How to Post Resume Online

No matter what the size of the company, small, medium, or large, most companies today have their own websites. Along with a site outlining the company’s products and/or services they will usually have a tab for “careers” or “jobs.” This is a great resource for job seekers.

Along with job openings, many company sites also offer other job search tools such as the ability to submit a résumé for future consideration, create career profiles, search by geography, etc. If you do find a posting for an open position and you would like to know how to post resume online, your first step should be to contact people from you networking list to see if anybody you know is employed by this company or knows someone employed by this company. If you use LinkedIn, you conduct a simple search of people in and out of your network who work for companies you are interested in.

Once you’ve located a company contact, explain that you are interest- ed in a certain position posted on the company’s site and ask if they wouldn’t mind giving your résumé to the HR Department or better yet to the actual person who will be doing the hiring. You may want to give them a short introduction about yourself and your work history and then say something like, “I know that there is an opening for a__________. Would you mind passing my résumé on to ________who will be doing the hiring for this position?” Just to cover all your bases, you might also want to submit your résumé online.

Make sure you follow up with a thank you to your company contact and offer to stay in touch. By taking this type of approach, you will effectually have bypassed the dreaded computer scanner, HR gatekeeper, and maybe a few other HR staff members assigned to weed through the gazillions of résumés. Yes, it will require a little extra effort on your part but it can pay dividends when they consider whom to bring in for interviews.

Remember: When submitting your résumé on company sites, first try to find a contact or advocate on the inside and second make sure your résumé contains the same keywords that are used in the company job description. Résumés submitted online are often scanned for these keywords and documents not containing such keywords may never see human eyes.