject Line - Job Req number and Job Title

    Follow up your emailed Resume/Cover Letter with a phone call within one week to check on the status of the Job. If it's been filled, you should see if they could give you a contact for your next target company. At the very least, you need to mentally prepare yourself for the next Job, since this one is a goner. Keep your focus on the real possibilities in your future, not "the Job that got away".

    One of the problems with email resumes is the lack of standardization from one resume to another. Information that can be readily assimilated into a database and then extracted in some usable form is worth its weight in gold. If your resume gets mangled and turned into gobbledygook, then those pretty fonts aren't doing you a bit of good. To avoid these common pitfalls, use the following formatting tips from WebMonkey:

    • Using a standard word processing application, compose a resume as you normally would. Note that plain text format is very basic--it does not recognize formatting such as bullets, bold facing or italicized text. Consider using asterisks (*), plus symbols (+) and capital letters to achieve similar effects. In any case, make sure your resume is legible in the absence of these formatting features.
    • If the word processing application permits, set your margins at 0 and 65 characters (This means that your longest line, including spaces, exceeds 65 characters before wrapping to a new line.) This makes your resume easier to read and, just as importantly, safe to print.
    • Using the "Save" command (or, if you're converting a document from another format, the "Save As..." command), save your document as an ASCII or MS-DOS Text document. Remember to append the .txt extension on to the file name, e.g. "resume.txt"

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