Word Documents and Internet Searches

[Hardip]

Hi All

I've created my resume in MS Word 2007. I'm happy with it and ready to
publish it online to recruitment websites.

I was wondering what are the best methods to ensure that when employers or
agents using these websites do a search (against criteria that match my
skills/experience), my resume will be on the results lists.

Presumably it depends on the website and the search technology being used
but are there any good rules to apply or pitfalls to avoid in terms of
structuring, formating and preparing the document for such websites.

Out of interest, do the search functions for these recruitment websites have
the capability to read the content inside the document?

I guess there's no point having a resume that no one can find!

Thanks in advance to all those who reply, and if you want to contact me
direct my email is (e-mail address removed).

Regards, Hardip

 

[Robert M. Franz [RMF]]

Hello Hardip

I've created my resume in MS Word 2007. I'm happy with it and ready to
publish it online to recruitment websites.

I was wondering what are the best methods to ensure that when employers or
agents using these websites do a search (against criteria that match my
skills/experience), my resume will be on the results lists.

[..]

according to my experience with these web sites, they don't search in
DOC/DOCX/PDF (the latter would be my choice of format to upload the CV,
anyway) at all, but rely on the metadata they make you enter when they
allow you to upload the file.

YMMV
Robert

 

[Hardip]

Thanks Robert... So there's no one of tagging my CV then?

Hello Hardip

I've created my resume in MS Word 2007. I'm happy with it and ready to
publish it online to recruitment websites.

I was wondering what are the best methods to ensure that when employers or
agents using these websites do a search (against criteria that match my
skills/experience), my resume will be on the results lists.

[..]

according to my experience with these web sites, they don't search in
DOC/DOCX/PDF (the latter would be my choice of format to upload the CV,
anyway) at all, but rely on the metadata they make you enter when they
allow you to upload the file.

YMMV
Robert
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[Robert M. Franz [RMF]]

Thanks Robert... So there's no one of tagging my CV then?

there are probably numerous ways to tag your document, either the DOC/X
itself or the PDF you want to create from it.

According to a recent post in a German PDF newsgroup, the toolchain Word
+ pdfMaker + Acrobat seems to be a reasonable approach to create tagged
PDFs.

But I would not invest time to do this unless you are absolutely sure
that the metadata thus created is in fact evaluated at all wherever you
upload the file.

2cents
Robert