If you are presently unemployed or searching for better prospects,
forget pounding the streets, the place to start your next job search is in cyber space,
the only medium to cast your net wide !, and the fastest way to make contact with a
potential employer or a placement agency.
Job consultants,
career
counseling agencies and many multinationals even in India have now begun
recruiting through the Internet and encourage candidates to post their resume on
line.
Applying online means your resume is there for any number of headhunters to
scan and choose.
Like many job seekers, you may want to include a link in
your web resume to a personal web page, where you can post detailed information about your
career, so create your own home page on any of the free home page sites to put up your CV.
An HTML-coded resume can be posted as a web page.
If you have your CV hosted on the web, while applying for a job you can provide a link to
it, but not before giving a brief detail to get the employer interested enough to click on
it to see the rest of it.
If for some reason you cannot provide a home page but wish
to email your resume remember to send it in Plain text (also called ASCII Text or MS-DOS
Text and recognized by its three letter file extension: .txt), which is
universally accessible and, in many cases, required. The ASCII file is what you submit to
job-related web sites because most word processors can read as well as preserve formatting
of the text only in RTF format.
Type your resume using any word processing application and
then save it as a text only doc, also called Rich Text Format. 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" As an
ASCII text your resume will not recognize special formatting. Do
not send your resume as an attachment as attachments are likely to be deleted without even
opening it due to macro virus threat Don't use a friends email address but create
your own at any of the free email based servers like Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.
site for
sample resumes
