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This brand new Second Edition of Electronic Resumes & Online Networking shows you how to become Internet savvy to gather information, and to use this information to distribute a resume that gets noticed in a variety of electronic situations.
The constant changes and advancements in technology have opened up many new ways to find the job of your choice. The electronic resume helps you get noticed in an increasingly online job market. Electronic Resumes & Online Networking is written in an easy-to-understand style containing vast amounts of technical data and information concentrated and simplified into the form of useful advice and step-by-step tutorials. Also included are basic techniques, such as:
– How to target employers and their hiring needs.
– How to identify the key skills and abilities needed to fill these jobs.
– How to evaluate all of your resume submission options: electronic messages, electronic forms, Web pages, and many others.
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The Internet has opened many doors for employment opportunities in recent years. Many Websites, job boards, and books have been produced to help people find the jobs they want and to help employers find the people they need. Electronic Resumes & Online Networking by Rebecca Smith is one book job hunters should seriously consider picking up. It will provide plenty of resume writing and job searching assistance. This book is wholly devoted to creating electronic format resumes for posting online. It sets forth important guidelines for them. The author provides detailed instruction on how readers should structure resumes for electronic distribution. The author also spends a good deal of time helping her readers to create their own Web resumes. Web resumes, one of the latest developments in job hunting, allows job seekers to have more control over the way they present themselves to prospective employers. They offer job seekers an excellent opportunity to create online portfolios of their work histories, professional accomplishments, art and photographic work, testimonials, and personal photographs. Web resumes, due to their unique nature, are very economical to create, maintain, and update on a regular basis. Plenty of ideas and examples are provided to get readers started right away! The author includes literally hundreds of Websites, many of which allow readers to apply for work online, some according to their own industry. Other sites offer further assistance in finding employment, creating Websites, obtaining graphic images, and more. An excellent listing of recommended reading materials is provided at the back of the book to offer further assistance in creating resumes, Websites, Web graphics, using e-mail, and learning HTML programming. This book is highly recommended for job seekers who feel comfortable about posting their resumes online. They will have the opportunity to reach a broader number of employers with specially-tailored resumes. Interested persons could also open up their own online resume posting services as well. This book will teach them how!
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The maxim, “Knowledge is power,” comes to mind after reading Rebecca Smith’s book, Electronic Resumes and Online Networking (Career Press, 1999). This book is truly a wealth of information . . . with it, job seekers will be armed with the power to create content-driven Web resumes, negotiate the maze of the Internet, and connect with like-minded job seekers, as well as recruiters and employers. The author is a crack researcher and knows her topic inside and out. This book should be required reading for any job seeker who wants to know how to use the Internet to advance their career! Susan Whitcomb, author of Resume Magic (JIST Works, 1999)
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In a fully updated, revised and expanded second edition, Rebecca Smith’s Electronic Resumes & Online Networking offers the reader the necessary information and techniques for crafting reviews suited to the Internet and targeting employers in terms of their hiring needs; identifying key skill needed to fill a specific job; keeping up with a given profession in discussion forums and virtual communities; creating the perfect electronic resume; the use of keywords and search engine techniques to get a resume noticed; and how to evaluate all the new resume options including electronic messages, electronic forms, web pages, and more. Electronic Resumes & Online Networking is a highly recommended resource for individual job seekers, job counselors, as well employment training and placement center reference collections.
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Finally there is an electronic resume book that explains it all, and then tells how to actually create one! The tutorials are awesome, and I’m already using the book as a regular reference.
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This is an excellent book filled with online career strategies and resources. The author provides innovative ideas and a structured approach to developing an online resume and organized job search. The book is easy to read and understand and uses common comparisons for better comprehension of the internet functions. The author explains how to find thousands of job listings through search engines, media sites, job boards and virtual job fairs using resources available by simply logging on with any web browser. Plus there are several sections dedicated to developing traditional, text and HTML resumes, creating keyword summaries, filling in e-forms, posting resumes to corporate data bases and using search agents/scouts. The author even explains how to insure that the cover letter and resume sent via e-mail looks the same to the receiver as it does to the sender.The numerous lists of metajob boards and industry-specific job boards, directories, industry news resources, discussion forums, newsgroups, mailing lists and research tools makes this book a worthwhile investment for anyone pursuing a career. This book will definitely expand your knowledge of this new trend which is rapidly revolutionizing the world.