Resume Websites Have Several Advantages over Traditional Resumes

Why Make A Resume Website?

One of the most important tools available in a job search is a resume. To be effective, your resume should highlight your professional strengths and skills. It needs to be current, attractive, consistent in format, and free of typographical errors. One other very important quality of an effective resume is that it must be accessible. Conventional methods of resume writing and sharing are still valid, but when it comes to creating and sharing resumes, there are real advantages to creating a website specifically to share your resume. Here are a few of them:

It’s Easy!

Many software tools are available to enable people to create websites without using HTML. Usually these software tools are easy and intuitive to use. Here are some of the common features and advantages of many website design software programs:

·    Drop-down menus to make design easier
·    Point and click applications for editing.
·    Templates that create a professional appearance on your site
·    Ability to upload, or copy and paste your resume into the new website
·    Multiple pages on one site so that your cover letter and other relevant items can also be included.
·    Website designs that make it easy for visitors to navigate your site

With the quality of tools available to help you make and publish a website, it’s easy to create a site in a short amount of time.

It’s Cheap!

You can make a new website pretty inexpensively. In fact there are a lot of services that provide free websites. There may be trade-offs, such as mandatory advertisement banners on your site. It’s important that you make sure that the trade-offs will not diminish the quality and appearance of your site. Compared to buying a USB thumb drive for each recipient of your resume, making a website is cheap! Especially when you consider that you could spend several dollars for each thumb drive that you give out.

It’s Accessible!

One of the most significant advantages of making a resume website is that you can share your resume with other people practically anywhere, without having to tote it around with you. Anywhere that you have internet access, you can easily pull up your site on a laptop or tablet. You never have to worry about whether or not the paper ripped or crumbled, or if you have a spare copy with you. If the person is unable to look at your site while they are with you, give him or her a copy of your business card with your web address listed. Get her or his contact information too, and check back with them at a later time to find out what they thought of your site.

It’s Versatile!

Electronic resumes can be much more versatile than hard copy resumes. You can add components to your resume that may otherwise be impractical or impossible, such as:

·    Comments
·    Video
·    Sound
·    Photos

Also because of the versatile nature of a website, you can create a portfolio of your professional work on your site, to add to the information on your resume. Prospective employers can easily click on the portfolio tab and peruse through your work at their leisure. And there is no bulky binder to carry around.

If you are looking for new employment, one of the best things you can do for yourself is to make a resume website. It’s easy, cheap, accessible, and versatile, and can give you the edge you need in your search!

Jason Kay is a website developer and recommends using ResumeWebsite.org to create a free resume website.