As technology evolves, you may find the Internet playing a bigger role in your job search. You can use the Internet to find more information about preparing resumes. Or, you may end up e-mailing your resume to a potential employer. The following two sections give more details on each of these possibilities.
Online Resume Resources
There are a number of great resources for resume writing on the Internet.
For information on a number of resume books, check out the JIST Works Web site:
www·jist·com
Purdue University, through its Online Writing Lab, has produced the following site:
http://owl·english·purdue·edu/handouts/pw/index·html
The University at Buffalo has several resume-related publications at the following
address:
www·ub-careers·buffalo·edu/career/student·shtml#job
And the New York State Department of Labor has prepared a publication to help
you with writing an electronic or scannable resume:
www·labor·state·ny·us/working_ny/finding_a_job/career/dinores·htm
E-Mailable Resumes Some organizations will accept your resume via e-mail. If you want to submit your resume in this manner, contact the company and find out if they are able to receive the resume as a file attachment, and if so, what kinds of attachments are acceptable. This way you can send an e-mail message indicating that your resume is attached as a Microsoft Word document, for example, or as a PDF file. If they are able to accept such files, you can be more sure that the resume will be formatted the way that you intended.