Chapter 16: Electronic Resumes, Portfolios, and Other New Resume Formats

• Electronic Resumes: Why You Need One

• Send Each Employer Two Versions of Your Resume

• Advantages of the E-Resume

• How to Stand Out in ASCII

Electronic Resumes, Portfolios, and Other New Resume Formats (continued)

• Keywords and How to Choose Them– Read the want ads and job postings on the

Internet– Log on to the Occupational Outlook Handbook– Scour trade journals and newspaper articles

in your field

• Putting Together a Master List of Keywords

Electronic Resumes, Portfolios, and Other New Resume Formats (continued)

• Formatting Your E-Resume

• Creating an E-Resume on Your Word Processor

• E-mailing Your Electronic Resume

• Electronic Cover Letters– E-Cover letters must be concise

Electronic Resumes, Portfolios, and Other New Resume Formats (continued)

• The Professional Portfolio—The Resume Companion

• What Should Your Portfolio Contain?

• How to Use Your Portfolio

• The Job Search Portfolio

Electronic Resumes, Portfolios, and Other New Resume Formats (continued)

• Web Resumes: Your Personal Web Page Resume– Advantages of a Web page resume

• Creating a Dedicated Resume Web Site

• Multimedia Resumes