An HTML Resume – What Is It?

Posted by HTML Resume Admin under HTML Resume, Online Portfolio, Online Resume, Web Ready Resumes

Whether you’re out of work, looking to establish your credentials as a freelancer, or just looking to change jobs, an HTML Resume should be another tool in your job-search arsenal.

Most folks don’t see the hiring process as a “sales process” and the fact is… that’s exactly what it is. You’re literally selling the value you provide to each potential employer who sees your resume. Your resume is your foot in the door for potential career opportunities.

Many job seekers are creating web-ready online resumes and portfolios to increase their chances of being discovered or as a place to refer an employer who might want to see more than what is usually found in a resume.

If you’re not already familiar with HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), it’s basically a programming language used to make web pages that are hosted online.

Hosting your resume online offers these unique benefits:

• You can easily email a link to it to potential employers
• It’s online and working for you 24/7
• It’s easily bookmarked and shared by anyone who stumbles onto it
• It sets you apart from all the other people who are still using old-fashioned paper resumes
• It can be printed out and kept for later viewing by a potential employer

Even if you’re not a “techie”, building your first html resume is not as difficult as it sounds — HTML is relatively easy to understand and simple to learn fast. And if you were to build an online resume from scratch, you’d only need to know just a few codes to create something presentable enough to get you a job.

There’s 2 Different Flavors of HTML Resume

The most basic and widely used type of HTML Resume would be a 1 Page HTML Resume. These are as simple as they sound — just picture your paper resume on your computer screen. That’s all it really is.

Anybody could design one of these in a day and have it online almost immediately.

However, in an online resume, you’re not limited by space — you could build an entire website dedicated to different projects you’ve worked on and have separate sections for each.

You could simply upload your resume as part of your website and enable your clients to learn more about you and your work.

Even better: An HTML version of your resume works particularly well for persons in the visual arts or programming — it’s like a one-two punch where you list your experience… and back it up by showing your skill by linking to it.

HTML formatting truly benefits those who need more of a visually-oriented portfolio, but it could serve anyone, provided it is done right.

With an Online Portfolio Resume, you can include photographs, links to other Web sites, design/layout graphics, streaming video, and just about anything you’ve seen on other internet sites.

This kind of resume is especially useful for self-employed contractors who work on a project by project basis.

And now you know what an HTML Resume and Online Portfolio is. Later on we’ll get into how you’ll use one.