Internet: Posting Your Résumé and Creating an Electronic Cover Letter
Posting Your Résumé
Where you post your résumé is up to you. You can start by taking a look at all the recruiting Web sites we mentioned in the first part. Naturally, you can post your résumé at any of these sites. Most are free, but some are fee-based. As is the case with many employment agencies or headhunters, employers pay to list their job openings, but job candidates do not.
How you post your résumé depends on the requirements at the site. As we mentioned earlier, Monster.com requires that you fill out an online form, which becomes your résumé. At other sites, you can submit a straight-text résumé, which we described in the previous section. Follow the instructions at the site.
Creating an Electronic Cover Letter
In the not-too-distant past, a cover letter was considered essential to the résumé-submission process. They were assumed to be a way of personalizing a query about a specific position, and job seekers spent many hours composing and formatting them. Little did they know that managers such as ourselves, facing a stack of hundreds of résumés, flipped straight past almost all cover letters and scanned the résumé for essential skills and experience.
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