Bonus Report! How to Create a Keyword/ASCII Résumé

Once you've written a resume using your favorite word processing program, it's very easy to convert it to a keyword format, for use on the Internet.

You can do two important things with your keyword resume:

Send it by e-mail to employers who have requested your resume.

Upload it to employment Web sites, where it can be seen by employers and recruiters around the world (a list of these sites is given below).

To create a keyword resume, follow these directions:

- Open your original resume in your word processor;

- Save the resume as text only; this will turn it into a plain text (ASCII) format, suitable for use on the Internet. Now close the document;

- Open it up again and add a keyword section. Put this section of keywords at the bottom of your document.



Example keywords: manager, managing, management, BS Computer Science, mainframes, programming, programmer.

You want to include any and all nouns that might be relevant to your skills, experience and the job you seek. With a keyword resume, space is not an issue, since it's rarely printed. So feel free to be exhaustive when listing keywords -- the more you include, the better your chances of popping up when an employer or recruiter searches a database of resumes!

Now, here's how to upload your keyword resume to some of the best employment sites on the Internet. Your resume will then be available to thousands of recruiters and employers!

Follow the directions at each site to copy and paste the text of your keyword resume into their résumé databases. Point your Web browser to:

http://www.CollegeRecruiter.com

http://www.flipdog.com

http://www.hotjobs.com

http://www.headhunter.net

http://www.recruitersonline.com (click on Job Seekers)

http://www.mrinet.com (click on Resume Resources)

http://www.monster.com (click on Resume)

http://www.joboptions.com (click on Post Your Resume)

You'll have to create a user account at each site, but there's no charge for this. Just follow the instructions at each site and your résumé will be online in minutes.

If you'd like to completely automate this process, you can

email your resume to as many as 3,650 targeted employers and recruiters, and

post your resume at 10 major resume Web sites (saving you a lot of time and hassle)

How? Just click on http://www.resumecyclone.com

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