The Internet Has Parts of Your New Resume (and You Might Not Even Know It!)

Thanks to the internet age, we have an abundance of information at our fingertips. You may be using this internet's  wealth of information to figure out how to properly poach an egg in the microwave at am or to see what your friends,family and complete strangers are up to. It's easy to get lost searching! It's as easy as typing into Google!

Seeing as finding information on the internet is so easy it's not surprise that employers look up their interview candidates too. According to Richard Bolles, in What Color Is Your Parachute, 91% of U.S. employers have visited a job hunters profile on social networks and 69% rejected a candidate based on their discoveries.

This being said, it is important to maintain an online presences that is up to date. LinkedIn is an important site to keep a digital resume. Through a LinkedIn profile, besides just having a photo, job title, past job experience, a summary, and experiences listed you can add more to resume without page  limits! One can link to project sites, blogs, forums, twitter (if it is professional), and YouTube videos within one's expertise. Friendly reminder, your online presence should show who you are, but also remain professional.

Although having an online resume sounds great, it is still important to have a traditional resume. Traditional resumes are not dinosaurs. They are still regularly used, but your online presense can supplement a traditional resume.

Your traditional resume should include segments such as:

• Volunteer, community, and unpaid work
• Education
• Administration, customer service, and accounts
• Responsibilities taken on
• Event planning and management experience
• Memberships
• Technology experience
• Published or presented works

There are not official rules for a resume. The goal is to persuade the person that wants to hire you, to invite you in based on an appealing resume.  Some companies even post resumes of their employees to give an idea of what future employees should expect.

Your best shot of finding a job is writing your resume and sending it out into the world. So, embrace having both an online presence, an online resume, and a traditional resume. To find a job, you're marketing yourself, your skills, and your ideas and with today's standards that involves marketing yourself in few different ways.