Electronic Resume Format

Technology is advancing in no time and there is always something new in fashion on daily basis. This is how human kind in progressing. With a fast progress, making your mark in the competitive world becomes complex. Especially it is about getting the right job. Getting a right job completely depends on getting your resume rightly formatted. Today's generation believes in fast actions which involves use of technology. When it is about technology and resumes, people have adopted electronic resumes. Let us find out the ways to format the electronic resume.

What are Electronic Resumes

Electronic resumes are the online resumes created for jobs posting on web. Electronic resumes are generally constructed in Microsoft word, PDF (Portable Document Format), ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) and HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) formats. These resumes are made available online which makes them easily accessible and facilitates with quick job search.

Formatting for Emails

Electronic resumes provide resumes to be mailed via electronic mails in which you simply need to send an attachment containing your resume document. This document could be in two following formats.

1. Word Based Resumes

   Resumes are basically drafted in MS word document or can be even written in word pad and notepad. This document is then saved as in doc file type and is attached in the attachment option available on your personal email account.

2. PDF Based Resumes

   PDF format is also used when you have to send your resume through an email. The advantage of this format is that it remains fixed and does not allow any kind of formatting or changing the original layout of the resume. Besides, this format can be accessible on all old operating systems as well. It is considered to be the most portable form of format and so is widely used by the individuals. For drafting your resume in PDF, you would need software called Adobe Acrobat to be installed or downloaded on you computer.

Formatting for Web

You can make your electronic resume easily accessible on web options available other than emails. These web options are company websites and resume posting websites that allows your electronic resumes to be submitted online which helps you get your job matches and you are contacted for an interview round if your resume is short-listed.

1. ASCII format ASCII format is a text-only format which does not permit any kind of formatting. A word format of your resume is saved as text-only file type and this is how the ASCII format is created. You need to open this file in notepad.

2. HTML format HTML is a type of web format which is commonly used by the web browsers to present their web content. Hence, it is the most appropriate form of format to present your electronic resume. You simply need to draft your resume in word format and save the file as web page. This is how your HTML resume format would be created.

Be Careful About Formatting Problems

While formatting your electronic resume, there are some things you have to take care of at first place. Do not use bold headings as it won't appear the same when it is converted in any of the above web formats of the resume. Instead of bold, make use of uppercase option. Make sure of saving your resume copy in plain text or notepad format. You need to bullet your information by using asterisk (*) or addition and minus signs. Making use of actual bullets would not appear the same in ASCII and HTML formats.

Exploit these simple ways to format the electronic resume and make it easily accessible to every employer.