Resume Websites: Market Yourself

Make sure that your resume website is not simply a carbon copy of your print resume. Include new information that potential employers will not see on your resume so they will not feel as if they just wasted their time.

Include a personal statement (much like a cover letter, only slightly different) on the page. Use this space to tell a little about yourself that would be relevant to a job. List your qualities in detail, such as being a fast learner which helped you finished the workplace training program at your last job four months sooner than any other employee, and within 6 months, you were employee of the year. On your resume, you may have just listed that you are a quick learner, but on your website, you can (and should) say much, much more.

Include a video so the employer knows how well you carry yourself and sees your impressive communication skills. Do not read your resume word-for-word in your video. Your website will support your resume, and your video should support your website. Save a little extra for the video that you have not said on your resume or your resume website. Keep your future employers wanting to click on everything else to learn just a little more each time.

Condense information that is currently on your resume. While some employers may have stumbled upon your resume website without having your resume in hand, the odds are probably minimal. Even if this does happen, your resume website will still include enough information for the employer to ask for more information through your contact information. This advice keeps redundancy to a minimum while allowing you to protect your sensitive information from identity thieves.

Examples of the condensed information are as follows: use your middle initial instead of your full name, state your degree without the university or graduattion year, leave the dates off previous employment, use an email address that does not include your full name, use a P.O. Box instead of your home address, and use a mobile phone number or other untraceable phone number. Any sensitive information may be obtained by the employer if requested, but is unnecessary on a publicly viewed resume website.

While personal information may be tempting to include, such as how many cute little children you have, leave this information for water cooler conversations after you have been hired. Keep your resume website as professional as you would your printed resume. You are selling an image, and employers like to see professionals.