Online Resume? Email Resume? Paper Copy?
I’m just about to tell you to sit down at your computer and begin writing. The next couple of posts will tell you how to write a resume, line-by-line.
But first, let’s be clear. What we are going to be putting together is the main resume. The resume you will print out and take to the interview.
There are other ways to send in a resume, of course. You can email it. You can cut and paste it into online forms on Monster or whatever. But all these different types of resumes will be based off your main resume. At some point in the process, you will be sitting down with a real person for a real interview, and you will want to hand the hiring manager a real, tangible piece of paper. This is what we will be working on.
We’ll get to the other submission formats at the end of this guide. But for now, we are working on the main, master copy of your resume that everything you do will be based on.
So, if you’re ready, fire up good old Microsoft Word and let’s get started…