• Describe your job skills in terms of key words that can be scanned, sorted, and retrieved by computer. Information technology companies use a machine to, sort and store resumes in data banks and rank prospective employers.
• Place a paragraph containing key words at the top of the page.
• Capture attention by writing an objective, summary of skills and accomplishments at the beginning of the resume.
• Emphasize your technical skills.
• Skip underlining, bold type or italics since they will not display.
• Choose plain typeface preferably 10 or 12 point.
• Place text flush against the left side of the screen.

• Some job banks: are free yet others charge a small fee of about $20 to post your resume for six months.
• Some job banks will allow you to upload your resume; yet still others require that you fill out their form. You may be assigned an logon and password to get back into the job bank.
• Don't limit yourself to one page. Make the pages scanable.
• Don't focus on a chronology of jobs held.

• Send your resume to an e-mail address or an news group.
• Respond to an ad by fax with numbers or addresses provided on the Internet.
• Post your resume in a database. (You can find a list of job banks by searching Yahoo or Lycos )
• Create a Web page of your own to display your resume.

Shawn's Internet| Resume Center - Lists resumes by profession and charges a fee to post.

Employment Resources on the Net - Directory which lists links to Usenet Groups and Web sites for job seekers.

Career Mosaic - Upload resume in ascii text to database. Offers job listings.

E-Span- classified advertising site that has thousands of job openings. Cross posts job ads to other databases.

Headhunters International- Posts curriculum vitae of academic and other researchers seeking employment.

IntelliMatches - Matches employers and job seekers through on-line database. Converts resume from experience to summary of skills for net.

Information appeared in New York Times, Careers by Sabra Chartrand, 1/7/96