Resume
Posting Help
As a member of the Online Community, you may use the Resume Posting service as a place to find resumes posted by other community members that may fulfill job openings at your business. If you are looking for a job, you may come here to post your resume so it may be viewed by potential employers.
This starting page offers two ways to begin. If you are ready to create your resume, you may click on the Create a Resume Posting link to bring up a form into which you may enter a new posting directly. If you wish to start by searching existing postings (your own or those posted by others), click the Search Resume Postings link to display the Search menu. From either of these forms you may navigate to any other part of the Resume Postings service. However, the Search menu is the best place to start in most cases.
If you wish to send a question or comment to the administrator of the Resume Postings service of the Online Community, click the Feedback link at the bottom of the page. This will start up your email application (e.g., Netscape Mail or Microsoft Outlook) with the "To:" address already set to the administrator's email address, and with the "Subject:" preset with information which will help the administrator to identify the service to which you are responding. [Note: for best results, do not change the "To:" or "Subject:" settings.]
Enter your Feedback message and post it as
you would any other email message.
From this page you may access all Resume Postings functions. Most of these functions require that you first search for and select a particular resume posting.
To search for resume postings, enter the criteria for the desired search and press the Search button at the bottom of the form. If you specify more than one search argument, the search will return only results which meet all of the criteria you specified. For example, if you select "Illinois" from the State/Province drop-down list, the search will return all resumes for job seekers residing in Illinois. If you select "Illinois" after entering "Programmer" in the Current/Prev Job Title field, the search will only return resumes for individuals living in Illinois whose current or previous job title is "Programmer". By selecting multiple search criteria, you refine your search and increase the probability that you will quickly find the postings you want and no others. Be as specific as you can be.
To return only resumes you yourself have created, check the box labeled "Find my postings only." This can be combined with other search criteria to narrow the search if you have created a number of resumes.
As is explained in greater detail below under "Choose Target Audience," you may not be able to locate or view all resume postings. The "Choose Target Audience" function allows the poster of the resume to specify the desired audience to include one or more particular Online Communities and/or one or more geographic areas. If you are not in one of these communities or areas, you will not see the posting.
The owner of a resume is always able to search for, display, modify and delete his/her posting(s).
This page displays the results of a search in summary list form. To display a detailed view of any item in the list, click its Desired Job Title. The Previous Page and Next Page buttons allow you to scroll through lists which are longer than a single page.
If you are not satisfied with the results of a search, or if you have finished viewing all the search results in the list and want to do a new search, click the New Search hyperlink at the very bottom of the page.
When you select a Desired Job Title on the Resume Search Results page, the Resume Posting Detail page will be displayed.
This page displays most of the data for one resume posting. Most sections of the posting have self-explanatory labels.
Certain key pieces of contact information -- email address, for example -- are not shown on this page. To view them, you must click the View Resume With Contact Info hyperlink. This will display the full resume.
To create a resume posting, you must enter all of the information to be included in the resume into this form. If you wish to hide your identity from prospective employers until you know more about them (typically, to make sure you do not inadvertently apply to your present employer), check the box labeled "Hide Contact Information" at the top. If you do so, your name, address, email address, and telephone numbers will be hidden from users who view this posting, even if you have supplied it when creating the resume. A community member who wishes to respond to your resume may still do so using the Respond hyperlink on the Resume Posting Detail page (see above).
It is important to use care in selecting Job Type and Job Title, since these are the primary means by which prospective employers will initially identify applicants of interest to them. Job Type may be thought of as "Industry Sector".
This page permits you to respond online to the individual who posted the resume which you are viewing. You may enter the text of your message in the large text area labeled "Message:". Do not attempt to change the Subject: text, as this helps the poster to know to which posting you are responding.
To respond electronically to the posted
resume ("with contact information"), click the Respond
hyperlink below the posting. This will cause the display of a
form into which you may enter the text of an email message
expressing your interest in the job seeker. The Submit button
sends your email response. When submitted (see
next section), this message will be sent to the poster of the
resume.
To return to the Search Results page, click the Back button of your browser.
A resume posting may only be modified by its owner. Select "Find My Postings Only" on the Search Resume Postings page and your resume profile will be displayed. .
The "Update Resume Posting" page is in most respects identical to the "Create Resume Posting" page (see description above). The most obvious difference is that when this page is first displayed, data for an existing posting is shown rather than an empty form. Note also that two dates are displayed. "Listing Date" is the date the posting was created. "Expiration Date" is the date on which online viewers (except for you, the owner) will no longer be able to view the posting.In the case where the resume was uploaded, a different resume can be uploaded from this page.
If you start to update an existing posting
and then change your mind, you can restore the data to what it
was when you first displayed this "Update" page by
pressing the Reset Form button.
A resume posting may only be deleted by its owner. Start by displaying the posting, then clicking the Delete hyperlink on the "Resume Posting Detail" page. Once deleted, the posting will not be redisplayed. Instead, a new page will appear, confirming that the posting has been deleted.
You can view the details of the resume by clicking the View Resume With Contact Info link.
When you view the details of the resume in the "Resume Posting Detail with Contact Information" page.
Once you have created a resume posting, you need to decide which Online Community users will get to view it. The Targeting page gives you the ability either to permit all users to see your posting or to restrict its visibility to users in selected Online Communities and/or geographic areas. For example, if you do not want to be considered by prospective employers located outside the Los Angeles, CA metropolitan area, select that area in the "Metro" list box and leave all other targeting lists unchanged. (Note: You may target more than one community or geographic area by pressing the "Ctrl" key and selecting the respective communities and/or areas.)
By default, when the Targeting page is first displayed for a new resume posting, the check boxes for "All communities" and "All geographic areas" are preselected. If you press the Submit Targeting Information button without making any changes, the target audience for your posting will be all users in all communities. If you wish to restrict the audience, go to the desired list box and click on each target grouping you wish to add. (When you click the first specific grouping, the "All" check box will be automatically deselected.)
You may select more than one item in any or all of the list boxes. This allows you a great deal of flexibility in selecting your target audience. For example, to target your resume posting to all users who either (a) belong to the Ivy Halls College Community, (b) live in the state of Illinois or Kentucky, or (c) live in the St. Louis, MO metropolitan area, you would select the single entry "Ivy Halls College" from the "Choose Communities" list, select both "Illinois" and "Kentucky" from the "States/Provinces" list, and select the single metropolitan area "St. Louis, Missouri, United States" from the "Metro" list.
Since your resume may be of interest to employers located in a large number of different towns or suburbs located in the same general area, the Targeting page allows targeting by Metropolitan Area rather than by city. If your primary address is located in a suburb of a major city, or in a smaller nearby town or city (even across state lines), in most cases you will achieve best results by targeting the metropolitan area identified with the major city in question. For example, if you live in southern Connecticut, you may want to consider targeting the New York City metropolitan area.
Whereas a metropolitan area may include parts of different states, a region (see the "Region" list box) is a grouping of states, such as "Midwestern United States."