With the thousands and thousands of new graduates in the job market, the competition for those available jobs is fierce. One needs every competitive edge possible. An essential is a good résumé and, in many cases, it is an e-résumé.

Eric Presley, writing for careerbuilder.com, has put together an essential guideline for an effective e-résumé:

“…Electronic résumés are plain text or HTML documents, which can also be included in the body of an e-mail for job applications online.

It may not be as attractive as your word-formatted résumé in all its bulleted, bold-text, fancy-font glory, but it gets the job done.”

link: An e-friendly résumé in 5 easy steps

Remember all those things that people told you about making a good first impression. In the electronic age, the first task is to stop the reader from hitting that ‘delete’ button. These suggestions will help.

Catherine Forsythe
Director of Operations
FlyingHamster: http://flyinghamster.com/

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