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You will find that many online job database sites and many job descriptions that are posted by employers include specific instructions for formatting your electronic résumé.( check back in the “Posting a Job Opening” section for the steps that Boeing includes for submitting an electronic résumé.)

Some online résumé databases give you the choice of submitting your résumé as plain text or as a Web page (in HTML). We suggest that you create and save your résumé as straight text and then save another version that is converted to HTML. In many word-processing programs, such as Microsoft Word, doing so is easy.

A plain text résumé is different from a résumé that has been formatted in a word processing program and saved in that program’s format. A plain-text résumé is an ASCII file. It looks much as if it were typed on a typewriter and contains no tabs, no italics, no boldface, no special paragraph indentions, and so on.

Why do you need to create such a plain-looking document when you have so many tools and so many ways to pretty it up these days? Because virtually every software program ever created can read an ASCII file.

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