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electronic resume writing

Nowadays, you will find that more and more employers are requesting for electronic (or email) resumes to be sent to them instead of physical resumes. The reasons for that are:

  • It help saves the environment.
  • It saves time, as it is easier to scan through electronic resumes on the pc.
  • It makes it ever easier to trash your resume, a simple click on the delete button will do nicely.

Harsh as it seems, the electronic form of resumes have become more and more popular with the hiring employers. But do not worry too much, because you can easily take your existing resume and reformat it for electronic sub­mission. Here are some quick guidelines for doing so:

  1. Cut and paste your resume text into a new file in your word processor.
  2. Eliminate any graphic elements such as lines or images.
  3. Limit your margins to no more than 65 characters wide.
  4. Use an easy-to-scan font, such as Courier, Arial, Helvetica or Times Roman. Eliminate bold, italic, and other font styles.
  5. Introduce major sections with words in all uppercase letters, rather than in bold or a different font.
  6. Keep all text aligned to the left and eliminate centering, unless you use the space key to do so.
  7. Instead of using bullets, use a standard keyboard character such as the asterisk.
  8. Instead of using the tab key or paragraph indents, use the space key to indent.
  9. When done, click the File menu, choose the Save As command, and select the Plain Text, ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), or Text Only option. Then name the file and click Save or OK. Then reopen the file to see how it looks. Make additional format changes as needed.

While this may undermine your creative side, it can be very good if you do it right. Try to take satisfaction from that thought, OK?