Creating Resumes

This section addresses how to create and send resumes based on the portfolio you have created. It includes information on:

• The Resumes Page
• Creating Your Resume
• Viewing Your Resume
• Deleting Your Resume
• Sending Your Resume
• The Sent Resumes Page

The Resumes Page

In order to send out resumes to potential employers based on the portfolio you have created you need to use the resume page. It is found under the [Resumes] link on the menu on the left when you are logged in to the site. If you need help logging in, or in creating an account so that you may log in, see the Account Management page.

The other resume link, on the menu on the left is for later, after you have created and sent out some resumes and want to track what you sent out to whom when.

Creating Your Resume

When you first enter the resume page it will give you a blank work area with a button to create a new resume.

Resumes that you have created will appear below it, but the button will always be there to allow you to create more resumes.

When you click on the Create a Resume button, it will take you to a page asking for a title for the resume. Enter a meaningful title and click Next. The title will not be shared with people you send it out to, so you can make it meaningful to you as opposed to something that will catch an employer's eye. For instance, "Sept 2009 Instructional Positions".

Once you have clicked the Next button, you will be taken to the next page, which is where you can detail what you want in to be included in this resume.

(Note that in this and following sections, personal information such as e-mail addresses and phone numbers have been removed from the images for security purposes. When you are working with the site, you will see the e-mail addresses and phone numbers on your screen.)

There are two fields to put additional text in the resume. One is a personal statement field, and the other is a description of your skills. They are text-only fields.

After that is a listing of each section of the portfolio you have created with checkboxes giving you the option to include or not include them in the resume. You can also include links to videos on an individual basis, so you can decide which videos to include rather than having to include them all.

When you click Save, you will be taken back to the main resume page, which will have a listing of the resumes you have created to date.

Clicking the [Edit] link in the resume listing will get you back to this page to make changes.

Each resume listing will have three links on it:

• Send
• Edit
• View

Edit takes you back to the editing menu. The other two links are discussed below.

Viewing Your Resume

Clicking the Preview button on the edit screen or the [View] link in the resume listing will generate a PDF version of your resume that shows how it will be seen by others to whom you have sent it out.

Depending on your browser, the document may display on the screen or may download, requiring you to open it locally in a PDF viewer (such as Adobe Acrobat). The Adobe Acrobat viewer is a free viewer that exists both as a standalone product and as a Web browser plug in. Most modern browsers have it pre-installed. If you use Adobe Acrobat for development, there may at times be problems with the viewer plug ins, but that is an expert user issue that shouldn't affect novices who just want to view their resume.

Deleting Your Resume

If you want to delete a resume, click on the [Edit] link to open the resume for editing. At the top right corner of the editing screen (right above the big Preview button) there is a link to delete the resume. Click it and confirm the deletion when the dialog box pops up.

Sending Your Resume

To send a resume, click on the [Send] link for that resume in your resume list.

It will take you to a page where you can provide an e-mail address to address the resume to, a space for a subject for the e-mail the system will send, and a text box to write an introductory statement introducing yourself to the person receiving the resume.

What you put into the fields will be sent out as an e-mail to the recipient with your resume included as an attached PDF. You can test it by sending yourself a copy of your resume.

Each time a resume is sent out, the system will generate a unique address for that user to link to your profile. This way the system will know when they have visited your profile. This allows you to track not only what you have sent out, but whether the people you have sent things to have looked at them.

The Sent Resumes Page

Once you have sent out resumes, you can view them on the Sent Resumes page.

Each listing contains the e-mail address of the person the resume was sent to, the date it was sent, the date the recipient viewed it, and a link to the PDF version of the resume so you can see what you sent out.