preparing your resume for the Internet
is a critical step and applying to jobs
online thankfully it's easier to do than
you may think when applying to some jobs
you can attach your resume to an email
or copy it into a job application and
there's no problem however some
companies don't accept email attachments
due to viruses or compatibility issues
while some job applications may have
trouble displaying your formatted resume
for example when you copy and paste it
into the application there's a chance it
could end up like this
the easiest solution is to create a
plain text version of your resume plain
text is a type of document that removes
all the formatting added by a word
processor and boils everything down to
just the text itself creating a plain
text version of your resume allows it to
be copied and pasted into the body of an
email or job application without fear of
formatting problems plain text is clean
legible and can be understood by almost
any computer system to create a plain
text version of your resume you'll need
to open a simple text editor if you have
Windows you can use the built-in notepad
application or if you have a Mac you can
use the built-in TextEdit so when you
copy and paste your resume into the text
editor it's probably going to look ugly
at first due to the original formatting
take a few moments to clean up the text
delete strange characters and fix any
spacing issues because your formatting
and alignment options are limited you
may have to organize your text in a
different way such as moving a date
range to below the company name even
though you can't add formatting like
font styles or colors you can still
format plain text in its own limited way
to add emphasis to a word consider
capitalizing it however we recommend
only doing this occasionally for lists
consider using hyphens instead of
bullets that way you can still organize
your lists while keeping everything
simple
once you've prepared your resume for the
internet you'll be properly equipped for
the demands of the job search take the
time to get your plain text resume just
right and you'll have a better chance of
getting a potential employers attention
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