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Resume Builder |
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What is Resume Builder? |
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By logging into Resume Builder, you can submit your resume online, search for jobs and have access to the jobseeker forum. There is no charge to job seekers. To log into our system, you will need a user name and password. If you do not already have a user name and password, click on Create a new account. From the next screen, provide your e-mail address in the blank box and click on Create a new account. You will receive an e-mail message within a few minutes giving your new user name and password. Click on Forgot your user name or password? if you cannot remember these codes. You will be asked to supply your e-mail address so we can send your user name and password to you. Once you have your user name and password, enter this information in the appropriate boxes and click on Login! On the next screen you will see a menu of options to continue.
Your can submit your resume and update personal data. If your wish to send in a comment, click on "contact us". |
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Update Account Info |
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How do I update my Account Info? |
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When your account was originally created, we provided you with a password. If you would like to change your password, enter the password of your choice in the New Password box. Type this same password into the Verify New Password box. You may also change your e-mail address if you wish. Once you have made these changes, enter your old password into the next blank box and click on Submit Changes. If you change your mind on the information you provided, click on Delete Changes. You will receive an e-mail message from us asking you to confirm that you want these changes made to your account. Once you have confirmed these changes, you will be able to log in using your new user name and password. |
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Submit Resume |
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Please enter your contact information: |
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Type your name, address, telephone number, etc. into the blank fields provided. If you would like your resume to remain confidential, you may leave the Name field blank. |
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Are you willing to relocate? |
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Indicate your willingness to relocate for a position and any comments you have in regards to relocation. For example, "Would consider relocating only within the New England area." (Completing questions such as these in the following sections allow for better matches to be found between job seekers and employers.) |
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What kind of job do you want? Please select all that apply. |
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Choose full time, part time, permanent or contract to depict the type of job you require. If more than one option is appropiate, choose all those that apply. |
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What is the minimum income you require? Please complete all that apply. |
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Enter your salary or per hour compensation requirement in the fields provided. (This information is optional.) |
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What is your maximum education level? |
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Select from the pull down menu the term that best describes your highest level of education. |
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Enter a title for your resume. Include a brief summary of your skills and experience: |
Type in a title for your resume that indicates the type of position you are seeking and a few key words describing your skills. For example:
- Senior Mechanical Product Design Engineer (CAD)
- Technical Writer in the Computer Industry
- Sales and Marketing professional - research and development
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Type or paste the body of your resume in plain text or HTML: |
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A text resume can be typed directly into the resume body or cut and pasted
from your word processor. When submitting a text resume, do not use
bolding, italics, underlining, or tabs (use the space bar instead) because these features will not appear correctly online. While a text resume will not have the same "frills" of your hard copy resume, it is a perfectly acceptable method for submitting an online resume. The content (and keywords) you provide will be easily searchable using this method. (In some cases, employers will actually request that you submit your resume as "text only" so that they can electronically "scan" your resume.) HTML If you do want your resume to appear with bolding, italics, etc., you are in luck because this is one of the few career sites that allows you to submit a resume in HTML. If you know how to write HTML code yourself, you can write or cut and paste your resume directly into the resume body. If you do not know how to write HTML, there are many editors (e.g. Microsoft FrontPage Express, Netscape Composer, Microsoft Word "save as HTML") that will make this conversion for you. If you submit your resume in HTML, please note the following helpful hints:
- Be sure that ›HTML> tag appears at the top of your resume (before any text) and <›HTML>> appears at the bottom of your resume (after any text) to let our system know that it has an HTML resume.
- If you include any hyperlinks or images in your resume, they should be
"absolute" - meaning that http://hostname/ is part of the image URL.
References that are "relative" will not appear correctly online.
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Submit this resume now |
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To enter your resume online, click here. Your resume will become immediately searchable by employers once it has been submitted. To make changes to your resume, see how it appears to employers, and track the number of hits your resume has received, go to the View and Manage My Resume page in the Resume Builder menu to continue. |
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How can I write my resume so that employers will notice it? |
Employers generally search for resumes by typing in "keywords." Keywords
are words, terms, phrases, etc. that describe technical and professional
experience. Examples of keywords include UNIX, programmer, SAP,
sales, COBOL, human resources, ORACLE, FORTRAN, marketing,
advertising, etc. When an employer types in advertising (for example) to do a keyword search, all the resumes in the database containing this word will be retrieved for the employer to view. If you have advertising and marketing experience, but only had the word "marketing" in the text of your resume, your resume would not be found. For this reason, it is important to try and think of all the keywords (and their synonyms) that apply to your skills. Think from an employer's perspective. What different words for your industry might an employer type in as a keyword search to find qualified candidates? The more keywords you include in your resume, the greater chance it will be found by an employer. Also, because keywords are so important in online resumes, the action verbs that typically begin statements on a traditional resume become less important. For example, in the statement "Designed and implemented spreadsheets and FORTRAN code for analysis work" probably the only word that an employer doing a keyword search is interested in is FORTRAN. For this reason, you may want to consider focusing your resume on keywords (typically nouns) as opposed to verbs. Finally, an advantage to having an online resume is that you are not limited to the "one page" rule. Resumes on the Internet are often the equivalent of two written pages. |
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View My Resume |
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What is View My Resume? |
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This screen allows you to see how your resume appears online to employers. If you would like to make any changes to your resume, return to the Resume Builder menu and click on Update My Resume. |
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Update My Resume |
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What is Update My Resume? |
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Make any changes to your resume you wish on this screen and click on Submit this resume now to update your changes online. IMPORTANT: If you do not click on the Submit button, your new resume will not appear online. |
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View and Manage My Resume |
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What is View and Manage My Resume? |
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The View and Manage My Resume screen allows you to have complete control over the activity of your resume. View
This option shows you how your resume appears online to employers. Extend Expiration Date
"Extending" your résumé increases your chances of being found quickly by
an employer. Résumés that have not been extended will appear farther down on an employer's search results page. For example, a résumé that was originally submitted online six months ago but has been extended today will be accessed more quickly than a résumé that was submitted two weeks ago but has never been extended. If your résumé has never been extended, it will automatically "expire" after one year and will not be searchable by employers. Expire
"Expiring" your résumé is a way of archiving it on our system. Your expired
résumé will be taken offline so that the employer is unable to search for it. An
expired résumé still remains in our database, however. If in the future you do want your résumé to be searched by the employer,
simply click on Extend to make your résumé appear online. Delete
When you "delete" your résumé, you have taken it completely off our system. If you would like to have a résumé online in the future, you would need to submit it again. |
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