How to Build an Effective Online R

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How to Build an Effective Online Résumé

• Brought to you by
• Micah Johnson of GigTide
• and
• Lisa Mauri Thomas of Change Your Job, Change Your
  Life

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Effective Résumés

• In general
• Eye-catching yet keyword-searchable
• Relevant to your goal
• Capture past experience with an eye on the future
• Easy to read, follow and digest quickly

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Getting Started

• Its EASY!
• Go to www.gigtide.com
• Create your account
• Build your résumé

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GigTide homepage
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Create an account
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The actual Builder area
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Work in progress..
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http//gigtide.com/lisamthomas/SLA-SD
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What Makes It Effective?

• Resume tracking analytics to manage your job
  search
• Employers contact you directly through your
  résumé
• Track multiple versions in one place
• Highly flexible and portable
• Automatically converts to Word and .pdf formats
  for use across all mediums
• Each resume comes with unique URL link
• Edit and customize on-the-fly
• Never get boxed in as with other templates
• Social networking integration
• Stand-alone look and feel, not cookie-cutter

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Peace of Mind

• Send Lisa your résumé and information about the
  job you want (posting, job description, etc) for
  a targeted critique
• Overall impression it gives
• Relevance of your document to your career field
• Overall strength to its goal
• Level of support each section brings to your
  whole document
• Strength of words and phrases in use
• Spelling errors, grammatical errors
• Overall page layout and formatting
• Suggestions for improvement of all of the above
• Final tips from a human resources/hiring manager
  perspective
• Job search tips FREE Guide with Critique
  purchase

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Create an account
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Thank You!

• In appreciation for your time and consideration
• 60 days free, full membership GigTide Online
  Résumé Builder
• Well send you the code by email
• (and the sample Librarian résumé to view)
• After 60 days, continue your membership for just
  5 per month.
• PLUS free Job Search Strategies Guidewith a 29
  Resume Critique purchase

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Thank You!

• We welcome your referrals!