Re: resume on a web page

["Tony G. Rocco" <trocco -at- NAVIS -dot- COM>]

It seems to me a stroke of genius that you could simply send the same email
message to, say, 20 recruiters or employers. In the message, introduce
yourself, describe the work you are looking for, etc., then simply include
the URL to your web site resume. The recruiter or employer can go
immediately to the resume, view it, and print it out if necessary. No muss,
no fuss, no attached files that can't be de-binhexed, and so forth.

Anybody do this sort of thing?

- tgr

At 12:12 PM -0500 11/5/97, John Posada (work account) wrote:


>Tanya Reece wrote:
>>
>> I am an English graduate student thinking about doing contracting technical
>> writing part-time soon and full-time after graduation.  How effective is
>> having your resume on a web page?
>>
>
>Tanya...how effective is your resume regardless of the medium?
>
>Seriously...I just went through a three week search for the perfect
>contract (and found it, and trust me, I talked to alot of frogs).
>During that period, I was getting calls from 3-8 agencies per day,
>almost every day (thank you Internet).  I posted my asci resume on the
>net and almost without exception, an agency would eventually ask for a
>formatted version.  I would tell them that I could fax it, send it as a
>Word attachment, or they could go to my web url for the formatted
>resume.  If I had to guess, it was probably 33%/33%/33% for requesting
>each of the alternatives.
>
>You could have it out there without any link to it and to get to it,
>they would have to get the url from you (What's the secret password? -
>Joe sent me)
>
>If done correctly, it will look just as good as on paper...unless yours
>looks poorly on paper (grin).  See mine.
>http://www.tdandw.com/resume.html
>
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