Online Resume Format
Post Resume Online
The most common formats to post resume
online are:
ASCII Resume
Do you plan on using your resume on the Internet? If yes,
you will need to create a resume designed for pasting into
web sites and email. Normal resume documents are great for
printing, but they don't work well on the Internet.
ASCII (pronounced "Ask-ee") is a text-only format
without any kind of formatting. It`s the sort of document
you can create with Notepad.ASCII is your best option to post
resume online when you are sure that your resume will
only be read by a computer.
If your online resume will be loaded into
a resume database or an online job-board (such as Monster.com
) you should create an ASCII
resume. All the formatting you painstakingly added to
your resume must be removed before it’s fed to a computer:
while the formatting is a welcome eye-candy” for a human
reader, it becomes confusing noise to a computer database.
Unfortunately, ASCII´s lack of visual appeal can be
a hindrance when image and resume design is important to a
candidate. However - and this is critical - when employers
request an ASCII resume, send them an ASCII
resume and don’t be concerned about its appearance.
Checklist for Posting Resume Online
in ASCII Format
If you are using our resume builder, EasyJob,
you can easily create ascii resumes
by clicking on the "Save as ASCII text", and it
will take care of all the grunt work. Free
download EasyJob Resume Builder demo here and
feel free to skip this part if you are using EasyJob:
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Open your resume with MS Word and save it as "Text
Only". Unlike EasyJob, MS Word will seriously mess
the layout of your resume while saving as text-only. You
will have to fix this manually.
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Close MS Word and open up your resume with Notepad.
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Rearrange the layout of your resume by doing a line-by-line
review. Make sure there are no odd-looking line-breaks,
extra spaces or words squeezed together. You may have
to insert extra lines or commas between text that was
in a table, as all tables and formatting is now gone.
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Insert some standard symbol, such as *, - or + where
there used to be a bullet.
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Curly quotes might also have disappeared, so make sure
all text that should be quoted uses standard, strait quotes.
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Limit the length of your lines to a maximum of 75 characters
per line. Longer lines might be truncated by some software
applications.
When Should You Use an ASCII Online Resume Format?
Use a text-only ASCII resume format if you
want to post your resume online to a job board unless the
job board specifically instructs otherwise. You should use
it also when the employer specifically requests that a resume
be in ASCII format.
Our resume builder, EasyJob, lets you create
a ASCII resume to post online
with a single click and is probably one of the most
affordable applications to create good ASCII resume documents.
EasyJob can also create a PDF resume, HTML
resume, MS Word resume and email
it in a single simple step. Download
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