Week 4: Put up your resume in HTML and PDF formats
Apologies for the delay, folks, but after a bit of a holiday break, I’m back. This post is the fourth in a weekly series that will take journalists through how to set up a professional-looking portfolio Web site. Find out more about the series and read the first, second and third posts if you missed them. Check back next week for more.
For this week’s task, we’re going for focus on resumes – both in HTML and PDF forms.
We’re doing this for a couple reasons. We want to make it easy for a recruiter to do two things:
- Scan your resume on your actual site
- Download a copy of it and print it out
And since we’re going to take the time to do this, it’s a good idea to give that resume a bit of a facelift if it needs one. (I’ve found it’s convenient to do this now, rather than in the fall when you’re under a deadline crunch for internship applications.)
Part 1: Give your resume a facelift
So, here are some tips via Twitter.
1. Ditch the Word template, go into InDesign
Lauren Rabaino (@laurenrabaino) said:
Don’t use a word template. Show you know a liitle Photoshop/indesign … http://is.gd/18A5w
Andrew Spittle (@andrewspittle) had a similar message:
Do: create something personal, something yours. Dont: just use an out of the box look that hundreds of others are using.
I totally agree. If you have access to InDesign, it can really add a visual punch to the design of your resume. (If you’re stuck with Word, at least do some minor tweaks.)
It can also help you fit more information on without making your resume look cluttered.
Lauren’s blog post has some great examples of resumes with a bit of flair, but not so much that it gets out of hand.
This blog post also has examples of some tastefully designed resumes. (Straying too far into Crazytown can land your … um, “artistic”? … resume in a recruiter’s trash can, so don’t get too wild.)
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